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You're assuming that the ROI generated by football isn't a transfer from other universities who lose students to the spending uni. More likely, funding football
by dash2 10y ago
You're assuming that the ROI generated by football isn't a transfer from other universities who lose students to the spending uni. More likely, funding football is a zero sum game which generates no overall benefit for the research community.
- MichaelBurge 10y agoThat's what I said in my second sentence.
- gohrt 10y agoYou think that football game attendees (and T-shirt buyers, and...) would write checks to math researchers if football got cancelled?