"why hasn't it happened?" Who says it hasn't? To some extent, it has. Interest groups and clubs of all sorts already exist, and non-university-affiliated sport

"why hasn't it happened?" Who says it hasn't? To some extent, it has. Interest groups and clubs of all sorts already exist, and non-university-affiliated sports are already pervasive. But the rest of the answer is why I was talking about "what would exist if the universities didn't". Right now, the unis are sucking up a lot of the oxygen in that space. But it's a mistake to think that if they stop doing it, it will all disappear. It may partially disappear, but it will most assuredly not all disappear. There will be places where young people congregate. There will be roommates. There will be interests that emerge and get organized. Existing sports leagues can expand. If the demand exists, supply will appear. It doesn't even have to start from scratch, there's plenty of non-University resources that could simply expand to meet the demand. And the resulting system probably won't put you into decades of crippling debt. For that matter, have a chat with some of your school acquaintances that didn't go to university. You may find their lives aren't as horribly impoverished as you thought. There's also a bit of a false mental image that the choice is either the shining lawn and conspicuously happy people in the university or the darkness where lightning flashes and a grim factory job from which there is no respite, and in reality the choices are not even remotely that stark. In both cases, a lot of it is what you make of it. And, you know, you'd best hope universities aren't some sort of unique fount of such activities and joys, because you will be joining the rest of us in the non-university world after graduation, you know. It isn't actually that horrid or bereft of opportunities.