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Your causation is completely backwards. By your logic, since sports = great academics, University of Alabama is a vastly superior school to Harvard. You act a

• 001sky 13y ago
  The causation is that sports originated in "elite" schools with "elite" academics. Other schools imitated the elite schools, and introduced sports as a result. If the quality of schools associated with sports has declined, that is a function of this second-order process. It would be interesting if sports made the originating schools were performers academically, but that is not the case. The British Public schools that made sport central to their programs remained among the most elite academically for 150 years after there introduction. Sports are good, but I agree: get them the fuck out of academic institutions. They have no place there. To simplify this point, sports were created by students. That is the origin of their place in schools. These schools, were british colleges (ie, high schools), not universities. Your contention that they have "no place" in high school is historically mis-guided. The theory that sports are only identified with sub-par academic performance is also mis-guided. Sports originated in the highest-tier of Academic performance institutions. The reputations of those institutions onlly increased, as did those of their graduates, for a long time after the introduction of sports. Under your theory, their performance should have declined.