What do you suppose separating it from academic institutions is going to do? The culture of sports will still be there. You can't hack away basic human nature a

What do you suppose separating it from academic institutions is going to do? The culture of sports will still be there. You can't hack away basic human nature and seeking social status through acts of physical strength has been part of human nature for thousands, if not millions, of years. All it's going to do is further the class divide. For example, I played football in HS. It greatly improved my social status in school and allowed me to enjoy most of my 4 years of high school. The previous 6 years of schooling was marked with physical abuse because I was a fat geek. Football changed all that and provided my fellow geek friends some protection as well. I would not have been able to play had football been privatized. My parents didn't have a lot of money, we couldn't buy pads like the hockey players did. At my school, hockey wasn't a school sport. Too expensive. As a result, the hockey players were even more popular than the football players at my school because there were so few of them.