Harvard newspaper doesn't want a 4th sorority

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

I won't disagree that the college sports world is broken, I just suspect I disagree on WHY it is broken. I don't know when sports went from a (healthy) fun, sporting activity to a money-maker for schools but I see it as a serious problem and a primary reason for a lot of the continuing inequality (or desired inequality) in mens and womens sports teams.

I'd probably argue that it doesn't much matter, since that particular genie is out of the bottle, but that's neither here nor there.

But you'd have to go more indepth on what you mean by haves and have-nots for me to follow what you're suggesting.

I mean it in a very literal sense: Texas football brings in much more money than U of Pacific basketball. UCONN women's basketball brings in much more money than Minnesota-Duluth volleyball. Many of these top programs are completely self-sufficient and receive no outside federal funding - those are the "haves", the lucky few with a constant income stream for their particular sport. The rules, which did not envision this situation, have not evolved at all.