Roger Dodger wrote:

And what of the money flushed down the basketball hoops and
football goalposts of schools, that could instead be spend on
labs and libraries?

This is one of my favorite sore pointz: taking a bunch of
IQ-75 DAFNz into the major universities, calling them "students"
merely for the purpose of having good football/basketball teams.
They all get "tutors" to do their homework and term paperz.

Because such good teams hype the alumni, get them donating lots
of money to the alma mater, that'z why. Ditto paying the coaches
five times as much as the president of the university, or dean of
the medical school. Absolutely disgraceful.

It'z academic prosititution, makes money so it'z OK.

Universities are about INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT AND ACCOMPLISHMENT.
If *MONEY* is what they are after, why not just open a casino and
whorehouse next to the campus and make some Really_Big_Money
while keeping the school academically and intellectually pure.

The last University of Washington entering freshman class
(4500 students), after the the recently-passed state law
eliminating racial preferences, had only 138 DAFNz.
Just about enough to re-stock the teamz for those IQ-75 "studentz"
who had used up their athletic eligibility...