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I have to laugh at this entire thread. E-sports has been around for many years. SU is way behind the 8 ball on this. My son has been in the video game business for years. I watched e-sports tournaments with him at least 15 years ago. His company at one point made most of the esports games. During COVID he did a lot of work to make the esports games remote.
I'm happy for his success- but nothing you've described required a college campus to accomplish or explains how an esports team benefits the university in anyway.
 
Super stupid question but serious one. Why would you pay $80K a year to attend SU to major in playing video games when you can practice all you want for free at home and get really good at them.
Scholarship athletes
 
I'm happy for his success- but nothing you've described required a college campus to accomplish or explains how an esports team benefits the university in anyway.
How does a marching band benefit the school? Or cheerleaders?
 
School spirit is actually insanely beneficial to a student's education and development.
Bull. The vast majority of SU students don’t care about the sports teams. By your logic I could surmise that MIT must have a great band and cheerleaders.
 
sports is absolutely part of the business model. football programs are the largest revenue generators of power five programs. basketball is second, but there's a big delta.

There's a reason why football coaches are the highest paid state employees in many states

i agree that sports shouldn't be the mission of the university, but they can generate revenue and attention to support that mission. Esports neither supports the mission more than any other sport or provides the revenue that other sports- say rowing, lacrosse, field hockey, or soccer - could.
There are other similar articles as well, but all say the same; most schools lose money to athletics. In this article, it is to the tune of $16 million per school on average. It suggests that only about 25 schools make any money on athletics, and that’s about $7 million on average. I guess you’re right about it being part of the business model, they have to plan in how to overcome the loss. I never argued that they don’t bring attention, but the revenue side is slim pickings.

 
all schools lost money on sports for about 75 yrs and no one seemed to care.

The biggest difference is the costs went way up to support it.
 
There's nothing I enjoy more than guys posting on the internet about a college football team calling other people nerds.

Look in the mirror, assuming there's one in your mom's basement. Dorks.
 

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