MIT Cuts 8 Sports Teams In Order To Save Money

New York Times:

High school students with dreams of competing in alpine skiing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, beware: when this academic year ends, the institute will no longer have a varsity team.

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Comments

[loki]

10:21 PM on 04/25/2009

I applaud you MIT. Most schools cut education and the arts to support sports, which usually only produces more egotistical dimwitted greedy selfish jocks than well rounded competitive individuals.

[GoodFeathers]

09:11 PM on 04/25/2009

Screw sports! Well done MIT.

[BobinPgh]

09:10 PM on 04/25/2009

Why not cut swimming? Speedos and HTH are really expensive.

[SOLERSO68]

08:43 PM on 04/25/2009

college sports are a club activity that got WAAAAAAAAAAY out of hand. i think the NFL and NBA and their broadcast network partners should have to pay into a fund that goes to NCAA schools, that field teams in those sports. federal and state money is subsidising pro farm systems for those leagues. enough already.

[SOLERSO68]

08:37 PM on 04/25/2009

Oh jeezus criminy they dropped the varsity "pistol squad" whats next? the competative eating team?!!! womens water frisbee?? ohhhhh the humanity...

[joebhed]

08:17 PM on 04/25/2009

I guess high finance isn't rocket science.

[plages]

08:12 PM on 04/25/2009

And what do the professors rake in?

[mountainweb]

05:26 PM on 04/25/2009

Wow, this article gives the MIT intermural sports programs 100% more exposure than they have had for the last 4-5 years! Will be funny if they find out they only have 4 teams!

[J G H]

04:39 PM on 04/25/2009

Like others, I was uunaware that MIT had intermural sports programs. I doubt that giving up the sports will cause a serious dent in applicants to one of the most competitive schools in the country. Although if they see significant financial benefits from giving up pistol and golf, they must be hurting badly.

[WasteNJ]

04:00 PM on 04/25/2009

I thought geeks hated sports.

[Atheia]

02:45 PM on 04/25/2009

Lets be honest here, how here actually knew MIT had sport teams before reading this article?

[sisterdebmac]

02:57 PM on 04/25/2009

You stole my comment. Heh.

[davism97]

03:57 PM on 04/25/2009

Of course they have sports teams. The students don't actually play though. They build robots to do all the physical stuff for them.

[Mondayboy]

02:35 PM on 04/25/2009

Great, MIT has never existed for sports. There is a state of the art gym where every student can exercise and keep fit. If you want to be a professional athlete, MIT is not the place for you. This is the place for science and technology. This is not the school to prepare people who are going to entertain people with their athletic ability.

I am proud of MIT's admin for making this decision. It is long overdue.

[davism97]

03:59 PM on 04/25/2009

It's too bad sports gets all the glory at other universities though. If only research could bring in that kinda money ...

[SOLERSO68]

08:38 PM on 04/25/2009

LOL your joking right?

[plaidlemur]

02:11 PM on 04/25/2009

Thankfully, quidditch is to remain a varsity sport, and will see a dramatic increase in funding.

[BowlingForRevenge]

02:46 PM on 04/25/2009

Sales on the Cleansweep and Nimbus line are off the charts!!!!
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