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Where does it say any of that?
Nowhere. It could also didn't say (but could have said) any school that participates in the Greek system is just a party network that occasionally gives degrees.
I don't like sports or Greek stuff but I don't like downplaying the quality of academics of an institution even more than that. Lots of us gave a decade or more to the academic parts of those places and it is shitty to write it off as an afterthought to sports or frats or whatever. It tastes bad to read shit like this after paying more student loans than the cost of the house of the person tweeting it, you know?
I get you but frats are not a great comparison considering they don't suck funding out of schools in exchange for .... entertainment you have to pay a second time for.
It might taste bad for you but how about the students in underfunded programs due to the leeching of athletics? They paid to go to a place of learning and there are only so many seats, which are being reduced to fund.... a useless activity. Before you jump on the well rounded individual thing, intramural sports are what most students would have access to and do not require the massive amount of spending that collegiate sports require so it's not a benefit for the rest of the student population. Why should they be required to hold their tongue because it gives you a bad taste?
Where I went the funding pools were entirely separate. Sports pays for sports stuff (buildings, staff, recruitment, etc. and does some endowment stuff additionally) and the academic stuff comes from tuition and academic grants. Sports drives name recognition and also boosts enrollment rates.
Its bad for parking, but it's just how business works. Maybe if we were in a country that funded higher ed this wouldn't be a problem, but we don't have any pure universities outside maybe some community colleges.