Music vs. Athletics

mia305
Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:02:38 +0000

cellardweller: With all due respect, it appears that you dont know much about sports. To reiterate, you cannot field a full complement of DIII teams by relying solely on walk-ons. What if no kids enroll who have and can play quaterback, running back, point guard, second base, hockey goalie, etc? You cant compete even on the DIII level by fielding a team of people who have never played the sport. In DIII you can fill in with unskilled people in some instances, sure. But you need to have your key positions covered through recruiting. That’s alot of people. Obviously, at MIT these recruits have to be academically qualified. it’s not like D1, or even some Ivies, where there is a great disparity between the stats of the athletes viz the non-athletes. and there is a separate admissions tract. However, the point remains that MIT takes a great deal of pride in the number of teams it fields and has to fill them. It certainly helps in admissions if your application is being supported by the athletic department. There is a tendency by some to diminish the importance of sport at a school as a way of establishing the school’s academic credentials. That is misguided. MIT manages to do both.