@marlowe1 I don’t think you’ll have to worry about it. In fact, I predict that in my lifetime high-dollar-Division I athletics will become less sustainable. I’m working now and don’t want to search the NCAA database, but the latest report I saw shows a great number of Division I programs are cash negative (spend more than they make). And then, when you look at things like the Penn State scandal, the recent Maryland Scandal, and the biggest is the Shoe Company Scandal in NCAA Div. I Basketball, something will give. I think the rest of the university sports machine will begin to approach the DIII model.
I do believe that UChicago does sports the right way. My son tells me that everyone on the XC and T&F team is first and formost focused on their education. Sure they love the competition, but they love more the UChicago pursuit of knowledge. He has already picked out his apartment mates for the next three years and they inherited their apartment from four XC/T&F seniors. It is almost more like a Fraternity than a sports team.