<p>Sorry, but I can’t buy into this. The author compares Ivy league schools with undergraduate populations of 4000-8000 to PAC10 schools… with populations significantly larger: Washington, 31000… UCLA 26000… CAL 24000… Arizona, 28000 or Arizona State, 36000. Even Michigan, 25000.</p>
<p>If an institution is going to field teams, lets say… oh… football, they need to have enough players to play. Offense… defense… etc. Really. Just because you are an Ivy that does NOT allow the school to base team size on undergraduate size. 7 person football teams don’t cut it. 3 player baseball teams are… rare. 2 man basketball?</p>
<p>It’s hardly a surprise that if a school wants to field teams with a student body 1/10th to 1/4 the size of “PAC10 schools” that the percentage is higher. Sorry, but this appears to be a non-story, much ado about nothing.</p>