Silver Maple
Postdoc
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Loc: Westfield, New Jersey
Reg: 11-23-04
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03-26-24 09:24 PM - Post#366575
In response to GoQuakersGo
Engineering and business student entrepreneurship projects aren't a huge spectator sport that brings in massive TV money and is the source of billions in sports betting. So I don't think there's all that much incentive for anything beyond minor corruption (not that that's a good thing).
However, pursuing success in what intercollegiate athletics has now become brings the risk of all sorts of scandals: recruiting, academic, point shaving, player misconduct, financial shenanigans and so forth. And there's very little the universities can do to mitigate these risks, as so much of the NIL money will likely be outside their control. What's more, the potential rewards are dwarfed by the risks. There's not that much revenue that an Ivy is ever going to generate (particularly when you consider how wealthy these universities are already), and the institutions certainly don't need the publicity that sports success can bring-- these are eight of the most high-profile institutions of higher learning in the world.
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