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Originally Posted by Shipping up to Boston
No backtracking.....doubling down. Again, other than the taxpayer.....at what i’ll concede is the larger, successful, state D1 programs. If you want to go down every other line item for every other academic dept as to receipts, awards, or finds....that’s for another thread. The ‘economic engine’ is not just the revenue discussed but the undisclosed and untold millions that those events, tv deals and exposure do for the universities as a whole. You don’t get it....right or wrong on priority, they’re not spending millions to see a Lego project or a lava volcano project. They’re renting cars, eating at restaurants and buying tickets to games that national media wants to cover. By doing so, at least on that Saturday, your campus is the center of the universe to millions. Everybody benefits. You may not like it....but it’s a fact!
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I'm not going to get in the middle of this debate, however, I would like to point out that the physics departments of major universities might be studying supersymmetry, M string theory or loop quantum gravity but not playing with Legos or lava volcano models.