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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 4154109, member: 364"] Phony There's nothing about this uniquely American concept of College Sports that will ever return to Teddy Roosevelt think. WE made this monster. Us. Buying the jerseys and wearing the colors. In the smelly locker rooms I remember when my Dad was coaching to the MSG Big East tourney, there really doesn't have to be college sports; except that it makes the whole damn University thing more of a great rite of passage learning experience and holds graduates into their clubby ties for a lifetime. You cannot put a value on what has happened. In a World where America competes with rising strength powers, the fact that [B][I][SIZE=5]29[/SIZE][/I][/B] of the top 50 World Universities are a American comparative advantage. It ain't all MIT & Chicago. Many many are the Public LandGrant Universities that are more powerful than ever. And I would opine that the SPORT component is glue for lots of other things that make these places special. [/QUOTE]