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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2169747, member: 6911"] One has to wonder why a college like Rice (it was, really, a small liberal arts college) is so obsessed with major college sports? Even with close to 4k students, it's still pretty small. Keep in mind that a full D-1 male and female sports program requires about a thousand kids. And that doesn't include all the kids who drop off or get injured or transfer during their four years. So for a school with 4k students, it means that well over one fourth of all students accepted and enrolled must be intercollegiate-level athletes. So Rice, at its present size, has a D-1 program and the same numbers as Dartmouth and Bucknell. Among liberal arts colleges, many with just 2k students, or thereabouts, still need some 1k athletes to field a full program. So Williams College must accept and enroll athletes comprising half of its entire class. More, if one includes those leaving the program due to injury or other reasons. And all of those athletes are also great students? The best intellects they can find? Not likely. For a university like Connecticut, with over 20k undergraduates, a full sports program will not distort admissions much. But for the smaller schools, it represents an enormous factor. [/QUOTE]