Though even as someone born without the sports fan gene, the vision of campuses and workplaces becoming more productive in the absence of football strikes me as them going off the rails. Some other sport would take over, just as football and basketball have taken advantage of baseball's slow fade.
(This could be Twenty20 Cricket's big chance!)
That said, it's possible that the new sport could do its drawing outside of academia, which I'd take as a win even if I don't know if it would be financially for the schools. (Running farm teams for the pro leagues just doesn't strike me as a university's core mission, profitable or not.)
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Date: Feb. 13th, 2012 10:32 pm (UTC)(This could be Twenty20 Cricket's big chance!)
That said, it's possible that the new sport could do its drawing outside of academia, which I'd take as a win even if I don't know if it would be financially for the schools. (Running farm teams for the pro leagues just doesn't strike me as a university's core mission, profitable or not.)