A) duke and vandi were mentioned because they are both currently big teams in power 4 conferences. Duke just won the acc, vandi’s QB was in the running for the Heisman.
B) neither duke or vandi are ivy league schools
C) I don’t think that schools that only ivy league schools count as good education. I never said that you’re straw manning me. My comment was about how major sec and big 10 schools are choosing football over education and it’s ruining their reputation as academic insiutuons.
This isn’t the first time football has ruined the reputation of the academics of schools. The University of Chicago in the late 1800s and 1900s was at points a dynasty in college football. Then the dean shut down the program instead focusing on academics.
Chicago is now in the same level of ivy Leagues and has a tier 3 football program.
Major Public schools on the north east and west coast which do not prioritize football like those in the south and Midwest do not have this problem.
I went to a university of California for a few years, those are excellent schools that choose academics over sports.
This is an issue WITH MAJOR FOOTBALL SCHOOLS
They are not investing in education, getting caught in constant bad press, and are cutting programs
It’s not just ou cutting academic shit.
These schools can afford to pay billions a year in new football stadiums coaches get paid millions
Players get paid millions
There is a reason why all the academic elite schools don’t invest in sports anymore
I’m sorry but you haven’t presented much in the way of hard evidence nor do you display a solid understanding of finances at some of these schools. Michigan and Texas are academically elite schools. Big football programs such as these earn enough revenue to support entire Athletic Deparments and it’s the smaller schools without succesful programs you should be targetting because they remain just as football obsessed Ie colleges such as duke and vandi.
You just seem to be going on a crusade a aginst big public schools, as long as they’re not in big blue states, conveniently forgetting the UCs are really big into football and are pretty fucking broke enough to divert tuition money into football
Virginia the one state that forces these school to disclose whether or not the money is going to sports, has seen a MASSIVE INCREASE in MANDATORY athletic fees which needs to paid by by EVERY FUCKING STUDENT.
At JMU a public school in Virginia, students are forced to pay $3,000 a year in Athletic fees for the college football program.
The only difference between the schools in virgina, which top the chart in most expensive athletic fees, and other major football schools is that virginia has a law making it illegal for schools to divert tuition to sports so they just charge thousands is mandatory athletic fees.
I’m currently at a top university in Europe that has sporting facilities with multiple fields, a swimming pool, basketball courts, raketball courts, track fields, rugby fields, and a stadium. Student athletic fees for my university is less than a thousand euros.
The $3000 athletic fee is for the football team
It is common knowledge these schools spend tuition money on football. Thats why there were multiple bills proposed and passed in the Virginia state legislator in an attempt to stop it from happening. Instead schools are now doing athletic fees
THE GOAL IS TO TURN THESE SCHOOLS INTO BRANDS/ PROFESSION SPORTS TEAMS.
The elite private schools are hedge funds
The deans of these schools want to condense college football into one or two conferences and have the valuation of their sport franchises become as valuable as NFL teams.
They are sacrificing the quality of the education of their schools to make more money.
I don’t have any bias against any schools, I am mad that the sport of college football is being destroyed and the education thousands of students are getting is being devalued because deans and athletic directors want to make money
This isn’t also the first time something like this has happened to American education
It happened in the 30s when the ivy league and northern schools ditched football in the early 1900s-1930s to favor academics and become hedgefunds.
Then in the 60s the elite southern schools left the football conferences to try to copy harvard and yale and Chicago. IT worked for Tulane, Rice, and Duke.
We’re seeing the result of the 1981 OU vs NCCA Supreme court decision of schools being able to sell college football themselves to TV studios, the consolidation of football programs into super programs, and the result NIL leading to some schools become monopolies in college football. They think they can be the NFL with their football programs worth billions.
Virginia is not a football money maker, though. They have a shitty program that is in the upper echelon of competition and yet doesn’t attract many eyes. They’re exactly the sort of school I’m talking about. I don’t think Michigan has athletic fees.
A) duke and vandi were mentioned because they are both currently big teams in power 4 conferences. Duke just won the acc, vandi’s QB was in the running for the Heisman.
B) neither duke or vandi are ivy league schools
C) I don’t think that schools that only ivy league schools count as good education. I never said that you’re straw manning me. My comment was about how major sec and big 10 schools are choosing football over education and it’s ruining their reputation as academic insiutuons.
This isn’t the first time football has ruined the reputation of the academics of schools. The University of Chicago in the late 1800s and 1900s was at points a dynasty in college football. Then the dean shut down the program instead focusing on academics.
Chicago is now in the same level of ivy Leagues and has a tier 3 football program.
Major Public schools on the north east and west coast which do not prioritize football like those in the south and Midwest do not have this problem.
I went to a university of California for a few years, those are excellent schools that choose academics over sports.
This is an issue WITH MAJOR FOOTBALL SCHOOLS
They are not investing in education, getting caught in constant bad press, and are cutting programs
https://www.highereddive.com/news/oklahoma-regents-vote-to-cut-41-low-producing-academic-programs/807317/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/17/university-of-texas-cuts-liberal-arts
http://amp.thestate.com/news/local/education/article306055871.html
It’s not just ou cutting academic shit. These schools can afford to pay billions a year in new football stadiums coaches get paid millions Players get paid millions
Tuition is rising
But programs are being cut
All while shit like this
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/college-football/article-15405981/amp/Five-women-claim-Sherrone-Moore-unwanted-advances-Michigan.html
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/lane-kiffin-suffers-damaging-accusation-174627431.html
Lane kiffin is getting paid $13 million a year in student tuition while his dms of him cheating on his wife gets leaked on Snapchat
HOW THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THAT MAKES LSU AND OLE MISS LOOK?
(https://lailluminator.com/2025/03/28/lsu-moves-toward-hiring-freeze-budget-cuts-amid-federal-funding-uncertainty/ lsu is also cutting back on education btw, but they can pay lane kiffin millions)
Look I’m a historian who studies sports and way to autistic about football I think way to much about this stuff I can argue all day about this
I left my previous university because it was starting to invest more in sports and cut the history department when I was getting my degree.
This shit negatively impacts students and makes their degrees worth less
There is a reason why all the academic elite schools don’t invest in sports anymore
Tldr get mad at the deans not me for wanting to turn their schools into NFL franchises because that’s worth more money than being a school
America moment
I’m sorry but you haven’t presented much in the way of hard evidence nor do you display a solid understanding of finances at some of these schools. Michigan and Texas are academically elite schools. Big football programs such as these earn enough revenue to support entire Athletic Deparments and it’s the smaller schools without succesful programs you should be targetting because they remain just as football obsessed Ie colleges such as duke and vandi.
You just seem to be going on a crusade a aginst big public schools, as long as they’re not in big blue states, conveniently forgetting the UCs are really big into football and are pretty fucking broke enough to divert tuition money into football
Virginia the one state that forces these school to disclose whether or not the money is going to sports, has seen a MASSIVE INCREASE in MANDATORY athletic fees which needs to paid by by EVERY FUCKING STUDENT.
At JMU a public school in Virginia, students are forced to pay $3,000 a year in Athletic fees for the college football program.
The only difference between the schools in virgina, which top the chart in most expensive athletic fees, and other major football schools is that virginia has a law making it illegal for schools to divert tuition to sports so they just charge thousands is mandatory athletic fees.
I’m currently at a top university in Europe that has sporting facilities with multiple fields, a swimming pool, basketball courts, raketball courts, track fields, rugby fields, and a stadium. Student athletic fees for my university is less than a thousand euros.
The $3000 athletic fee is for the football team
It is common knowledge these schools spend tuition money on football. Thats why there were multiple bills proposed and passed in the Virginia state legislator in an attempt to stop it from happening. Instead schools are now doing athletic fees
https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20251/SB1217/text/SB1217
https://www.sportico.com/leagues/college-sports/2025/virginia-bill-college-sports-subsidies-student-fees-1234824931/
https://cardinalnews.org/2025/12/18/james-madison-university-generates-more-money-from-mandatory-student-fees-for-athletics-than-any-other-school-in-the-nation/
THE GOAL IS TO TURN THESE SCHOOLS INTO BRANDS/ PROFESSION SPORTS TEAMS.
The elite private schools are hedge funds
The deans of these schools want to condense college football into one or two conferences and have the valuation of their sport franchises become as valuable as NFL teams.
They are sacrificing the quality of the education of their schools to make more money.
I don’t have any bias against any schools, I am mad that the sport of college football is being destroyed and the education thousands of students are getting is being devalued because deans and athletic directors want to make money
This isn’t also the first time something like this has happened to American education
It happened in the 30s when the ivy league and northern schools ditched football in the early 1900s-1930s to favor academics and become hedgefunds.
Then in the 60s the elite southern schools left the football conferences to try to copy harvard and yale and Chicago. IT worked for Tulane, Rice, and Duke.
We’re seeing the result of the 1981 OU vs NCCA Supreme court decision of schools being able to sell college football themselves to TV studios, the consolidation of football programs into super programs, and the result NIL leading to some schools become monopolies in college football. They think they can be the NFL with their football programs worth billions.
Virginia is not a football money maker, though. They have a shitty program that is in the upper echelon of competition and yet doesn’t attract many eyes. They’re exactly the sort of school I’m talking about. I don’t think Michigan has athletic fees.
They do have fees,
And if you re read my comment,
The virginia schools lead in athletics fees because they passed a law where tuition can’t go to sports
Michigan and other schools just spend tuition money on sports
I literally posted an article and the link to the state law from Virginia
But you don’t have any evidence that they do besides Virginia, with bad football revenue streams, do; am I mistaken?
YOU CAN GOOGLE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STUDENT FEES YOURSELF!!!
I DID
IT TAKES 2 SECONDS!