@Ster posted:For years I read about the value in using baseball to go to an HA D3 school and continuing to play collegiate baseball.
Yes, but people also have frequently talked about schools (often small colleges) that use sports to attract fee-paying students, and often have very large teams.
@BOF posted:When looking a colleges one primary consideration should be how much endowments they have on the balance sheet, not if Johnny has a shot at playing SS.
JMO
Forbes has letter-grades for fiscal solvency:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/e...ges/?sh=310641b71097
They give a letter grade for the financial health of hundreds of private colleges and universities, from A+ to D. Birmingham Southern has a C-, and is listed among the "Dunces" - schools whose ratings dropped a lot in one year.
Probably worth checking out if you are looking at small or private schools.