Reply to "Swarthmore restricting on campus to jrs. and srs. in Spring 2021"

PA,

I agree with your logic and hope you are right. I think sports adds a great dimension to the college experience, whether you play or just walk past the field, court, pool or whatever. Sport brings life to a campus.

However, we're seeing a strange race to shut down that started in March with Patriot and Ivy spring sports, then spread all the way to P5 football (thank heavens for the SEC and ACC for taking a stand and saying "enough"), and is continuing to spread to various D3 baseball leagues for next year. Then Lasalle eliminates baseball. It seems like the smaller schools in particular are falling all over themselves to shed sports. I can only imagine that the conversations going on in college presidents' offices are more focused on "why keep sports" rather than "why cancel sports".

10/15/206:51 PM

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