I heard a rumor that my college had some sports teams, but I didn't see a lot of evidence of it. I now live near to U of Michigan, and yes, I would absolutely advocate that some of those nutters be put away. Best thing to do around here is to get a football schedule so you can know what days to stay out of town.

I was happy to go to school where I did, and I do give charitably to it, but honestly, a school is a school. I had friends who took the same major as me at several different schools, all the way up to MIT and in talking to them I don't think any of us got a significantly different education than the others.

I quite like sports if I'm playing them. I simply can't see any point in watching someone else do them. Whatever gene there is that allows someone to take pleasure in watching a bunch of people run around a field/track/ice rink/whatever, I guess I'm missing them. Just as well, it gives me more time to do stuff.

I think the biggest problem is that... it's just not very effective. There's not much room on a bike to put anything in the first place..and then even so no one notices.

Why are half the people in this thread angry towards universities and students? Perhaps because you are in the 46% of all students that drop out? If you are, decide what you want to do with your life and take action, but get over it

Hence my use of the word probably to indicate that this is not true in all cases. However, if we're realistic about it the portion of students in the top universities makes up a very small percentage of the overall number of students currently attending university. Therefore, if the aim is to attend the best university the majority of people are there due to sub-standard performance compared to the ideal performance.

Also if you look at a country as large as the USA I'd find it surprising that a mediocre student (which make the the majority of students) would travel extremely long distances to attend a university that fits their mediocre results. This would again indicate the geography plays an important point.

In the end all this is me trying to get my head around why anyone would ever want to make such an effort to show alleigance to a business. How many people are painting their bikes with Microsoft logos?

Well, look at all the people who wear Nike logos. Then again, they tend to fall into your previously-mentioned sportsfan group of which we've already decided there is no rational explanation. :p