30 percent of athletes quit respective teams

Losing culture, coaching turnover contribute to athletics program’s high attrition rate

Senior Staff Writers
Thursday, April 28, 2016
This article is part of the series Bruno's Woes





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  1. This series has been an interesting read. Thanks for the high quality and thorough investigative reporting.

  2. 1st Amend. says:

    Do they have the same obsession with sports at universities in Europe?

    • No, only smart people go to university in Europe. Oxford and Cambridge deny your application if you do not meet certain criteria, where the US encourages as many unqualified people as possible to apply to inflate numbers.

  3. Independent says:

    Kids are trained to extremes to perform well enough to get into a “good” school. Once you’re in, it makes sense to quit and get your life back. It’s pretty disingenuous for people to be surprised about this.

  4. Like most activities, people just use these things to build a resume and get accepted. Most people do not pursue the many activities they did in high school, especially sports.

  5. Greek Alum says:

    For all the talk of the lack of pro leagues for women you would think they think the Brown men are going pro in droves. 0 current NBA players from Brown (I believe the last one was class of 1950), 2 current NFL players from Brown, can’t find this season but last season 2 NHL guys, 0 in the MLB last season, 0 MLS, and MLL is probably the only league that gets significant Ivy action with 2 guys drafted in the most recent draft and I can’t find a nice list of active Ivy grads like I did for the other leagues. Average MLL salary is 10-20k with rookie average of 7k so not enough to be a full time LAX player even if a bunch of them can make it there.

  6. If you get recruited for a sport, you should either play all four years or be forced to leave the university. If the attrition rate is so high, the school shouldn’t give such an admissions boost to athletes if they are just using it as a backdoor to get in and then not actually contribute like the university felt they would when lowering the academic threshold to accept them in the first place.

  7. There are no scholarships for athletics at Brown or any Ivy’s, so the university makes no commitment to student-athletes, and vice versa. Loyalty is a choice, and you have to have good programs. And students will always balance athletics against other priorities.

    That said, Brown women’s hockey is getting fixed, and that’s good for Brown and the next generation of recruits. Wish them good luck !!

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