Howcome you never hear about sports at the british universities?

Because the British are not utterly moronic enough to grant scholarships on someones ability to kick a football.

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because a good sportsman is likely to make the university money, for one. And the admission process is more holistic. Still, it's unlikely someone will get in a very highly ranked school if they are absolute **** academically even if they are quite good athletes.

If you have a future in professional sports, I highly doubt you'll choose a university based on league tables.

Do you spend all the time you have in 'learning stuff' at university? What do you do on weekends?

true . but it makes sense to give them scholarships based on their athletic abilities.

Weekends -and weekdays (Weds afternoons are, by convention, empty of timetabled lectures/tutorials in order that sports can take place)- are a time of sport or societies or whatever you want to do to enjoy yourself.

The difference, as others have alluded to, is the non-professional aspect of sport at British universities - with only some exceptions.

Put it this way, if you went to a university in the States and wanted to take up a sport because you were interested in it, wanted to give it a go, etc, you wouldn't get close to competing for the university because you'd be up against people who have made that sport their entire life for longer than you've known what it is.

The British system is, whether deliberate or just the way it's gone, is open to all people to participate in some way.

huh? No university, even in the US, will take you with less than the required GPA. I can name many athletes who have suffered this fate.

Its big in the states because

a) the standard is extremely high. Almost all pro players spent 4 years at college learning the game.
b) there are only 100 odd pro sports franchices spread over an entire continent. Pretty often the only sports team with in 200 miles in any direction is the local college. Hence people support them due to a lack of alternatives.

From that, everything else follows: the big stadia, the famous coaches, the whole process of recruiting athletes specifically to play sport.


Over here the football market is already saturated, and anyway very few professional footballers ever went to uni, so the standard is quite low.

i know and i already mentioned this in my previous post. maybe you confused 'scholarship based on athletic ability' to gaining free admission to college.