A. If we were to stop having big-time athletics, much of our academic competition likely would as well. That's not something likely to happen on a VT island. B. There's a great big world out there that doesn't care about athletics the way people on an athletics message board do. Sure, some kids are looking for big time athletics as part of the college experience, but a whole lot wouldn't change their minds if it disappeared. Many would hardly even notice. There's definitely a skewed view of what the role and value of athletics is in a university within the TSL community. C. Even if it was joking below, we haven't been very "big time" for a while...yet, demand and enrollment has continued to be very strong. D. We hear stories on these boards all the time about great students who don't get admitted. Even if demand went down, it wouldn't be so bad. Plenty of great students would still be dying to come and VT would remain a great destination.