My universities football team is actually self-funding and actually funds a lot of other programs. The sports teams can be considered as courses unto themselves considering this is where the NFL and other professional sports teams find their players (employees). I don't think it's as cynical as tribal ties.
Nothing! There are also a lot of vocational schools.
Maybe we'll see some unbundling but I doubt it.
Who wants to learn Circuit Design from a college with a lab from the 1980s? As opposed to one publishing research papers on the newest techniques?
What better way to get Alumina donations than giving them a tribal ties to the institution with sports teams?