In an era when a professional baseball team team employs a director of decision science, when a football team hires a brainy baseball exec to run its shop, and when an annual gathering sponsored by MIT morphs into one of the most important confabs in all of sports, it was only a matter a time before a college kid could major in sports geekdom.
On Wednesday, Syracuse announced it would become the first U.S. university to offer a bachelor of science degree in sports analytics.
Image: John Korduner—Sportswire/AP The campus of Syracuse University before a game in Syracuse, New York, Sept. 26, 2016.
