About 2% of the world cares about anything that professor have to say.
The vast majority of professors have never been to an basketball game in their entire careers.
I take your point and recall William F. Buckely's famous
bon mot that he'd rather be governed by the first 50 names in the Boston phone book than a random selection of 50 Harvard professors.
Actually, however, lots of professors are fans and enjoy college sports. I speak from family experience, and also from having spent too much time in and around "higher" education. For example, one of the towering global figures in combustion research in UIUC's Mech Engr department was the most avid and informed Illini hoops fan I encountered while on campus. Many profs couldn't care less, of course, which is also true of the general population. One of my favorite
Loyalty posters on the board is in fact a prof, of the hard science variety.
And then there are the two profs (I haven't bothered to look them up to see if they actually exist) who apparently wrote that haughty, semi-ridiculous email to Josh. I assume that they're not only pontificating but also might have personal projects to advance through such advocacy. Entrepreneurialism (even that of the malignant kind) thrives within the academy, particularly since the advent of social media has created a very effective personal broadcast vector. In addition, unfortunately, the past 30 years have changed the composition of liberal arts faculties dramatically in ways not particularly conducive to the cultivation of perspective and deep understanding of history and humanity, not to mention an understanding of how a coach effectively motivates certain players.
But that's a topic for a completely different thread (probably on a completely different site.)