In an era when a professional baseball team team employs adirector of decision science, when a football team hires a brainy baseball exec to run its shop, and when an annual gatheringsponsored 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.
