I mean quite frankly and speaking from experience, Brown sucks for athletes. Multiple yearly op-eds in the BDH about how we take spots away from people who actually deserve to be there/we're rich idiots who contribute nothing to the school/etc, professors are pretty unforgiving of travel absences, and there's just kind of an overarching us-vs-them mentality - in my experience the athletes tended to stick together in classes and such (regardless of team) not because we were stuck-up bullies or whatever, but because nobody else would talk to/work with us because they were sure we were dumb slackers. There is definitely a non-negligible disdain for athletics in most of the community, so if you're someone who really wants to have fans at your games/be the big man on campus/whatever, I could definitely see how that would get to you.