Athletics are an outreach and are very visible, more so than some other areas of the school. I watched them play in the Clinic Bowl in 1960. I heard about the success of its athletic program before I found out about how good the education was.
Even in the areas with least rainfall per person we are still using less than 10% of it.
There aren't as many developed facilities in terms of picnic areas and that kind of thing, but it gets fished pretty heavily.