Well, in your field there is no Nobel Prize. Same with mine. In my STEM field, I see very few professionals from Division I schools with top sports programs. And the borderline exceptions (because they rarely have top sports teams) are specialized schools like Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Texas A&M.
In 11th grade I was shopping around for colleges. All of them told me that they'd be best at making me a programmer. I realized that they couldn't all be right. So I asked programmers and IT directors already in the field which training was best. I realized that they would be the best people to ask because those were the people I'd want to one day hire me. I fully expected them to tell me to go to either Georgia Tech or Auburn. Nope. They told me that Bama's CS program was the best one. So I got that CS degree and immediately afterward accepted my first programmer position (before I even walked the stage).
As the years went by and I moved up with my experience, I became one of the senior programmers interviewing applicants. I always ask a softball question of what their most challenging project was. If they got a CS degree from one of the three Univ of Alabama schools, they always answer that it was the compiler course. Even the ones who've had years of experience. LOL To this day, even with my decades of experience, I always reply with "me too". LOL Of the applicants who don't have CS degrees from the Univ of Alabama schools, I'm often amazed at the past projects that they say were tough. Usually I'm like, that's nothing compared to some of my simplest projects in my career. There are times I wonder if other schools are capable of teaching programmers to be real geek level programmers.
By the way, if you got a CS degree from my school and wanted a specialization in network programming, a required senior level course was in numerical modeling. LOL
But, hey, go ahead and say that the good sports schools have no real training.