Call it the Flutie Effect or whatever, but there is hard evidence that when your men's basketball team makes the tournament, it can boost student enrollment by 3% the September after the tournament and 4-5%the year after that. So, when our men's team does not perform well enough to make the tournament, it not only has an impact on ticket sales and donations, it also had an impact on tuition dollars. At what point do we think the Administration will question what going on?
The economic cost to the University with a poorly performing basketball team
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We saw our most growth when football was at our lowest point in a couple decades. It doesn’t have that much effect.
If you are picking a school based on the basketball team, I would think odds are against you to last more than 2 years
UCLA is turning away applicants in droves, and both their basketball, and football teams suck and have for several years
UCLA is turning away applicants in droves, and both their basketball, and football teams suck and have for several years
Fun fact about correlations... Increased Ice cream sales and shark attacks go hand in hand. Do you think it's the ice cream sales bringing the sharks in?
Now that I think about it, yes.
Yeah, but they are accepting unqualified students for their crew team, so it balances out.
Is it hard evidence like when Detective Einhorn was making a pass at Ace Ventura.
I think that was USC, but still funny
I think you're right. UCLA probably did too.
Hasn't ISU had just about as many students as they can handle the last few years? Maybe they actually asked Prohm to dumb it down a bit so they could get to a more sustainable level.
I saw a great graph about the rise in global warming was inversely related to pirate attacks. Hundred years ago the environment was "perfect" but there were lots of pirate attacks (watch the "documentary" Black Sails). Once carribean pirating died off the world started heating up.
