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No this program/administration needs all the scrutiny. They need to be hearing how much of a laughingstock they are. The apathetic nature of the Denver sports media toward CU is part of the reason why they’ve been in this position for almost two decades
you could be right and I'm open minded to being shown wrong, however I still believe that the team being ignored by fans and media is worse than negative attention.
It's because somehow they are afraid of Plati. I guess after years of being protective like a mother hen, local media has a very real concern that they will lose access if they're critical.
Which for guys like Howell and Adam is a big deal since it's their entire livelihood. The network sports guys can survive without Buffs coverage, but I would hope if Plati every barred them from access, they would all go scorched earth on the program.
Indeed. But what access does the local media really even have now? Access to propaganda. Nothing of value is being derived week to week. It’s all just stay the course, been here before kind of garbage. Maybe it’s better to get adversarial with the AD, calling attention to the negative trajectory of the program.
One of CU's bigger and more involved donors. If more of them spoke out it might drive some change
So basically, asking tough questions at the pressers would be like the NoKor press (HaHa) asking Kim Jong Un why there are so many dead flies in the rice rations.
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There’s the Alabama study that compares enrollment/applications pre Saban and enrollment/applications during Saban era and it’s an overwhelming positive correlation between football success and number of apps.
If you look at Instagram, there are a ton of kids who grew up all across the country who are interested in Alabama - almost entirely because of football success/partying. Alabama is becoming a true national university in a not so nice part of the world.
My SIL just started a professor gig at a school nearby Mobile. My brother is putting in a final 12-18 mos. here to take a better/more robust pension, and most likely moving down there to soak in retirement. My step-niece and niece are now Frosh at Bama. Which was an upgrade from attending kNU. So, the national interest is there if two natives bail out of going to Lincoln to take advantage of squeaking in on in-state enrollment to Bama.
Good for them. Not to insult either place too graphically, but isn't living in Nebraska / Alabama kind of a Sophie's Choice?
no question that doing well in sports leads to increased applications. however that doesn't really answer the ROI question (but does hint at one aspect of it).
Probably. My brother has painted the scenic landscape of Mobile pretty well. Basically the only thing saving it would be the proximity to the nicer parts of the Gulf coast. My brother desperately wants to retire in the Phoenix area - so, I take that in to consideration when he tells me about the woes of living in Mobile for a few years. From what I’ve seen of Tuscaloosa, Bama and kNU could be sister-cousin college cities. Though, Bama gets the nod for HC queen in that analogy.
I kind of wonder about this too. Driving more applications is great but I don’t think CU has a goal of dramatically increasing enrollment. If they are getting a deeper pool of really qualified applications, that’s great, but if the increase is in football fans on the margins of meeting enrollment criteria I’m not sure it adds a lot.
I don't think there's any question that success in sports impacts ROI.
Well, selectivity and admittance rate matter. And yes, of course, it’s going to bring more high level people into the fold by sheer numbers. More selective, lower admittance rate, better academic reputation.
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Boulder is reaching maximum density which means the university can’t grow enrollment too much. How much? I’m not sure. So, does that mean increasing the out of state student ratio even more? The state legislature will get itchy about that and does that incremental tuition revenue boost really even make much of a difference? I’d love to be wrong here.
I’m not saying increase enrollment necessarily, but rather increase the number of applicants (good and bad) and in turn, increase competition and lower the admittance rate.
not to speak for Yak, but the economic benefit with a higher application rate is that the university admissions dept. accepts a high percentage of top applicants (vs a higher number of applicants). this theoretically leads to higher performing alumni making bigger donations down the road.
