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Topic: Impact of sports for a university

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Sony7
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Impact of sports for a university

Posted: 4/19/2012 1:40:51 PM

Hope you all saw the article in the POST http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/solich-might-see-raise-t.... Our excellent year of athletics has a huge impact on enrollment. Anyone want to debate the salary of the football coach vs the impact he has on the university? Our image has improved greatly because of sports. Enough said. Oh, the article I was referring to is at http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/post-letter-no-causal-relation-between-athletics-enrollment

Last Edited: 4/19/2012 1:46:28 PM by Sony7

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Paul Graham
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RE: Impact of sports for a university

Posted: 4/19/2012 3:49:41 PM

The article that you cite seems to be a pretty well-crafted take down of your admissions theory. No doubt athletic success can up admissions. But so what? Is there any data on the average quality of students (based on GPA/ACT) during these years? Does it go up or down? If the pro-athletics folks are going to make their case, they need numbers. And even the most cynical faculty member can't argue with better (not just more) applicants.

thepost.ohiou.edu/content/post-letter-no-causal-relation-between-athletics-enrollment

L.C.
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RE: Impact of sports for a university

Posted: 4/19/2012 6:56:20 PM

Obviously there is some benefit from the athletic success, because people that saw Ohio on TV some of the 6 times the football team was on National TV, and some of the many times that the Basketball team were on TV are now aware, or are more aware that Ohio University exists, and what it stands for. Obviously it has some effect on giving from alumni as well. The problem is that no one has really tried to quantify it. People who support the athletic programs want to credit it with all the good things that happen, while those that oppose it want to credit it with none of them. The truth is probably somewhere in between...but where?

�We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.� ― Epictetus

OUBobcat13
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RE: Impact of sports for a university

Posted: 4/19/2012 9:52:35 PM

Perhaps their goal is to increase applications to increase competition which, in theory, will increase quality. Perhaps following these statistics over the long run have shown that this works.

DelBobcat
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RE: Impact of sports for a university

Posted: 4/20/2012 11:44:33 AM

OUBobcat13 wrote:

Perhaps their goal is to increase applications to increase competition which, in theory, will increase quality. Perhaps following these statistics over the long run have shown that this works.

This. It doesn't matter if the couple of thousand new applicants are high-quality or low-quality. Even if they are horrible quality, rejecting them decreases our acceptance rate and increases are ranking in U.S. News and other publications. That's how the State University of Ohio- Columbus does it.

BA OHIO 2010, BS OHIO 2010, MA Delaware 2012

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