Correlation of enrollment and performance

[Mustang98]

I was looking at the schools in C-USA and was surprised to see Tulsa's enrollment at 4,174. For a school that size they sure have had some good teams the past two years. What are ya'lls thoughts on the correlation between enrollment and performance on the football field?

Click on the link below to view each school's enrollment. We are in the bottom third in enrollment, but we have five wins compared to some bigger schools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference_USA

[SC Pony]

I am betting that the Tulane enrollment is a Pre-Katrina number.

[MustangIcon]

I don't think enrollment to success has a great correlation like it does in highschool. You are allowed to recruit players to come to your college, a luxury not given to public highschools who must pick players from their smaller selection pool. There are plenty of smaller private programs that have had lots of success and its bc they place an importance on athletics.

[Crong]

this is easy to measure if you can get the data. i would look at applications instead of enrollment...and you will need years of it.

there was a rumor floating around smu that the applications increased at northwestern after they went to the rose bowl in '96. i've also heard the same about usc over the past few years.

[MustangIcon]

this is easy to measure if you can get the data. i would look at applications instead of enrollment...and you will need years of it.

there was a rumor floating around smu that the applications increased at northwestern after they went to the rose bowl in '96. i've also heard the same about usc over the past few years.

I am not sure if you intended sarcasm in this post or not but of course applications increase for schools when their sports programs are succesfull and receive tons of media attention because of it. I am not sure what your point is.