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DON'T IGNORE IT. GOES FOR BASKETBALL AND THE NCAA'S TOO. SO, HIRE A GREAT COACH THIS TIME.

"There's definitely a Rose Bowl effect," said Alice Reinarz, assistant provost for enrollment at Texas A&M University. "A lot of sports publicity typically gets your name out there, and it leads to increased application numbers. You've got more alumni wearing UT shirts, and high school students see that."

Read the facts:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/041206dnmetutapply.26c0605a.html

newshound wrote:DON'T IGNORE IT. GOES FOR BASKETBALL AND THE NCAA'S TOO. SO, HIRE A GREAT COACH THIS TIME.

"There's definitely a Rose Bowl effect," said Alice Reinarz, assistant provost for enrollment at Texas A&M University. "A lot of sports publicity typically gets your name out there, and it leads to increased application numbers. You've got more alumni wearing UT shirts, and high school students see that."

Read the facts:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/041206dnmetutapply.26c0605a.html

Thanks for posting this. I read it this morning and it is good info. This should be required reading for the faculty and admin who think that pouring money into athletics does not help the academic standing of a university. Bigger pool of applicants means higher admission standards. They illustrate this very well in the article.

I have a small complaint with this website. The ‘search’ function does not operate like it use to.

I say this because wasn’t there a post about a year ago about Dr. Turner being on some national committee that concluded that athletics doesn’t impact a school’s academics. And although he didn’t author the report, didn’t he publicly state that he supported its findings?