Well, if that was the case I guess I should have enrolled in Drake in 1969. 
Or Iowa.
But I didn't.
Or Iowa.
But I didn't.
The economic cost to the University with a poorly performing basketball team
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Great, now I'm not going to get any sleep tonight.
Great thread - hats off to the creator.
Be careful, though. Ticket prices are up, so you would naturally assume deaths from being tangled in bedsheets is also in the ride.
Sweet dreams!
Scalpers at Power and Light will feel a greater economic impact than the university.
guys, the Flutie effect is absolutely real. Like or not, athletics is the face of the university when it comes to awareness and marketing. A couple of examples, when Marquette made the final 4 they saw a huge surge in applicants, so did Colorado when they tied for a national championship in Football.
I didn't realize that Iowa State was hurting for students.
certainly not, I was just firing back at people that were mocking the correlation.
You talk about a spike when athletics has unprecedented success, but is there a corresponding correlation when the success goes away? Does a moderately successful team that has a bad season or two result in a drop in enrollment?
When Kentucky failed to make the NCAA tourney after Elite 8, Final Four and National Championship years I don't see a comparable drop in enrollment...
Failure to make the tournament after a National Championship was in 2012-13.
https://www.uky.edu/iraa/enrollment-demographics
What's the correlation between an increase in the value of Stanley Nickels compared to Schrute Bucks?
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Hard evidence that you don't provide or cite?
Coming out with a troll job this huge for a 4th post is big though.
Another Prohm bashing thread. Yay.
Our largest enrollment increase was 182.4% in 1869 and we didn't even have football or basketball teams then! The so-called "Flutie Effect" as a general rule has been debunked long ago. I even wrote up an analysis on it for ISU. Too long to post here but the bottom line was that there was absolutely no correlation between athletic success/failure/mediocrity and enrollment figures for ISU.
The so-called "Flutie Effect" as a general rule has been debunked long ago. I even wrote up an analysis on it for ISU. Too long to post here but the bottom line was that there was absolutely no correlation between athletic success/failure/mediocrity and enrollment figures for ISU.
This is my favorite one.
Graphs like these are applicable to just about everything on here (especially nowadays with the basketball threads and in the lovely CF Political Cave).
Graphs like these are applicable to just about everything on here (especially nowadays with the basketball threads and in the lovely CF Political Cave).
Sure. Increased ice cream leads to fatter swimmers which are easier to catch. Duh.
More people going to the beach =
More ice cream sales.
AND
More shark attacks.
Correlated, yes, but not somehow causing each other.
Look up the correlation between lead and crime and you'll have all the answers to all kinds of questions!This is my favorite one.
Graphs like these are applicable to just about everything on here (especially nowadays with the basketball threads and in the lovely CF Political Cave).
