The idea that football programs expand student bodies is 100% myth. None of you can produce anything other than anecdotal evidence in support of the claim.

The truth is that student body expansions have more proximal causes, such as the strategic actions of universities to recruit out-of-state students. Football success helps improve the university's brand, TRUE. That makes strategic initiatives easier, TRUE. But other actions are necessary to entice students from the coasts to attend a deep south school. Alabama is doing those things. LSU is not.

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Posted by TxTiger82

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Posted on 7/22/19 at 5:22 pm to TxTiger82

Also, I would separate the issue of student SUPPORT from the issue of student RECRUITMENT.

So you got them on campus? Now what? You going to let them live in squalor and study in a shite-hole library? That's LSU in a nutshell right now.

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Posted by Golfer

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Posted on 7/22/19 at 5:27 pm to TxTiger82

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The idea that football programs expand student bodies is 100% myth. None of you can produce anything other than anecdotal evidence in support of the claim.

I'm on my phone and will bump this post later...but there's countless data points out there that when the premier athletic program of the university has a standout year that applications to the school are up the following year.

And this goes for major football schools as well as regional/commuter schools like FGCU, George Mason, Butler, and VCU that have made runs in Final Four.

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