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

 

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?

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.