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Post by blackandgold on Aug 4, 2010 16:37:24 GMT -5
Dana O'Neil has a great article up about the effect at Northern Iowa from the team's win against Kansas in last March's tournament. Basically, she goes on to say that UNI provides proof that a solid athletics program can lead to further revenue and marketing for a university. Like many OU administrators, I've always felt this was true for Oakland as well, even though faculty groups sometimes do not agree. sports.espn.go.com/ncb/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=5436566
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Post by Germane on Aug 5, 2010 10:25:32 GMT -5
Good point. No way to argue against the importance of athletic success for Oakland. There's simply no other way we can get that kind of PR.
When the final numbers come out, it will be interesting to see what impact the NCAA appearance has on freshman application numbers this fall. Last year, according to the Princeton Review, we had 10,070 applications, of which 6,912 were accepted. A continued increase in applications will allow us to be more and more selective, which in the long term will raise our average ACT scores and bring in better prepared students.
Even skeptical faculty members can appreciate that kind of ripple effect.
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Post by Germane on Mar 12, 2011 11:46:22 GMT -5
The impact of CBS coverage of Selection Sunday at the O'Rena is worth a ton of "Go Oakland" billboards. Let's keep the ripple effects coming.
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Post by dantheman on Mar 15, 2011 10:53:28 GMT -5
Much agreed. After all, this is the point of college athletics when you get right down to it.
Working for Admissions, I know that this is surprisingly the only way which many high schoolers know schools: how their athletic programs are. I don't know what that says about high schoolers, but I do know that I am glad we have a solid program.
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Post by blackandgold on Mar 15, 2011 11:57:28 GMT -5
Much agreed. After all, this is the point of college athletics when you get right down to it. Working for Admissions, I know that this is surprisingly the only way which many high schoolers know schools: how their athletic programs are. I don't know what that says about high schoolers, but I do know that I am glad we have a solid program. I was a senior the year after Oakland was in the tournament for the first time. The only reason they were on my radar was because I had remember seeing them on the bracket as a school from Michigan. So I can say at least in my case it definitely played a factor in choosing to even look into Oakland.
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Post by ouguy on Mar 16, 2011 21:24:05 GMT -5
This thread should go in te 2010-2011 section because it's quite relevant right now. Despite what some faculty like to contest, making a splash in the NCAA tourney really helps a schools reputation. I remember reading an article I think it was in the Oakland post after we made the tourney in 2005 that said that Oakland sold out of every single piece of apparel the following week after we made the tournament. That's impressive.
One thing I've personally noticed is something kind of simple but something I found humorous. In the local Rochester Hills meijer, they sell one random OU t-shirt, something I always dug out of their rack hiding behind the msu and u of m shirts (I would literally pull it to the front only to find them in the back next visit). Just last week I was shopping and to my surprise, the same Shirts were on their own rack in the front of the store right when you walk in. Imagine that!
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Post by blackandgold on Mar 18, 2011 1:44:44 GMT -5
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Post by Germane on Mar 18, 2011 7:53:26 GMT -5
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Post by Germane on Mar 18, 2011 7:54:49 GMT -5
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Post by blackandgold on Mar 29, 2011 15:02:54 GMT -5
Nice piece from Andy Katz on how Butler is raising expectations at Horizon League schools: espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/blog/_/name/katz_andy/id/6269905/butler-lifts-expectations-horizonThere seems to be an arms race going on right now with a lot of these schools attempting to keep coaches by upping salaries to extraordinary levels (see the Painter-Mizzou-Purdue and Jost Pastner raise from today). Some schools in the Horizon League don't have to worry as much about that since they are private, but I wonder if some of these basketball-only public schools are making sound decisions in giving salaries closing in on or upwards of 1,000,000. Hypothetical: If Kampe went on a magical run in the next 2-3 years and there was interest from other schools in hiring him close to $1 million to ride out into the sunset at, would you support Russi and Co renegotiating with him to pay him that much just to keep him around? I think this is unlikely at Oakland because Kampe's not a 34 year old coach, so I bring up the hypothetical just to give it some local flavor (if you want, let the example be VCU). I'm just not sure what kind of message that sends, and I wonder if these big contracts for coaches at public institutions might be regretted at some point, particularly with government economic woes at present. What do others think?
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