Do we have our final numbers?
This year’s class is over 4k
BUGS is also over 4k this year and they’ve now set records for enrollment two years running.
I haven’t seen numbers reported for Ohio, Toledo, Kent, Akron yet, though I’ve read some scuttlebutt that Toledo is down yet again.
Edit: most schools start posting official numbers around the third week after classes start.
Back to lurking.
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If you made an x/y axis of just the college logos in Ohio and labeled the vertical y top “elite” and the bottom “average” and the horizontal or x “cheap” on the left and “expensive” on the right, you’d see the following: a Case Western would be upper right (elite/expensive) and although expensive isn’t necessarily a desirable quality, it’s justifiable if the education and post grad opps are high. MU would be upper right but closer to the mid line cost wise. BG is bottom left. They can do fine there provided their cost doesn’t go up. X is possibly circling the drain. It’s not elite and it’s expensive. It’s bottom right which IMO is the dead zone. Not bagging on X, just think their price is too high for the offering.
In a kind of a weird way, IMO, Miami Athletics are helping keep Miami more in-the-public-eye and a “Brand Name” school. If Miami f*cked up and did something like drop to FCS, or made massive cuts to athletics, Miami might be thought of like a Kenyon or a Capital.
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Kenyon is still well positioned because although expensive, the academics are deemed worth it. Capitol would be in X’s space were I dropping in logos. And as enrollment drops at a lot of schools, more will be there. It’s a hard quadrant to escape.
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Couldn’t tell you a damn thing about Kenyon, Augustana, Beloit or Carleton. DevilGrad can, ‘cuz he’s got some wicked smart people in his family who pay attention to these sortsa places, but the average putz (like me) don’t know much about them.
(Heck, I think we already had these conversations about Grinnell being a great school with a crazy ass basketball team philosophy…)
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Kenyon and Carleton are definitely elite liberal arts colleges.
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Let me point out one thing here that no one has touched on yet. If your university isn’t in the P2 and relies on student fees to fund your athletic department, one would logically assume that an increasing enrollment would lead to a larger athletic department budget year-over-year than would a declining enrollment. That’s another reason I scoff at this “OMG TOLEDO IS LEAVING THE MAC FOR THE AAC!” commentary. That school is running out of students which means their athletic department is running out of cash, yet they have the funds to jump ship to a league where travel costs are more than double? Yeah, no.
Back to lurking.
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There are far worse things in life than being compared to Kenyon. It’s a fairly elite small liberal arts school and Paul Newman is an alum.
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Who wised up significantly after beginning his college career at OU!
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Yellow, is your graph a spinoff of the Hot/Crazy Matrix?
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Richard Pitino Jr’s-led Xavier team just lost to DePaul.