It's the "Flutie Effect," in which small schools gain notoriety and a TON of applicants via the success of the sports teams. More applications means more selectivity, which means higher academic ranking, which means even more applicants. All this leads to more money for a college.
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Date Posted:Tuesday, June 30, 12:26:06pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
That may be true to a point and I can fully understand that, but you better look at George Mason before you use them next to Siena. Not close by any means.
Siena has two things going for them that NU does not have. One is a suitable facility for basketball that they didn't build and do not not have to pay to upkeep and schedule events into.
Secondly, because of the bloated size of NYS state government, many Siena alums can stay in the area both to support the school while holding very good paying jobs not always available in the WNY area. Other businesses, such as banking and insurance also have a sizable presence in the Albany area allowing even more to remain there. There is a reason that the Albany County unemployment rate has always been about the lowest in the State.
Date Posted:Tuesday, June 30, 12:41:12pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
I want you to know that there is nobody who would get more excited than myself should NU have decided to up the ante in basketball, build a new arena and play bigger teams. After seeing the Bellermine's, Gannon's, and St Anselm's over the years, I would love to kick somebody'd ass (just kidding) to be the first in line for tickets to a new facility...but....I don't see the numbers as being there for NU to embark on such a mission and to actually see 30-40 million on a new arena IMHO would be a complete diservice and kick in the groin to students who actually need better resources, ie library, housing, student center et all much more than a new basketball arena.
Date Posted:Tuesday, June 30, 12:46:02pm Author Host/IP: cache-mtc-ab08.proxy.aol.com/64.12.116.72
It's the Casino now, but back when NU played there, you could not get students to move themselves about 5 miles up the road to see the games. You never saw 300-700 kids in the stands like you do at Gallagher. NU even had a bus that would take kids up there and it was a waste of time...BTW the schedule was much better then as well. One would have thought that the entire school would have turned out for the SJU game that we won over a team ranked 4th in the country but that didn't happen either.
