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That was also when they were renovating the towers and the other residential colleges, so on campus housing was pretty sparse. The undergrad population has held around 10k for at least 30 years.

You only need a couple of high end guys to have a legit basketball team(You can then surround them with role players), football, you need a minimum of 40-50 guys that are worth a **** to even be competitive.

The numbers are a matter of public record, you can go over to the Department of Education website and look. The problem is that 1) Miami doesn't have a fanbase that spends money, by purchasing a ticket, or by donating to the Hurricane Club. Hence why Miami is usually somewhere in the 30s at...

Those sports depend on revenue from the revenue sports to stay afloat. Some of their more popular sports do have passionate donors(their volleyball programs have a ton of support from their volleyball alumni, a lot of whom went on to Silicon Valley), but if Stanford football and basketball...

Their endowment doesn't have anything to do with their their athletic department budget. Stanford, like many schools were forced to cut sports/positions because they lost out on tons of revenue due to COVID-19, and had to balance the books. Departments have been a bit bloated for years, an...

Stanford hasn't been relevant in football on a national level for most of the last half century. They have had runs of success, bit they can't sustain it or cash in for titles. Stanford puts most of their resources into the Olympic sports, which our fans dont give a **** about. Notre Dame is...

Blake has to go. That said, there's a ceiling, thanks to how the sports world has changed. I'm fine with Miami being a 9-11 win per year team that wins the Coastal most years and sneaks into the playoff every once in awhile. Our fanbase wants the Decade of Dominance and that's not happening...

It's a positive(as a marketing tool) but you read what a lot of these posters are saying and that isn't the argument. They want to be Alabama so bad, they are drastically overstating the importance of college sports. If having a competitive athletics department was the end all be all, the...

Yes it is possible, but for that really nice bottle of scotch, you have to sacrifice some of your food budget. Some families have such huge food budgets, they can do both with no problem(Texas, Michigan,Penn State) Miami doesn't and barring someone in the family hitting the lottery, will likely...

The kind of people that write huge checks to Universities for the academic side don't care that much about what the team does. A University is like a family on a food budget. College athletics is that 200 dollar bottle of wine you keep in the pantry or some high end scotch. Yes, it's nice to...

A successful athletics program can have some impact, as a marketing tool. That said, people are in this thread are overstating said impact.

What facts? I showed you the numbers. Alabama has been winning for over a decade, winning in a way none of us have ever seen before, and they are still over 300 schools behind Miami. Go look at the top 100 of the WSJ rankings, a lot of those schools haven't won anything in football in decades...

Yep, kids are willing to potentially go into six figure debt, so they can possibly meet a football player maybe once or twice in their four years at the institution. Alabama has over 30,000 students, that means that the 85 scholarship student athletes make up around .26% of the student body. In...

It helped, but the impact has been overstated for decades by people who honestly don't have a **** clue what they are talking about, or are people that want to push a narrative. Miami's rise as a school is more a result of the city's rise than the football program finding success. People...

UGA has passed Miami, in the US News and World Report rankings, the most useless rankings in existence. We've seen numerous times how those ranks can and do get gamed, mostly because the criteria has little to do with academic relevance or rigor. In other words, you are in the middle of a huge...