it's a fact

[topdawgnc]

People Believe That a School’s Football Success Implies Academic Quality

Higher football achievement by a university leads administrators and professors at other schools to raise their estimates of the university’s overall academic quality, says a team led by Sean E. Mulholland of Stonehill College. Specifically, a 301-vote increase in the Associated Press football poll final assessment of a university’s season has the same effect on outside administrators’ and faculty members’ opinions as a 20-point increase in the school’s entering students’ SAT scores. By improving its football record, a university effectively signals that it has improved its institutional quality, even if that’s not the case, the researchers suggest.

So says Harvard Business Review

 

[WilburHooksHands]

Cannot believe Harvard Biz Review misspelled academis. You can't find an editor?

 

[AZDuck]

we're movin' on up... to the east side
to a deee-luxe apartment in the skyyyyyy
we finally got a piece of the pie
fish don't fry in the kitchen
beans don't burn on the grill

took a whole lotta tryin'
just to get up that hill
now we're up in the big leagues
gettin' our turn at bat

as long as we live, it's you and me baby
ain't nothin' wrong with that

 

[dnc]

The inverse is probably true. Irregardless, bout time we started taking football srsly up in this bitch!

 

[whatshouldicareabout]

People Believe That a School’s Football Success Implies Academic Quality

Higher football achievement by a university leads administrators and professors at other schools to raise their estimates of the university’s overall academic quality, says a team led by Sean E. Mulholland of Stonehill College. Specifically, a 301-vote increase in the Associated Press football poll final assessment of a university’s season has the same effect on outside administrators’ and faculty members’ opinions as a 20-point increase in the school’s entering students’ SAT scores. By improving its football record, a university effectively signals that it has improved its institutional quality, even if that’s not the case, the researchers suggest.

So says Harvard Business Review

Another fact is that football and basketball are FREE PUB!! for schools and their incoming freshman class is usually higher after athletic success. This phenomena has been seen at many schools with notable examples being Boise State, TCU (Hi Tequilla!), George Mason and Virginia Commonwealth.

 

[oregonblitzkrieg]

This is really unfair to WSU and Beevis State.

 

[topdawgnc]

I miss Race's front porch

 

[CFetters_Nacho_Lover]

Harvard Business Review is your source?

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

People are fucking retarded.