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Univ of Texas Incorporated

One alert student points out that  UTSA is going to enter the football arena in the next year or two. 

Indeed the Presidents and alums of various large enrollment state schools in Texas look dreamily to Austin and visions of millions in athletic revenue dance in their heads.  Well as University of North Texas, actually a Division 1A school now, have discovered, it ain't that simple. Large enrollment does not translate to instant large athletic success.  As George Will noted a few years back, there are only about 35 colleges in the USA that can qualify for genuine televised end of the season bowl playing status. And the rest, well, one need only examine Texas State, University of North Texas or University of Houston to see the results.  If large enrollment instantly translated into athletic success, Alamo Community College District with over 50,000 enrolled, would play in the Rose Bowl!

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    Austin Kroll

    I have to disagree with this. I believe that a brand can be created and be sustained with good enrollment. If Miami and become big time as a small private school, then so can Texas State, UTSA or even Texas A&M-San Antonio. It should be easy for them. It is about building up school pride from the ground up. Tell me why Rice can get 5000 in attendance (awesome for NCAA Baseball) when the school has approx. 2300 students? School pride. U of H, largely having been a commuter school of late, draws 25,000 per game with a student body fo 30,000. About half of the 25M are students who attend. You have to sell incoming students on buying into the TAMUSA/TX. State/UTSA kool-aid and get them to buy into the school they attend, instead of being “Uncle Rico” or “t-shirt” fans of Texas, Texas A&M or even Texas Tech. I put Tech into the same stratosphere, even though academically speaking, they don’t even have full accredidation by SCAC. Athletics can bring in money for the school, but….it has to be revenue generating sports (i.e. football, basketball, baseball, etc.; not volleyball, wrestling, tennis, golf & equestrian).

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