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Message: [QUOTE="uconnphil2016, post: 2553693, member: 6328"] There's an extent to which recent athletic success boosts a school, especially in applications, but only to a point. It's helpful when it's schools people haven't heard of (i.e. George Mason in the final four) gaining recognition and thus boosting applications, but it has minimal influence at this point--we already have name recognition. I don't think there's a strong correlation between athletic success and academic prestige...if so, wouldn't Alabama be a great school? Kentucky? Kansas? Wouldn't Rutgers going to the B1G come with a massive increase in their US News Rankings over the past several years? None of these things are the case. Two of the top three public universities in the country have pretty pedestrian athletic departments--UVA and Cal Berkeley. University of Florida, who was once in our ballpark in US News rankings, is now the #9 public school in a time where their basketball and football programs are irrelevant compared to the Noah/Tebow years. [/QUOTE]