Football had a huge effect on VT's growth
I was in B'burg from 1991-2000, and IIRC when we sucked at football, there was almost no growth on campus. After 1995, when we played in a BCS bowl, new buildings started popping up all around campus. After 1999, again IIRC, the freshman SAT average went up substantially.
A lot of us joked that if we'd applied to VT in 2000 (instead of the early 90s), we couldn't have gotten in.
The growth paralleled football success almost exactly...
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Posted: 03/31/2021 at 3:12PM