| I can attest to this with UConn. Fifteen years ago, it was a safety for a lot of people, and nobody had heard of it outside our little state. A teacher told me that when her daughter moved west and told people she went to UConn, people thought she'd gone to school in the Yukon Territory in Canada.
Then both the men and women started winning in the mid-to-late 90s, and suddenly UConn's loaded with cash and attracting out-of-state applicants like crazy. The nice part is that a lot of their facilities are new (and really great), but it's become a lot harder to get into, and I think some kids kinda resent that. Central Connecticut State University's competitiveness is going up as well, since kids who would have gone to UConn in the 90's are going there today...and Central's starting to get pretty good at sports, too... |