<p>Sam,</p>
<p>Duke only enrolls about 1,650 undergraduates and has about 140,000 living alumni. How do you think those football seats are going to filled when Duke’s Football Team has not traditionally been good and there aren’t a lot of affiliated fans to begin with?</p>
<p>If Duke enrolled 50,000 students like UT-Austin, had a living alumni base of 400,000+, and had millions more “adopted” fans through satellite campuses/state school status (being the hometown team), then it too would be able to follow Wallace Wade.</p>
<p>Sports like Basketball and Lacrosse are better fits for medium-sized private schools like Duke and NU. Fielding a popular football team will always be an uphill battle for schools like these with strong academic standards.</p>