Rovell - Will next generation of fans show up?

[RodentRampage]

The private colleges aren't dominating. Except for BYU in 1984 (BYU's only had to play in a minor bowl game that season), there have been three private colleges since Stanford in 1940 that have won national championships: Miami, Notre Dame and USC. We're just not seeing private colleges stepping up to dominate college football. Because their alumni are spread across the country, it's hard for private schools to build up a large base of fans to attend games, so their attendance levels can be quite volatile.

Was there really a practice of students from farm families skipping the fall quarter to work on the farm and then taking classes at the U after the fall quarter?

 

[maroon and gold]

The private colleges aren't dominating. Except for BYU in 1984 (BYU's only had to play in a minor bowl game that season), there have been three private colleges since Stanford in 1940 that have won national championships: Miami, Notre Dame and USC. We're just not seeing private colleges stepping up to dominate college football. Because their alumni are spread across the country, it's hard for private schools to build up a large base of fans to attend games, so their attendance levels can be quite volatile.

Was there really a practice of students from farm families skipping the fall quarter to work on the farm and then taking classes at the U after the fall quarter?

Short answer ... yes.

Read paragraph 5 ... http://ext.wsu.edu/documents/landgrant.pdf

I know we can get knee deep into a discussion about how/why things change/evolve over time, but the U has changed and really isn't the people's university that it was during the Bierman glory years.

 

[RodentRampage]

Short answer ... yes.

Read paragraph 5 ... http://ext.wsu.edu/documents/landgrant.pdf

I know we can get knee deep into a discussion about how/why things change/evolve over time, but the U has changed and really isn't the people's university that it was during the Bierman glory years.

Passage of the First Morrill Act (1862) reflected a growing demand for agricultural and technical education in the United States. While a number of institutions had begun to expand upon the traditional classical curriculum, higher education was still widely unavailable to many agricultural and industrial workers. The Morrill Act was intended to provide a broad segment of the population with a practical education that had direct relevance to their daily lives.

Paragraph 5 does not demonstrate that people used to use the quarter system to work on the farm in the fall. The U does have a school of agriculture, according to this list, it's the 16th best agriculture school in the country. The mission of the Land Grants is to provide agricultural and technical education, and the U of M does this. If someone lives on a farm and wants to pursue an agriculture degree, they don't tend to do it part time.

 

[Mvgopher]

familiarity breeds contempt. you are preaching the failure path for unis in the future.

HS school sports are dominated by privates and college will soon follow. It was nice that the privates followed the NCAA for years but it's over johnny. Plug yer ears Mr Morrill.....go private or die will be the BT trend in the next 100 years.

I should have known Eden Prairie is private?