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[QUOTE="nzm136, post: 3512335, member: 2531"]
Isn’t number of alumni covered by school size?

As far as students living in state, sure, but it’s not exactly like Syracuse has a huge vacuum that sucks alumni far away. How many kids from Penn State do you think end up in NYC?

(I know PSU is massive. My point is simply that certain cities are magnets for recent grads. We have one of those magnets in state, which at least partially negates the advantages of concentrated student bases from instate tuition breaks.)

My belief is that there are a lot of rules of thumb which are blindly applied. SU isn't like most private schools. SU is much bigger than most private schools, and it exists in an environment that’s conducive to a “townie” fanbase.

We are an outlier in the northeast (see Colgate, Cornell, Nova, etc.), and the major private schools in the regions existed before a strong public school system could be developed, which makes the region an outlier.

Are we Alabama? No, but how many other schools are?

Is our AD on par with many public schools in power conferences? I certainly think so, and I think many public schools would count their lucky stars to trade athletic departments with us.
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