Texas State typically waits a few weeks into the semester to announce the official enrollment. It was released today as 38,006, 3.4% increase from last fall. This is the 18th consecutive year that the enrollment has increased.

The University received 27,000 applications last May, a 13% increase from the year before.

Not bad

USA reports record enrollment: 16,055

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/...lment.html

(09-10-2015 04:17 PM)tx.state Wrote:  Texas State typically waits a few weeks into the semester to announce the official enrollment. It was released today as 38,006, 3.4% increase from last fall. This is the 18th consecutive year that the enrollment has increased.

The University received 27,000 applications last May, a 13% increase from the year before.

I bet adding a certain fall sport would help those application numbers even more...

(09-11-2015 09:05 AM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-10-2015 04:17 PM)tx.state Wrote:  Texas State typically waits a few weeks into the semester to announce the official enrollment. It was released today as 38,006, 3.4% increase from last fall. This is the 18th consecutive year that the enrollment has increased.

The University received 27,000 applications last May, a 13% increase from the year before.

I bet adding a certain fall sport would help those application numbers even more...

Yes, GET MEN"S SOCCER TEXAS STATE.

The only D1 men's soccer team in Texas is SMU...and they don't sponsor baseball...

I really doubt that Texas State will:

1. strive to be the 2nd school in Texas to sponsor men's soccer
2. drop baseball to pick up men's soccer
3. voluntarily sponsor 2 more sports (another women's sport to offset Title IX)
4. sponsor men's soccer before men's lacrosse

(09-11-2015 09:45 AM)tx.state Wrote:  The only D1 men's soccer team in Texas is SMU...and they don't sponsor baseball...

I really doubt that Texas State will:

1. strive to be the 2nd school in Texas to sponsor men's soccer
2. drop baseball to pick up men's soccer
3. voluntarily sponsor 2 more sports (another women's sport to offset Title IX)
4. sponsor men's soccer before men's lacrosse

Oh, I was assuming he thought you were a UTA fan, and implying that adding football would increase enrollment.

(09-11-2015 09:49 AM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  Oh, I was assuming he thought you were a UTA fan, and implying that adding football would increase enrollment.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Had to work last night and the caffeine hadn't kicked in yet today. Sorry about the derailment...

(09-11-2015 08:10 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  USA reports record enrollment: 16,055

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/...lment.html

Correction.

That 16,055 figure was last year's (2014) fall enrollment, This year's (2015) is reported to be 16,462.

Check the date of the article in your link.

(09-11-2015 09:45 AM)tx.state Wrote:  The only D1 men's soccer team in Texas is SMU...and they don't sponsor baseball...

I really doubt that Texas State will:

1. strive to be the 2nd school in Texas to sponsor men's soccer
2. drop baseball to pick up men's soccer
3. voluntarily sponsor 2 more sports (another women's sport to offset Title IX)
4. sponsor men's soccer before men's lacrosse

Just a minor correction. There are three more D-I universities in Texas sponsoring men's soccer. They are Houston Baptist, Incarnate Word, and UTRGV (as of 2015). They all compete in the WAC. (All three sponsor baseball.) Incarnate Word is still transitioning from D-II to D-I, but they are a D-I counter for sports. The other two are D-I.

They might make sense to compete as Sun Belt affiliates if Hartwick, Howard, and NJIT leave the Sun Belt.

Oh geez, this has turned into a blanking soccer thread.

(09-11-2015 10:37 AM)Beltfan Wrote:  Oh geez, this has turned into a blanking soccer thread.

Sorry for the derailment.

Just thought the omission of three Texas D-I programs was interesting when one of the Sun Belt Soccer affiliates is a D-III program in all sports except Men's Soccer and Women's Water Polo.

Back to the topic, the enrollment increases are great. To recap, we have the following so far.

Texas State: 38,006 - a 3.4% increase
South Alabama: 16,462 from last year's 16,055.

Total Fall 2012 enrollment was 16,687.
Total Fall 2013 enrollment was 16,646.
Total enrollment at the University of Louisiana, for the Fall or 2014 is at 18,796 students, this is the highest in the school’s history.
Don’t know the Fall of 2015 yet.

Coastal's enrollment is expected to settle in around 10,200, according to our president.

Arkansas State's enrollment is 13,410, a 2% increase from last year. This increase bucks the trend of two years in a row of a decline in enrollment.

(09-11-2015 10:59 AM)LUSportsFan Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 10:37 AM)Beltfan Wrote:  Oh geez, this has turned into a blanking soccer thread.

Sorry for the derailment.

Just thought the omission of three Texas D-I programs was interesting when one of the Sun Belt Soccer affiliates is a D-III program in all sports except Men's Soccer and Women's Water Polo.

Back to the topic, the enrollment increases are great. To recap, we have the following so far.

Texas State: 38,006 - a 3.4% increase
South Alabama: 16,462 from last year's 16,055.

http://www.southalabama.edu/departments/...lment.html

South Alabama has a higher enrollment than Southern Mississippi - 14,579
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/30004260/...iversities


FYI - University of West Florida (Fall 2014) - 12,602

(09-11-2015 10:59 AM)LUSportsFan Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 10:37 AM)Beltfan Wrote:  Oh geez, this has turned into a blanking soccer thread.

Sorry for the derailment.

Just thought the omission of three Texas D-I programs was interesting when one of the Sun Belt Soccer affiliates is a D-III program in all sports except Men's Soccer and Women's Water Polo.

Back to the topic, the enrollment increases are great. To recap, we have the following so far.

Texas State: 38,006 - a 3.4% increase
South Alabama: 16,462 from last year's 16,055.

No problem.

(09-11-2015 10:09 AM)JoeJag Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 08:10 AM)FloridaJag Wrote:  USA reports record enrollment: 16,055

http://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/...lment.html

Correction.

That 16,055 figure was last year's (2014) fall enrollment, This year's (2015) is reported to be 16,462.

Check the date of the article in your link.

Thanks

(09-11-2015 02:22 PM)FloridaJag Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 10:59 AM)LUSportsFan Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 10:37 AM)Beltfan Wrote:  Oh geez, this has turned into a blanking soccer thread.

Sorry for the derailment.

Just thought the omission of three Texas D-I programs was interesting when one of the Sun Belt Soccer affiliates is a D-III program in all sports except Men's Soccer and Women's Water Polo.

Back to the topic, the enrollment increases are great. To recap, we have the following so far.

Texas State: 38,006 - a 3.4% increase
South Alabama: 16,462 from last year's 16,055.

http://www.southalabama.edu/departments/...lment.html

South Alabama has a higher enrollment than Southern Mississippi - 14,579
http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/30004260/...iversities


FYI - University of West Florida (Fall 2014) - 12,602

When USA builds their proposed on-campus stadium, I believe not only an increase in attendance will occur, but the enrollment will also soar to new heights.

(09-11-2015 09:54 AM)Pounce FTW Wrote:  

(09-11-2015 09:49 AM)BurlingtonApp Wrote:  Oh, I was assuming he thought you were a UTA fan, and implying that adding football would increase enrollment.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Had to work last night and the caffeine hadn't kicked in yet today. Sorry about the derailment...

Not to be a stick in the mud, but there is no causation or even correlation link to football and enrollment. Georgia State, for example, has steady steady and is around 32,000, and staying on the same curve as before. Same thing at FIU, FAU, Lamar, Southeastern Louisiana, etc.

There was predicted doom for UTA when they dropped the program in the mid-80's. UTA and UNT had near the same enrollment then and now and they mirrored each other through the years. UTA's enrollment grew every year for five years after dropping it, started a decline that was seen nationally and occurring nationally as well. It picked back up near the turn of the century, and like Texas State, has seen growth every year since, I believe, 1998.

I'm a proponent of adding the sport, but let's not make claims that have no statistical or researched backing.