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re: Who has the best "family atmosphere"?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:19 am to Carolina Tide
Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:19 am to Carolina Tide
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Unlike those stupid Gumps. I bet not a single one of them even seen the inside of a Bammer classroom. All they care about is Bammer football and that's it.
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Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:37 am to AUCE05
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That's because, unlike Alabama, we actually graduated from our university.
The vast majority of your fan base, like every SEC fan base, is non alums. You're no different
Posted on 8/6/15 at 11:43 am to Tuscaloosa
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You understand that Alabama has a larger alumni base than Auburn, right?
A larger number of alums does not necessarily mean that a larger percentage of Bama fans are graduates.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:02 pm to Guava Jelly
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A larger number of alums does not necessarily mean that a larger percentage of Bama fans are graduates.
This it true, but the flag ship schools usually have a larger alumni base since they are the state school.
Since Auburn is the smaller school student wise, they'll probably have a smaller alumni base population wise, and a smaller fan base overall. It's probably easier for them to have a larger percentage of alumni in their fanbase than Alabama.
This is probably true for a lot of bigger vs smaller school, especially if one is more popular. I bet ULL's fanbase has a higher percentage of alumni compared to LSU, despite LSU being the larger school and alumni base.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:04 pm to JesusQuintana
quote:A frequently used phrase. That needs to be abandoned.
"family atmosphere"?
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:04 pm to Carolina Tide
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Since Auburn is the smaller school student wise,
only very recently, Auburn was a larger school for more than 30 years up until just a few years ago
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:06 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Auburn men and women are better than everyone else because they are a family and are the only people in America that love their University AND their football team.
Rage on little rager, Rage on. It's good to see you post in here James.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:31 pm to Carolina Tide
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Since Auburn is the smaller school student wise, they'll probably have a smaller alumni base population wise, and a smaller fan base overall. It's probably easier for them to have a larger percentage of alumni in their fanbase than Alabama.
I know. But the initial contention is that few Bama fans (as a percentage of the whole) actually graduated from Bama.
The argument in response was that Bama has a larger alumni base. This argument is flawed because a greater number of alumni doesn't necessarily mean that the fanbase is comprised of a higher percentage of alumni.
I don't necessarily ascribe to the notion that you have to have graduated from a school to be a fan of their sports teams. I was just pointing out an error in the logic.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:33 pm to Carolina Tide
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This it true, but the flag ship schools usually have a larger alumni base since they are the state school.
Since Auburn is the smaller school student wise, they'll probably have a smaller alumni base population wise, and a smaller fan base overall. It's probably easier for them to have a larger percentage of alumni in their fanbase than Alabama. Yes I work with statistics and demographic data for a living.
This is probably true for a lot of bigger vs smaller school, especially if one is more popular. I bet ULL's fanbase has a higher percentage of alumni compared to LSU, despite LSU being the larger school and alumni base.
I ran these numbers awhile ago and the closest estimate was that every SEC fan base (at least the ones I could get numbers on) was at the very best 18% alumni and this was giving all reasonable doubt. The more realistic number is maybe between 10-15%. I think TAMU had the smallest alumni-fan ration with only about 8% of their fans being alums. All the other SEC schools were within 5-7 percentage points of each other as far as alumni-fan ration. I can't remember who had the largest because they were all so close
This post was edited on 8/6/15 at 12:34 pm
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:47 pm to AUCE05
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That's because, unlike Alabama, we actually graduated from our university.
Yep. 87,000 Auburn graduates pack the stands every fall Saturday. They all graduated and make six figure incomes.
Posted on 8/6/15 at 12:54 pm to NYCAuburn
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only very recently, Auburn was a larger school for more than 30 years up until just a few years ago
That's because Auburn has more affordable student housing.
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