re: 2012 US News and World Report Top Public Universities-SEC edition

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First off, it's Witt, no Whitt. Secondly, the high school graduate numbers in AL are flat, so in order to grow the University in the manner we have, we HAVE to look out of state, and it certainly doesn't hurt that those students are willing and able to pay 3x in-state tuition. Trust me, no one is turning their backs on AL students.

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Exactly. Witt/Whit (whatever...) has not limited the number of opportunities for in-state students at all. He added 8K students. If some of those kids are from Plano, Texas paying full out of state tuition, you don't have the issue of in state funding constraints. There are as many in state kids as ever going to UA, he just added the Texas and North Carolina kids.

He is going after good students who are almost good enough to get into Texas or A&M, but don't want to settle for Texas Tech.