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re: How many football games does Mississippi State win in 2013?
Posted on 12/30/12 at 6:56 pm to DCRebel
Posted on 12/30/12 at 6:56 pm to DCRebel
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due to growing enrollments - again, OM has a larger freshman class than State, remember?
Link?
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The growth of endowments isn't linear, which is why engie's model is flawed. Will State's outgrow Ole Miss'? Probably not. It's not impossible, but nobody really knows. All I'm saying is that since ours is already significantly larger, even the interest we collect on it will have a huge impact on its growth.
Where did I claim it was linear? I simply said that we've outpaced you for 8 years in a row on "percent growth"(even provided links proving it) -- by an average of 5-8%/yr. "Probably not"? Give me some -- ANY -- reason to think otherwise...based on every bit of empirical data we have at our disposal?
You are acting as if it's easier to earn a higher percentage of interest on a smaller sum of money vs a larger sum -- which in insanity. What about my assumption doesn't give the most likely possible outcome?
Either we are contributing more money to our endowment funds every single year than you are -- or we have been superior investors every single year that I can find. Which conclusion do you prefer?
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Posted on 12/31/12 at 4:35 am to engie
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Link?
Here's something describing this year's freshman class as the second-largest in the history of the state. I'm not sure what's first or what 2011's numbers were.
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My point is that your "student gap" argument is dumb.
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Where did I claim it was linear?
Your entire damn argument (taking the past few years and using that as a model to project the future) relies on the assumption that these changes are both constant and consistent, therefore linear.
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I simply said that we've outpaced you for 8 years in a row on "percent growth"(even provided links proving it) -- by an average of 5-8%/yr. "Probably not"? Give me some -- ANY -- reason to think otherwise...based on every bit of empirical data we have at our disposal?
I wasn't disputing that, engie. This is what you don't get.
Your argument is simple: State is growing and improving in a way that Ole Miss cannot or will not be able to match. Essentially, "SCHTAYYTE SCTACKED AND OLD PISS frickT!!!1" My argument is that such a belief is ridiculous.
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Either we are contributing more money to our endowment funds every single year than you are -- or we have been superior investors every single year that I can find. Which conclusion do you prefer?
Superior investors perhaps? If investing in less volatile assets makes one "better" then have at it. Also, where have I disputed that State hasn't done a good job of raising money? I have said as much several times. Why you somehow still haven't seen that I don't know.
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