re: Birmingham-Southern College is shutting down; baseball team (Div III) is still playing

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That's a shame. I had some high school classmates who went there.

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Back in the 90s/00s, it was a reputable school. Hence why they tried to grow by going D1 in sports.

High Point in North Carolina was the same model that BSC tried to do. High Point was successful because they had a unique student recruitment model.

Sleepy little High Point went from D3 to D1, did not build out their facilities at first and did not add football even though they were tempted. They started scholarshipping children of C-suite executives in NC and guess what happened? People started wanting to go too High Point to network with these kids. All of a sudden, High Point was competing with Davidson for students, then it became a cool place for NC kids to go.

They had a president that branded High Point as the "Life Skills University" about the same time woke started invading college campuses. All of a sudden, it became a place for conservatives to go.

Solid business school
A bunch of Executives' kids
D1 athletics
Conservative values

Go from 1000 to 5000 students in 15 years.