charliesheen, on 18 March 2012 - 07:36 PM, said:
My point was that comparing LCC and OG based on the number of students is irrelevant. LCC draws from a much, much larger population than OG. Their "talent pool" is much larger. It doesn't matter if they have 350 kids in the school or 500, they're still drawing kids from a population base of close to 100,000 people. OG's is less than 20,000.
My comment obviously doesn't apply to the other schools you mentioned. Obviously OG has an advantage over smaller D3 public schools.....that's common sense. As titanman said, OG has been D2 and was one of the 4 or 5 smallest D2 schools in Ohio when they won it all in 2004.
As for the OSU vs Iowa comment....what does that have to do with enrollment? Both schools have 120 or so football players in their program. The size of the student body has absolutely effect on the number of kids playing football.
Using your reasoning, Duke should be lucky to win 2 games a year in basketball......their total student enrollment is 6400. No way in the world they can compete with schools like Texas, Ohio State or Michigan...right?
I see what you were saying when you said "the number of students in the school is irrelevant". It was about LCC. They could have 50 or 500 but they pull from 100,000. Got it my bad.
My point about osu and iowa was about what they can pull from. Iowa has maybe 5 to 10 big ten players in their state. OSU has 40 to 50 kids who can play in the big. It is alot easier to win when you dont have to leave ur back yard for 75% of your class.