[Sciencewoman]

Alabama is offering very attractive financial aid packages to lure high achieving students. This tends to work well. I also think the football program helps lure students. Everybody likes a winner. The university where I teach has a very strong football program, where Brian Kelly got his start, and we hear this from incoming students. I also hear about our football program when I meet professors at conferences...I even heard it from the Chancellor of the SUNY system when I met her a couple years ago. She had hired Brian Kelly when she was president of the University of Cincinnati.