Was a great athletics program a factor in choosing schools?

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by valkyrie
I chose my school because of the creative writing program, too.

You guys both realized that the creative writing programs ranked are the grad school programs, right?

Not that there's not going to be some spillover (i.e. usually Lorrie Moore teaches grad classes at my school, but the past few semesters she's taught one section of undergrad advanced fiction too), but on the whole, the ranking of grad schools doesn't necessarily reflect on the undergraduate programs.

At any rate . . . I didn't choose my school for its athletics, but I had football tickets a couple of years and basketball tickets one year, and I definitely enjoy going to games. My college experience wouldn't have been complete without college football game days.