Bradleyguy10
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Some of you guys aren't grasping the concept. We're talking about young people not knowing. You guarantee that when you were in high school you knew all of these cities including Peoria and where the colleges were, etc. The common denominator in most of that is that I bet there is a minimum age of 40 of the people saying they KNOW they knew of Peoria when they were in high school. That is my point. Older people DO know because of Bradley's basketball past, and even more likely if they are an older sports fan.
The fact is if you are not a sports fan and younger you have never heard of Bradley before. Tell me exactly..how would I know where Bradley is my junior year in high school? Believe me I wasn't doing research of which school to go to that early, I had never seen a commercial or any type of advertisements for the school, they hadn't been doing nationally well in basketball, our only mainstream sport, and I didn't play basketball in high school. How was I supposed to know about Bradley just out of the blue? And I'm using myself as an example because this is how it is for most.
I knew about Peoria, but basically only knew it was a city in mid-illinois. I had no idea about the population, size, Bradley, until I looked into BU. I had just heard about it. I'm telling you right now most kids in high school looking for colleges do not know where Bradley is and have never heard of it, I promise you that. The percentage of people not knowing drastically increases if you are from out of state.
The majority aren't morons (for some that may be the case) it's just how would you know about Bradley exactly? And tornado is right. He listed those schools and I had no idea where they were except for BYU. I think Rutgers is in southern New England somewhere like southern NY or northern NJ. And Cornell is in New York, I think Ithica. That's all I know though.
Anyway the point is the same. Younger people have NO WAY of knowing about Bradley unless they are specifically searching for DI schools in Illinois, private schools in the midwest, engineering schools, now radio broadcasting schools, things that make us unique. BU doesn't have much that is unique that specifically makes it stand out. Bradley is virtually unknown outside of central Illinois except to avid sports fans and people who can remember the 50's pretty well, and alumni of course.
By the way I think that stat is a little high. People are using scare tactics about education.
The fact is if you are not a sports fan and younger you have never heard of Bradley before. Tell me exactly..how would I know where Bradley is my junior year in high school? Believe me I wasn't doing research of which school to go to that early, I had never seen a commercial or any type of advertisements for the school, they hadn't been doing nationally well in basketball, our only mainstream sport, and I didn't play basketball in high school. How was I supposed to know about Bradley just out of the blue? And I'm using myself as an example because this is how it is for most.
I knew about Peoria, but basically only knew it was a city in mid-illinois. I had no idea about the population, size, Bradley, until I looked into BU. I had just heard about it. I'm telling you right now most kids in high school looking for colleges do not know where Bradley is and have never heard of it, I promise you that. The percentage of people not knowing drastically increases if you are from out of state.
The majority aren't morons (for some that may be the case) it's just how would you know about Bradley exactly? And tornado is right. He listed those schools and I had no idea where they were except for BYU. I think Rutgers is in southern New England somewhere like southern NY or northern NJ. And Cornell is in New York, I think Ithica. That's all I know though.
Anyway the point is the same. Younger people have NO WAY of knowing about Bradley unless they are specifically searching for DI schools in Illinois, private schools in the midwest, engineering schools, now radio broadcasting schools, things that make us unique. BU doesn't have much that is unique that specifically makes it stand out. Bradley is virtually unknown outside of central Illinois except to avid sports fans and people who can remember the 50's pretty well, and alumni of course.
By the way I think that stat is a little high. People are using scare tactics about education.