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Flutie Factor

On Thanksgiving weekend in 1984 Boston College and the University of Miami faced each other on the football field, Miami was the defending national champion and Boston was a heavy underdog. With time ticking off the clock quarterback Doug Flutie would throw a pass into the endzone from around seventy yards out thus claiming the surprise victory over Miami. With this pass Doug did more then just win the game, he also did more then solidify his spot has the Heisman Trophy winner, because of that pass, and the win on national television Doug helped Boston College's application numbers go up by twenty-five percent, and giving a name to a phenomenon that would be called the "Flutie Factor".

The Flutie Factor is the name given for a schools increase in applications after well know success in athletics. Winthrop University benefited enormously as both its baseball and basketball teams made the Division I playoffs last year. Winthrop received coverage from 98 total media outlets, which led to an

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