[Farm93]

Not that hard to root for 2 or 3 teams. When Tech played at Maples I was in my usual seat. Wearing gold ;)

Stanford shouldn't discount any potential fan whether or not they once went to school there.

That wasn't quite the "discount" I was going for.  Obviously any actual fan is a treasured part of the Stanford Athletics community, but overall one probably can count on 60-80% of Stanford Undergrads to attend at least one football game in their time at Stanford.  And for a much smaller percentage of grad students to attend.  Therefore, when tallying up Stanford enrollment, or the enrollment of any USA university, one should assume the grad students will attend at lower rates than the undergrads.  Essentially, discounting their collective enrollment count when predicting university-wide support.  That's true for any USA university BTW.

A school with 7,000 undergrads and 12,000 grads will have a very different level of student and alumni engagement with athletics than a very similar school with 15,000 undergrads and 4,000 grads.  Yes, obviously, some grad students can become very passionate, but overall grad students as a group are going to be less engaged in undergraduate sports than undergraduates.

[Farm93]

Not that hard to root for 2 or 3 teams. When Tech played at Maples I was in my usual seat. Wearing gold ;)

Stanford shouldn't discount any potential fan whether or not they once went to school there.

That wasn't quite the "discount" I was going for.  Obviously any actual fan is a treasured part of the Stanford Athletics community, but overall one probably can count on 60-80% of Stanford Undergrads to attend at least one football game in their time at Stanford.  And for a much smaller percentage of grad students to attend.  Therefore, when tallying up Stanford enrollment, or the enrollment of any USA university, one should assume the grad students will attend at lower rates than the undergrads.  Essentially, discounting their collective enrollment count when predicting university-wide support.  That's true for any USA university BTW.

A school with 7,000 undergrads and 12,000 grads will have a very different level of student and alumni engagement with athletics than a very similar school with 15,000 undergrads and 4,000 grads.  Yes, obviously, some grad students can become very passionate, but overall grad students as a group are going to be less engaged in undergraduate sports than undergraduates.