When the Virginia Tech football team made it big, the average incoming SAT score increased markedly. A quick look for historical data failed, but if you can fi

When the Virginia Tech football team made it big, the average incoming SAT score increased markedly. A quick look for historical data failed, but if you can find the data, the big shift should have occurred with the class matriculating in 1994±1. Correlation is not causation, but it's not implausible that notability in athletics can have sympathetic effects for funding and student quality. If only there were a daily 'Science' section in the newspaper to go alongside 'Sports'....