Dan Reilly 11/30/01 Sociology of Sport The 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 …showed first 75 words of 693 total…

…showed last 75 words of 693 total…to all kinds of new perspective students, which can only help applications, I mean just imagine if the Mount would have knocked off Michigan State a few years ago, I think applications for this place would have been nuts the following year, and it would have been a huge boost to recruiting. The Flutie Factor is something that cannot be ignored is defiantly has a positive effect on the number of applications sent to schools.