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Briggs: What role can athletics play in reversing Toledo's declining enrollment?

It’s a story worth shouting from the rooftops.

Now, can the University of Toledo get people to listen?

That was the question at the heart of a strategic planning retreat last week to map the future of UT athletics.

By some measures, the Rockets are wrapping up their greatest school year ever.

The football team won the Mid-American Conference championship and a bowl game for the first time in 21 years. Women’s basketball won the league and an NCAA tournament game for the first time in 31 years. Men’s basketball won its third straight conference title for the first time .