When I originally saw the post on the USU board I just thought, "come on guys, let's not embarrass ourselves too badly here." But it turns out that by cherry-picking the right data, it doesn't sound too bad.
Now of course it's easy to poke holes in it and there's obviously no chance here. But 10 years ago, I don't think there would have been a single argument to be made other than, "we're older than most of you!"
Now back to your regularly-scheduled expansion talk...