I've never been to Lamar, so maybe you know something I don't, but there's no sense in which Lamar is a small school. It's probably several times the average US university.
It was small from about 1986 till the early 2000's. During that time they had the only undefeated football team in the Southland conference. Population shot up over the last two decades when they started losing games.
Aww man, I got stuck with Lauffer. I somehow never got to registration before Dawkins was full. I wanted to take Price too; some people didn't like him, but he's a legend.