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It's laughable that ku is an AAU school . . . in terms of many of their fellow AAU school their research and academic ranking is a joke. K-State Manhattan has just as much extramural research or more than ku Lawrence, they have to combine their medical center extramural research and ku lawrence to surpass K-State. Compared to other major universities that have medical schools their total extramural research funding is extremely low.
What makes a University eligible to become an AAU school?
As I understand it Big 10 bylaws require all member institutions to have membership on the National Research University Council. Mizzou meets this requirement, NU does not. UT does, but would be a longshot for the Big 10.
The real question in all of this is... Is the big 10 in the midst of a frantic push to branch out and add more television lucrative markets to feed their greed based appetites. I mean clearly the conference has a large number of sets within the rust belt but how many of these people can still afford cable?
you guys are missing out on the opportunity to expand your fandome into more than it has ever been. anyone know how to party like a mid-major parties? anyone know how much beer a mid-major senior can chug on football saturday? anyone here know exactly how great midmajor expectations are? i do, because i've been living the midmajor life since attending k-state. some of you are delusional. midmajor parties have more puss/tang and booze then other bigger BCS parties b/c the midmajors know how and when to party and they don't let anyone tell them how to party. they're writting the party/fandome book, not reading it.
do they have a college in puerto rico? Mexico? Could have midmajor latino super-conference. Garden city juco bump to d1?Brainstorming
I think we have the biggest football stadium in the MVC. Also, Notre Dame is not an AAU school either.
Quote from: steve dave on April 19, 2010, 12:30:52 PMQuote from: Pete on April 19, 2010, 12:28:04 PMI suppose you could make the case that the Big 12 could go after Cincy and Lousiville if we lose NU and Mizzou.We would be a ridic. basketball conference if that happened Ya, I don't think that there is any question about whether we would want THEM, it's really about whether they would want US. In my conference-end-of-days scenario above, they may have their pick between the ACC and the Big (cough, cough) 12.
Quote from: Pete on April 19, 2010, 12:28:04 PMI suppose you could make the case that the Big 12 could go after Cincy and Lousiville if we lose NU and Mizzou.We would be a ridic. basketball conference if that happened
I suppose you could make the case that the Big 12 could go after Cincy and Lousiville if we lose NU and Mizzou.
Does the fact that it's got to be harder to win the conference title in a 16 team conference than in a 12 team confernce come into play anywhere? I'd have to think that would be something of a negative.And if five more teams come into the league, just to break even the revenue for the conference would have to go up 45%. If it didn't, wouldn't the schools end up losing money on the deal? I don't know anything about all the revenue streams, but seems like a big risk to me to make that big of a jump.
Here's an idea. Leave now for the Mountain West. Don't wait around to get screwed. Be proactive. The Mountain West is a better fit for K-State now. Just think of how much more appealing it will be when compared with remnant scraps of the Big 12. Trust me. A few years from now, you'll all be wishing that we had left.
Collin Cowherd of ESPN fame, is reporting that his insidery types are saying that ND is going to say "No," and that the first choice for the Big 10 if they vote to go to 12 is UCONN. Then, he says that if they vote to go to 14, they are targeting UCONN, Pitt and Rutgers.He is also saying that Utah and Colorado to the Pac-10 will happen.Finally, he is "speculating" that TCU fills the open Big 12 spot. DO NOT WANT TCU!!!!!!!!!!!! Tiny school who continues to steal recruits away from the Big 12 in Texas.