Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Moderators: PonyPride, SmooPower
-
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 12315
- Joined: Mon Dec 02, 2002 4:01 am
- Location: Dallas, Texas USA
Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Louisville - u.s. news ranking number 168. Can we stop pretending academics has anything to do with any of this please? It's a joke.
Come to think of it - not sure what Louisville adds - number 48 media market, not that great a record in football over last five years. Basketball, yes...but the acc didn't need more basketball in small market.
I think we are just throwing crap on the wall, and the media consultants are trying to get to 4x 16 as fast as possible.
Come to think of it - not sure what Louisville adds - number 48 media market, not that great a record in football over last five years. Basketball, yes...but the acc didn't need more basketball in small market.
I think we are just throwing crap on the wall, and the media consultants are trying to get to 4x 16 as fast as possible.
- East Coast Mustang
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 7435
- Joined: Sat May 21, 2005 8:35 am
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
More than anything, I think Louisville over UConn was a move to appease the FB schools (FSU, Clemson, etC)
2005 PonyFans.com Rookie of the Year Award Recipient
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Some conferences care more than others
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
- CalallenStang
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 19359
- Joined: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:43 pm
- Location: 25 feet from the Hillcrest track
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
To get into the ACC, one had to have 2 or fewer votes against.East Coast Mustang wrote:More than anything, I think Louisville over UConn was a move to appease the FB schools (FSU, Clemson, etC)
UConn was being blocked by Boston College. Other no votes were the football schools (FSU, Clemson), and two others - not sure who exactly, but I heard there were 5 against.
Louisville originally was opposed by UNC, Virginia, and Wake Forest. However, Wake became concerned that not adding someone would result in further ACC destabilization, which threatens Wake Forest as they likely will not receive a bid from another conference. Thus, they switched their vote late yesterday, and that is when you saw the conference schedule a 7 AM conference call to officially vote.
- SoCal_Pony
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 5901
- Joined: Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:01 am
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
ACC being one of them, yet they admitted Louisville, so gostangs point has merit.sbsmith wrote:Some conferences care more than others
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
SoCal_Pony wrote:ACC being one of them, yet they admitted Louisville, so gostangs point has merit.sbsmith wrote:Some conferences care more than others
Seems like the ACC is desperate (it's about to be hunted and killed by three very hungry predators) so they're tossing standards out the window.
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security
-Benjamin Franklin
-Benjamin Franklin
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
As I've said before many times, who cares about academics..give me wins.
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
fully agree. these are athletic conferences.gostangs wrote:Louisville - u.s. news ranking number 168. Can we stop pretending academics has anything to do with any of this please? It's a joke.
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
I still think the B1G cares.
-
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 29100
- Joined: Thu Sep 21, 2000 3:01 am
- Location: Stonebridge Golf Club, NC
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Comet wrote:I still think the B1G cares.
they want their members to be members of the AAU; Rutgers and Maryland are both members
- East Coast Mustang
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 7435
- Joined: Sat May 21, 2005 8:35 am
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Didn't Nebraska ironically disaffiliate from the AAU shortly after joining the Big Ten?
2005 PonyFans.com Rookie of the Year Award Recipient
- DanFreibergerForHeisman
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 16486
- Joined: Mon Jul 24, 2000 3:01 am
- Contact:
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
Yes. The B1G should kick them out!East Coast Mustang wrote:Didn't Nebraska ironically disaffiliate from the AAU shortly after joining the Big Ten?

Shake It Off Moody
-
- PonyFans.com Super Legend
- Posts: 12315
- Joined: Mon Dec 02, 2002 4:01 am
- Location: Dallas, Texas USA
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
which is weird, since AAU is not necessarily a standard of academic excellence - just a research dollar designation. the whole academic thing is a farce. The driver is money only
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
East Coast Mustang wrote:Didn't Nebraska ironically disaffiliate from the AAU shortly after joining the Big Ten?
That is putting it very nicely -- Nebraska was kicked out of the AAU.
Re: Academic rank as partof re-alignment
My father recently spoke with a man who was the head of the Notre Dame alumni club for a number of years and my dad tells me that one of the reasons Notre Dame left the Big East (among many) was the idea that they didn't want to associate academically with many of the schools coming into the 'new' Big East. Of course, he could have been just being polite to the relative of an SMU grad, but he told my father that SMU was about the only school Notre Dame wanted to associate with academically.
Don't kid yourselves - Tulane would have been brought in for similiar reasons by small private basketball oriented schools who care nothing for football - there are other schools who have shown more of a willingness to compete in athletics than Tulane and would have jumped at the chance to move to the Big East.
Don't kid yourselves - Tulane would have been brought in for similiar reasons by small private basketball oriented schools who care nothing for football - there are other schools who have shown more of a willingness to compete in athletics than Tulane and would have jumped at the chance to move to the Big East.