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Graceland Tar Heel wrote:
FSU people began to think that they then had arrived fully and should be bowed to in all things. But FSU will always be silly, sad little brother to UF. No conference membership or TV money can change that. In fact, as TAMU will relearn, the worst thing for a long belittled brother school that greatly values sports successes to do is be in the same athletics conference with the super arrogant and dismissive Big Brother. The sad, silly little brother status is then always reinforced at every turn.

you just described TCU and our return to the P4 world

Frogs will relearn this as well….it’s already dawning on some of their smarter ones

I think I mentioned before that I watched the FSU board meeting when they voted to sue the ACC. The whole bunch are dumber than a load of bricks. The law firm is burning up fees and the board members lapped it up when they were told that SMU was the reason they weren't invited to the playoffs last year as idiotic as that is. Their only hope was to get a locally elected FSU alum assigned as judge to the case. That happened, but nothing is working as planned given that they have nowhere to go.

FSU certainly is eating their words. At least they realized it was a bad look and are trying to walk it back. Comparison to tamu is a little unfair. FSU actually has experienced athletic success. They aren't blindly cult like like the ags and are willing to embrace the 21st century and not stick with weird cheerleaders, pyromaniacs and fake ROTC members. Oh, and their campus is actually attractive.

FSU desperately wants to achieve AAU status and has ramped up the research $$$ to be in the conversation.

But I have to wonder how much their lawsuit shenanigans has pissed off Stanford and Cal (who they directly slandered) and well as the other ACC AAU schools.

East Coast Mustang wrote:FSU desperately wants to achieve AAU status and has ramped up the research $$$ to be in the conversation.

But I have to wonder how much their lawsuit shenanigans has pissed off Stanford and Cal (who they directly slandered) and well as the other ACC AAU schools.

I remember there was a plan for SMU to also have a path for AAU status. Not sure what changed. I get that we donΓÇÖt have a medical school but there are plenty of examples of schools without medical schools that have reached AAU status.

We should not only focus on getting to R1 research status but to get SMU to the elite academic level, we should strive for both. I hope the next President is someone that can take us to those levels while still savvy and knowledgeable to navigate the constantly-evolving college sports landscape.

East Coast Mustang wrote:FSU desperately wants to achieve AAU status and has ramped up the research $$$ to be in the conversation.

But I have to wonder how much their lawsuit shenanigans has pissed off Stanford and Cal (who they directly slandered) and well as the other ACC AAU schools.

That is the reason that when they assumed they were a shoo-in to get whatever they wanted, their fans clearly preferred the BT. They had picked up from academic pawers at FSU that they saw their school as above the SEC in its desire to be AAU and then keep rising in academic status. So they assumed that their recent football history is all that the BT needed to see to crave adding FSU.

But they acted in ways that were certain to make many/most BT and even SEC Presidents/Chancellors cringe.