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Exactly. What are Oregon and Washington going to do when everyone says no?
I would be a big advocate of CU going to the B1G and saying they would take a substantially reduced payout throughout this entire media deal.
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That would be so funny if against all odds it was cu and Utah that got scooped up to the big 10. Oregon and Washington reactions would be priceless.
I'd laugh so hard that I'd piss myself to death.
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I am sure we have covered this, but what if Prime has specifically said to send us to the BIG12 because it connects him to everywhere he wants to go recruit, and just like the PAC, he knows we could dominate there?
Then, we comin'.
If a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass hopping.*
College should be the celebration of applied intelligence and excellence in a particular field
Not every athlete wants a career in athletics. Also, there aren't enough jobs in the field if everyone who played college sports tried to work in the field the next 40 years of their lives.College should be the celebration of applied intelligence and excellence in a particular field
We want the best doctors that need to study medicine
We want the best lawyers that need to study law
Football, Lacrosse, E-Sports, Social Media Influence, Robotics, whatever is the mastery of a job or career
Amazed we do not just go and set the trend on Nutrition, Fitness, Exercise, Public Speaking, Finance, Charitable Work, Politics, etc. to help someone get a degree in Sports Management, oh yeah we have that, why is this not the overall Degree Program that every Football player just goes through?
I’ve yet to hear a compelling argument about why a University can’t maintain its academic prestige and mission while being in the same athletic conference as Universities with “lesser” academic reputations. Texas did it for a very long time with no real problem and the money and athletic prestige is what drove them to the SEC, not academics.
I don't know.
I'm not sure whether or not I'm agreeing with your perspective.
Would all of their former students still start every sentence with, “when I was at Harvard”?
Do they still have some of the most rigorous admission requirements, best professors, etc that currently make them one of the most prestigious Universities in the world in that hypothetical, or do they drop all that to be on par with the admissions of the other AAC programs? Because if it’s the former, you are basically saying that Harvard’s prestige most comes from being associated with Princeton, Yale, etc.
I don't know what I think yet. So to work through it I started with what I'd consider the ultimate example of a case where it could be true. If it's not true there, it's not true anywhere. If it would compromise research partnerships, reputation, donation or academic performance negatively, then that means it does compromise university mission and other cases would be a matter of degree. Also, that the impact could be real, but be surmounted by the positive impacts on academics due to exposure, positive branding, attracting more diversity, increased revenues & booster support, etc.
Close. They like to do the fake humble of, "when I was in Cambridge"
“When I was in school in Boston…”
Or drowning
I’m not sure the correlation between academics and conference affiliation is really that strong. It seems to me that since we left the Pac-12, our academic reputation has gone down.
I can relate, I went to my particular undergrad because I got nearly a full ride to play baseball. I had a chance to play independent ball after school, but I had already traded my right arm for a heavily subsidized education. I chose to move on, that lack of drive might be why I wasn't great, but it was the deal I made in my head when I accepted the scholarship.
