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re: Any Ideas on what happens to the Big12 and PacW?
Posted on 2/14/23 at 12:38 pm to dstone12
Posted on 2/14/23 at 12:38 pm to dstone12
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It means absolutely nothing to me.
That is because you are not a college president
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Can’t tell me for a moment that they would take GT and not Uga due to affiliation to the AAU.
This is probably true. Just weird they voted Nebraska out out of the AAU (B1G schools casting the deciding votes to expel) after they vote Nebraska in to the B1G
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*the AAU is an amazing club to belong to, btw. But it does want mean a thing to tv revenue.
It has always been anti South from the start. Tulane, GT, UNC, and Duke were later. UGA is better than several actual AAU schools but GT was the "research" of the two.
You are right that it does not do much for TV revenue but college sports are really glorified infomercials to get kids to go there. What you are missing is the real money maker at universities (at least since the 80's).
Look at the recent B1G additions
Rutgers - sure B1G gets to claim they invented football but what they really got was a research school
Maryland - not exactly a football powerhouse but historically solid basketball and a research school
Johns Hopkins - in 2021 did a whopping ~3.2 BILLION in research. How many sports programs combined would it take to do 3.2 Billion a year? Michigan does about half of that at 1.6 Billion
The last things colleges care about these days is actually educating kids. Entertainment (via say sports) is somewhere in the middle. Top priority for college presidents and their boards is locking down research grants and spending the money.
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Posted on 2/14/23 at 6:37 pm to Cheese Grits
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That is because you are not a college president
Uhhh. So is about 99% percent of all Saturday college football watchers
Posted on 2/17/23 at 1:51 pm to Cheese Grits
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It has always been anti South from the start. Tulane, GT, UNC, and Duke were later. UGA is better than several actual AAU schools but GT was the "research" of the two.
While splitting up the different academic disciplines among three state schools initially helped them all, it did eventually hurt UGA as far as research funding goes, especially not having the medical school as well as the engineering funds being siphoned off to GT. However, in recent decades, the biomolecular research at UGA has exploded, and plenty of research done via the vet school and the ag sector (mainly chickens) has brought in some big chunks of change. Those labs are just not as front and center as at some schools. Its still small engineering program also is forming some profitable ties to big firms like Siemens.
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