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Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Carnegie isn't a ranking, and they'll be the first to tell you that. It's a classification, and as others have pointed out, there are many decidedly mediocre universities that Carnegie classifies as R1. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Any school that isn't open admissions already has different academic standards for athletes. Everyone absolutely does it, not just a bunch of P4 schools. Reno and UNLV reject barely 10% of their applicants, but I'll bet that both have a bunch of football players that would be in that 10%.. Average SAT at Michigan and Ohio State is 1450 and 1400 respectively., and I doubt that their average for football players comes within 400 points of that., and both hide their athletes out in sports management and kinesiology majors to stay eligible. Remember Harbaugh whining that his coaches wouldn't let him major in History, telling him there was no way he could keep up with the reading. And the Ivies/Stanford do the same thing in their own way too--remember the Varsity Blues scandal. Where I think you're on to something is that I could see the P4 scrapping the student-athlete model (charade based on how you look at it) entirely. An athlete who wants a scholarship will get one, but it won't be required. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Huh? So, the big will no longer be an "academic conference" but CUSA will be? -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Hell, the church is going to demand 10% of any NIL deals. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
And nobody who wears normal underwear cares about BYU. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Not really because some schools (Notre Dame, Ohio State and Michigan come to mind) have alumni (and t-shirt fan) bases spread across the country. They turn on televisions from NYC to LA. Is Ohio State's worth related solely to the size of the Columbus media market? Is Houston a more valuable college sports property? Do better. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
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Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Clearly you don't understand liberal arts colleges. You understand that there is a difference, but beyond that, you think that not being major research universities somehow inherently makes them inferior. Try again because the best liberal arts colleges are harder to get into than the best public universities, they have larger endowments when measured on a per-student basis and they put larger percentages of their graduates into elite law, medical schools and Ph.D programs. In addition, you never have to worry about having a 200 student class taught by a graduate student. I have always been a huge proponent of the UC campuses, but if you think that being a graduate of UC Davis is perceived as being more prestigious than having gone to Claremont or Pomona, you're sadly mistaken. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
UCF isn't even the best directional Florida. USF just made it into the AAU. UCF is nowhere near admission. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Yep. In the halls of NASA, lowly graduates of the Ivies, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, Stanford, Berkeley and the other UC campuses, Purdue amd the other B1G schools, Carnegie-Mellon, U-Dub, UVA, UNC, Rice, Texas et al know to make way when a vaunted UCF grad passes by. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Good luck phVcking with the B1G and the SEC on this. Great way to end up being discovered in a dumpster with your severed testicles crammed into your mouth. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
I'd go to Cincinnati over Houston. Cincinnati is actually a great old city, and they've done a lot to revitalize older downtown neighborhoods. I've been to Houston once, and it was just endless miles of soul-sucking sprawl. -
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RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
The notion that Cincy would carry the Cincinnati market was ludicrous. If they're good, they might squeak out a small plurality over Ohio State, Kentucky and Notre Dame (Cincinnati is heavily Catholic) in terms of viewers and fan support. That being said, that support evaporates if they're not winning, and even if they are winning, it doesn't extend outside the metro area to the rest of Ohio in the least. -
Conference Realignment thread
RebelAlliance replied to Did I hear a WOOSH?'s topic in MWC Sports Forum
Only thing that will put ND into the B1G is if their path to the playoff is blocked. Their new tv deal keeps them close enough in revenue, and they don't need the B1G academic alliance anymore to get an AAU invite.