Boise Reconsidering Big East

[Bearcat22]

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.T61KquhSRvw

[Binturong05]

You guys didn't get this in your inbox?

http://www.uc.edu/provost/priorities...ndingpage.html

[cpawstoney]

Boise State athletic director Mark Coyle and San Diego State athletic director Jim Sterk both said their schools were committed to joining in 2013 as football-only schools.

"Nothing's changed. We're here at the conference meetings," Coyle said of the Big East. "It's great to learn a great deal about the conference and the direction and all that."


He said there have been no discussions about staying in the Mountain West. As for a home for the other sports programs, Coyle said there have been continuing talks with the WAC and other leagues.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...o-state-aztecs

[Pruke]

Is it a coincidence that this article comes out today? The University is not just raising its academic profile it is pushing it through the roof.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120521/NEWS/305210023/UC-will-pour-100m-into-academics?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

Great find. There's a clear message here regarding our focus. I love it.

[GoUC11]

suspect it has much more to do with AAU than ACC.

Valid point. However the AAU can be a huge bonus for our chances of getting to the ACC.

If the ACC gets obliterated I don't see how they do not take us.

We immediately bring:
Football respectability
Basketball history and on the upswing
And an emerging academic school

UC is a totally different place from when I applied there in HS ONLY 5 years ago. Now I'm not entirely sure I would get in. Probably would, but not as quickly or easily

[Lobot]

Consider it a love letter addressed to Chapel Hill. I don't suspect Louisville has anything like this in the works. ACC schools value academics over sports IQ.

suspect it has much more to do with AAU than ACC.

[bobestes]

Is it a coincidence that this article comes out today? The University is not just raising its academic profile it is pushing it through the roof.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120521/NEWS/305210023/UC-will-pour-100m-into-academics?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

Consider it a love letter addressed to Chapel Hill. I don't suspect Louisville has anything like this in the works. ACC schools value academics over sports IQ.

[True Bearcat]

Is it a coincidence that this article comes out today? The University is not just raising its academic profile it is pushing it through the roof.

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20120521/NEWS/305210023/UC-will-pour-100m-into-academics?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s

[cpawstoney]

Boise State, which has been in recent talks with the Mountain West Conference about staying in the league instead of leaving next year, has reaffirmed its commitment to join the Big East....

The Broncos have to find a new home for the rest of its sports programs after the WAC was nearly gutted after defections to the Mountain West, Sun Belt and Conference USA left the WAC with only four remaining members for 2013 -- Denver, Seattle, New Mexico State and Idaho.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...-official-says

[Binturong05]

I can't see OSU And the big ten letting it happen. They have a ton of sway.

9 of 61 are members of the Big Ten per my count for 14.75% of the AAU members. While no doubt a large percentage to hail from a single "big six" conference (most other members are not so athletically focused) it is not enough to effectively block UC. 75% of members must affirmatively vote to admit a new member school so even if the Big Ten were to theoretically gang up on UC they couldn't block the admission without forming a supra-conference coalition.

Note that according to one prominant credit rating company UC is one of 109 US universities that satisfy the definition of national research univeristy as follows - U.S. colleges, universities and university systems that report more than 10% of operating revenues from grants and contracts and generate more than $500 million in total operating revenues. This definition is broader than, but overlaps with, other definitions which are based on different criteria (e.g.: the number of research citations or the number of PhDs generated). The largest research universities belong to the American Association of Universities (AAU), an association of the largest 61 research universities in the US and Canada.

Looking at the admission criteria on the AAU website it appears UC would be on the short list of the remaining 50 US universities to be considered for membership.

[bobestes]

Have we been invited or heard that we are being invited? My understanding is it's a fairly secretive process. I know Nebraska was recently kicked out and Syracuse left. I'm just curious if there are any reference articles for this or if it is just speculation. It would be good for UC if it is true.

I can't see OSU And the big ten letting it happen. They have a ton of sway.

[bearcatd]

We are on the verge of cracking the AAU.

Have we been invited or heard that we are being invited? My understanding is it's a fairly secretive process. I know Nebraska was recently kicked out and Syracuse left. I'm just curious if there are any reference articles for this or if it is just speculation. It would be good for UC if it is true.

[GoUC11]

There is no way the academic bluebloods of UNC and Duke are going to be in a conference with USF or Cincinnati.

Also if you haven't noticed..UC is no academic slouch like it used to be. We are on the verge of cracking the AAU. And no matter what they say, $$$ and survival will trump academics.

[richard k.]

There is no way the academic bluebloods of UNC and Duke are going to be in a conference with USF or Cincinnati.

But they might with UofL?

[bobestes]

There is no way the academic bluebloods of UNC and Duke are going to be in a conference with USF or Cincinnati.