OT: Assoc of Am Univ to add members
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Maybe AZ if they want another west cost team (I know AZ is not on the coast for those nitpickers here)
I was just coming here to post this information. I'm somewhat surprised by Miami and USF being on the list. I hadn't realized that Miami had such a large research/graduate school component.
The absence of UConn, which has been striving to make it into the AAU, was a bit surprising. Syracuse, notably, has not been able to position itself so as to be able to be re-admitted into the organization after removing itself several years ago before being booted out due to insufficient research spending, the fate that Nebraska suffered a year or two after being admitted into the B1G.
On a partially related note of potential interest to those who enjoy Rutgers' history, about two weeks ago, I visited the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1766, Dutch Reformed church ministers from Utrecht founded what would become Rutgers University to train church ministers for the "colonies."
I had the chance to talk a bit with an historian in Utrecht and learned that the University has followed a similar path to that of RU, starting out as a small, primarily liberal arts (the classics) school and evolving over time, to a large, diverse (academically) university of more than 30,000 students, with a strong research component. It is now a member of the European equivalent of the AAU.
Utrecht is the sister university of Rutgers and was the donor of the statue of Willie the Silent (aka, William of Orange) that stands on the College Avenue campus. Its coat of arms features the sunburst symbol familiar to all RU alumni, with the motto "May the sun of justice shine upon us" that was altered a little bit to "May the sun of justice shine upon the West also," to reflect the geographical shift from the Netherlands to North America.
The absence of UConn, which has been striving to make it into the AAU, was a bit surprising. Syracuse, notably, has not been able to position itself so as to be able to be re-admitted into the organization after removing itself several years ago before being booted out due to insufficient research spending, the fate that Nebraska suffered a year or two after being admitted into the B1G.
On a partially related note of potential interest to those who enjoy Rutgers' history, about two weeks ago, I visited the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. In 1766, Dutch Reformed church ministers from Utrecht founded what would become Rutgers University to train church ministers for the "colonies."
I had the chance to talk a bit with an historian in Utrecht and learned that the University has followed a similar path to that of RU, starting out as a small, primarily liberal arts (the classics) school and evolving over time, to a large, diverse (academically) university of more than 30,000 students, with a strong research component. It is now a member of the European equivalent of the AAU.
Utrecht is the sister university of Rutgers and was the donor of the statue of Willie the Silent (aka, William of Orange) that stands on the College Avenue campus. Its coat of arms features the sunburst symbol familiar to all RU alumni, with the motto "May the sun of justice shine upon us" that was altered a little bit to "May the sun of justice shine upon the West also," to reflect the geographical shift from the Netherlands to North America.
I really hope that none of this happens and that the B1G stays at 16. I certainly don't care to see Miami in the conference.
The more rational move, if the Pac12 is to break apart, is the have the four mountain time schools join the B12, bringing it to 16. That would sadly result in the virtual demise of the Pac!2, as the potential replacements, SD State aside, do not have the standing of the major flagship state universities (plus ASU) of the mountain time schools.
The Pac12's inability to negotiate an acceptable TV contract has been very harmful to its cause. I live in Tucson, near the UofA. Pretty much everyone here seems to favor staying in the Pac12 but it needs to come up with an acceptable contract.