+1000 to you and bcoach.DoubleA wrote:I don't know. I am just one that thinks this whole academic association thing is not really that big a concern to the schools. If it was a real factor for duke they would be in conference with the ivy league schools. I truly think that the driving force is money. If academic standing were the driving force we would not have gone to the sun belt we would have stayed where we were.
Bingo, you hit the nail on the head.
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I don't know. I am just one that thinks this whole academic association thing is not really that big a concern to the schools. If it was a real factor for duke they would be in conference with the ivy league schools. I truly think that the driving force is money. If academic standing were the driving force we would not have gone to the sun belt we would have stayed where we were.
I don't disagree with you that money is driving "this" bus. But to compare the future to our move to the Sun Belt is not an apples-to-apples comparison. We are talking about universities aligning with members of their ilk with student-athletes. If you remove the student portion from the equation some schools may not want to participate in that venture. Schools like Duke, Vandy and Stanford don't need television money and conference affiliation to survive.
I don't disagree with you that money is driving "this" bus. But to compare the future to our move to the Sun Belt is not an apples-to-apples comparison. We are talking about universities aligning with members of their ilk with student-athletes. If you remove the student portion from the equation some schools may not want to participate in that venture. Schools like Duke, Vandy and Stanford don't need television money and conference affiliation to survive.