Another article by AP: Other sports may boost UConn's ACC resume

[Rumrunner]

Other sports may boost UConn's ACC resume Sept. 23, 2011, 3:33 p.m. EDT Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) —The discussion over where Connecticut might fit in a revised college conference landscape has centered around the school's football and basketball programs, but University President Susan Herbst says there are other key considerations.

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/i...s-acc-resume/28236082a19a42baa2cc7bad5fd240b2

Written by Pat Robb, AP's CT writer

 

[nelsonmuntz]

That story reads like something out of the Onion. And like onions, it makes me want to cry.

 

[Rumrunner]

Agreed. If you're going to push this angle, push the soccer #1 ranking, baseball in the regionals, women's soccer v. Unc, etc. Basically, UConn is the Anti-Rutgers angle.

 

[ctchamps]

Funny thing is after this all settles ( and hopefully it ends up positively for UConn) we will have gotten a lot of free press nationally letting all potential athletes and students know how good UConn is.

 

[arnie3]

I was thinking the same thing, fleudslipcon. There has been incredibly favorable press over the past week for UConn. Somehow it's like we're earning an "underdog" status, and the press is exploring the positives of this program!

 

[Rumrunner]

http://content.usatoday.com/communi...-all-sports-will-factor-in-schools-decision/1

USA Today writer basically copying the above AP story. Definitely sniffing a little of the women's sports angle. Those ivory tower ACC admins can't be anti-women's sports...can they?

 

[Danzz]

Other sports may boost UConn's ACC resume Sept. 23, 2011, 3:33 p.m. EDT Associated Press STORRS, Conn. (AP) —The discussion over where Connecticut might fit in a revised college conference landscape has centered around the school's football and basketball programs, but University President Susan Herbst says there are other key considerations.

http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/i...s-acc-resume/28236082a19a42baa2cc7bad5fd240b2

Written by Pat Robb, AP's CT writer

Those other sports are nice but almost irrelevant from the ACC perspective.

 

[Rumrunner]

True, but "almost" doesn't mean the same as "completely". It looks like Herbst knows the difference.

 

[businesslawyer]

Smart comment. If public institutions, acting together, squeeze UConn out of the big time, it will be a setback for women's athletics and she is signaling Congress that maybe someone should be concerned about that and whether public institutions should be able to do that under title IX. Without actually making a controversial statement.

 

[Scalito]

UCONN to the ACC is a women's rights issue! Time for the EEOC to intervene. The ACC might have violated Title IX!

 

[TRest]

UCONN to the ACC is a women's rights issue! Time for the EEOC to intervene. The ACC might have violated Title IX!

Blumenthal's Bat Phone is ringing off the hook.

 

[Rumrunner]

Women's issues aren't big in academia. Especially at the top level institutions. Not important at all. Cough.

 

[Danzz]

Women's issues aren't big in academia. Especially at the top level institutions. Not important at all. Cough.

Nobody said they weren't important issues. They just aren't much of a factor for Uconn getting into the ACC. Cough.

 

[Scalito]

Women's issues aren't big in academia. Especially at the top level institutions. Not important at all. Cough.

If women's athletics were that important to them, we wouldn't need Title IX would we? Schools would make decisions in the interests of men and women athletes, and we wouldn't structure our conferences around men's football.

Take off your blinders. As politically astute as Herbst's comments are, colleges care about women's issues to the extent it does't burden the colleges. Just like they care about academics and integrity, up until either hurts the bottom line.

 

[noeynox]

That article sure sounded like Herbst was reaching.