Much like our football stadium being in East Hartford being a negative, the AAU doesn’t like that our medschool is in Farmington.
Because membership in AAU is limited and also because UConn trails many potential aspirants in the metrics that AAU considers important. Among them are federally funded research activity, endowment, number of faculty elected to membership in national academies, output of peer-reviewed publications, and so on. The line forms at the rear, though there are occasional surprises -- Notre Dame's ascension in the latest round, for example. You can see how UConn compares with other schools by going online and studying rankings of research activity, endowments, and other metrics.
It makes no sense. Ned school should have been in hartofrd. I digress
Big East is going to the media market this year or next year right? I hope they don't sign with Fox. With UConn, it is possible the Big East can get a pretty decent deal.
My understanding is that it doesn’t matter where the med school is located. If it’s whether it is part of UConn (Storrs) or not.
Screw aau then. Who are they to tell the state where they put their med school. Bunch of idiots.
I don’t think the location is the issue with the AAU. For example, Nebraska has a med school in Omaha. If the Nebraska-Lincoln campus counted it as its own instead of the Nebraska-Onaha, Nebraska would probably be still be in the AAU. Other than that, I don’t understand the metrics, or frankly, the politics of AAU. They admitted four smaller schools this time around. The research may be a percentage of the school size, explaining why Brandeis, for example, has been in the AAU for a long time.
ND gets preferential treatment as always. The AAU membership was a gift to them from the big 10, awaiting their gracious arrival!
I agree, uconn definitely has to get creative. I wonder what other basketball only schools are being referenced.
Honest question though: if the endgame is to be fully part of a conference, and they agreed join a big conf in bball only and FB scheduling preference, that conf has no financial incentive to add them as a full partner in the future even if FB gets better. Why would they? The conf is getting a better product for nothing. I get the risk of getting completely left without a conf. though. Not sure what is realistic anymore.
