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Message: [QUOTE="Jetskies, post: 5358773, member: 12253"] [I](disclaimer: I am NOT disagreeing with you, nelsonmuntz)[/I] but [B]DO[/B] they want to? what's the point of all this? to make money.. right? assuming your endowment figures are correct/up-to-date, then obviously LSU wants money.... Vandy and Stanford HAVE money. they probably have tremendous application numbers & heavy tuition/donation income annually. And any gap in fundraising doesn't need to be addressed by becoming a party/saturday school. You lean on your strengths (research, faculty, USNews rankings). However, the following is the whole platform of the SEC, minus-Vandy; mediocre academics, awesome football and parties. that "sec platform" ^ is NOT what Vandy and Stanford and Duke, and Northwestern, etc... want to be at the end of the day. They don't need football success (and the horrible spending that comes with it), and IMO will spend just enough to be competitive but not enough to become the next bama and LSU.....[B][U] and that's ok.[/U][/B] they don't need it, unless the alumni power brokers demand it... which again - I doubt they care about that, the way bama and ole miss alumni care about football. Alabama enrollment didn't shoot up in the last quarter century (19K to 42K) because of their pre-med ranking. [/QUOTE]