Gray Again

[Ha Who]

I am disappointed in Gray. Up to now I have avoided comment. It is unacceptable for him to "express"his thoughts in this manner. Now if his sources said that UCONN's BOT's are meeting Friday to vote on an invitation to xxx conference, I would call that acceptable

 

[upstater]

A few things, first I recommend this internal paper from Binghamton Univ. on their roadmap to AAU, explains the criteria for being invited and references UConn. Also note their theme name "Go B1g on research; Becoming an international leader in STEM. It's like they were looking over Suzie H's shoulder and copying her paper.

http://www.binghamton.edu/president/road-map/proposals/RR1.pdf

There is this internal UConn peer evaluation from 2012 which reinforces that UConn is on the bubble for AAU. Only 3 schools on this list are 58 research and top 30 but not AAU. UConn, Va Tech and UGA.

http://www.oir.uconn.edu/UConn_Peer_Groups_October_2012.pdf

There is @Dooley s website which compares some key metrics against other AAU schools:

http://www.uconnfactorfiction.com/

And lastly a loop of message board chatter that started here in March of 2013 whe Ray Dunaway reported UConn would be in the AAU by end of the year. No doubt Dunaway and Gray meet for coffee on the weekends.

Wouldn't the key for Binghamton be to receive $1.5b from the state? The odd thing is that such a plan does exist for SUNY's flagship school Buffalo: https://docs.google.com/gview?url=h...ffalo-Billion-Investment-Development-Plan.pdf

The Buffalo Billion is headed by UB's president, and most of the money goes through UB's regional institute. This is mainly seed money for start-ups to open shop in a tax-free zone around the campus.

 

[jostar1]

I am disappointed in Gray. Up to now I have avoided comment. It is unacceptable for him to "express"his thoughts in this manner. Now if his sources said that UCONN's BOT's are meeting Friday to vote on an invitation to xxx conference, I would call that acceptable

I agree. I think it is inappropriate. I don't know how he gets away with it on the UConn Flagship Radio Station.

 

[Husky25]

Gray has indicated that the ticket taker at the last football game told him that the B1G invite would be by the end of 2015. The "UConn Official" then urged him to please bring a non-forged ticket for next game, given the extremely low prices.

Unfortunately, the ticket taker is not a UConn Official. He's be scanning tickets next month at the USMNT soccer game next month too. UConn is a customer of Global Spectrum. The ticket scanner is an employee.