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[QUOTE="Pudge, post: 1362752, member: 364"]
How do you think lobbying is done in the academic world?
 
This is a serious question.  I find enormous humor in this idea that Warde Manuel or Susan Herbst lost OUR ACC bid because they did not make a few phone calls in crucial weeks.  Or went to Bermuda to watch our BB team.
 
This is about relationships.  This is about nurturing OUR University and raising it's academic stature.  No - as Berry Tramel of the Oklahoman states - our football prowess is down.  But, I believe the B1G (and the Pac12 ... and divergently the SEC) are playing a far different game than the ACC or B12.  This is about a reach of one conference in business relationships far into Academics and into the Brand/Sports Revenue.  I believe the key outliers of the ACC and the B12 are targets ... particularly as the dollars disparity has gone from $22m to $50m.  Change is coming.
 
Overtures.  We are regularly connecting with presidents at B1G schools.  We know Rutgers did for a half decade per FOIL disclosures.
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