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[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[Forte]

Honest question ... why does UConn have such a hard time building a large endowment etc. Do we have less successful grads?

 

[mikeinmanila]

Honest question ... why does UConn have such a hard time building a large endowment etc. Do we have less successful grads?

Basically up until Herbst, it was never emphasized (with an over reliance on state funding) so we fell woefully behind, making it that much more difficult to catch up. That said, UConn needs to work the heavy hitters in Fairfield County and continue to increase the percentage of alums who give a small amount monthly.

 

[Hoophound]

Honest question ... why does UConn have such a hard time building a large endowment etc. Do we have less successful grads?

It’s because New England is full of great colleges, and UConn has never tried very hard to increase the endowment. In recent years, they’ve been pushing harder and getting more donations, but that’s not the way it was during the 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s and early 2000s.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don’t think Memphis fits with the pac schools.. higher education is important to them

I think replacing USF with Tulsa would make more sense.

USF is vastly better from a research perspective.

 

[UConnJim]

Honest question ... why does UConn have such a hard time building a large endowment etc. Do we have less successful grads?

Besides the late start, the biggest issue with the the endowment relative to other schools is compounding of principal over decades. If you return 7% per year, your money will double in a decade.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Basically up until Herbst, it was never emphasized (with an over reliance on state funding) so we fell woefully behind, making it that much more difficult to catch up. That said, UConn needs to work the heavy hitters in Fairfield County and continue to increase the percentage of alums who give a small amount monthly.

And until the rise of UConn driven by the basketball program in the 1990's, UConn was an afterthought academically, financially, etc, to the a large majroity of the private schools spread across New England and New York.

 

[huskidork]

surprised that the PAC 4 would be willing to make x-country trips to USF. memphis makes more sense imo. better at football and bball and half the distance.

smu/rice/tulane/memphis is a nice pod, with the PAC 4 being another. the last pod should be the 4 most attractive MW schools: SDSU, Boise, CSU, UNLV?

they despite having the high end education don't really think smart, tulsa has a better chance than boise or memphis simply cause of academics, which is insanely stupid and limits them severely

 

[dayooper]

Lifted from another board:

 

[Jimdish255]

That correction was a bad idea. It now seems like the Big 10 and SEC are acting as a cartel.

It's always been a Cartel.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[uchusky32]

UConn just posted they would pay the ACC $10 mill a year for entry.

Balling!

 

[Exit 4]

UConn just posted they would pay the ACC $10 mill a year for entry.

Balling!

????

 

[DCUconnfan]

UConn just posted they would pay the ACC $10 mill a year for entry.

Balling!

?

 

[August_West]

Aren't they all non-key until one proves true?

There are 18000 posts in the key tweets thread not a single one is a key tweet.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

If true Memphis fans will be apoplectic falling behind Rice, Tulane and USF.

Tulane problem is they simply didn’t view sport’s as important to an educational institution. Memphis problem is they don’t view academics as important to an educational institution . The thing with a school like Tulane they can get back in the game with a smart investment In sports , with Memphis the hill is a lot steeper .

 

[uchusky32]

????

Worth a shot.

 

[Khal Drogo]

Why would they invite Stanford. They’ll be conference champs in every sport. Two more losses for BC and Syracuse

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[superjohn]

Why would they invite Stanford. They’ll be conference champs in every sport. Two more losses for BC and Syracuse

Not sure what's real or trolling here anymore, the California schools are horrible in the two sports that matter.

 

[CL82]

Nothing can happen unless ESPN writes a check for the schools. Yet we are left in the hinterlands.