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[QUOTE="upstater, post: 4018345, member: 153"]
The process to evict Nebraska was begun a whole 2 years before they were evicted. At the time, the committee was dominated by several B1G presidents. Wisconsin's Pres. was the Associate chair and Michigan's pres. lead the committee that chucked Nebraska, and they did this a whole 2 years before Nebraska started the process of B1G admission. After the committee voted to evict them, there was a huge controversy among the general membership (remember, Syracuse was the other school that lost membership). There was a lot of fear that some of the more powerful members would start culling schools. The committee was then reformed with new members, but the leaders were the same: B1G schools.

So, in a very real sense it was the B1G's own doing to evict Nebraska from the AAU.

EDIT: the AAU designated the political pork that Nebraska received in the form of Ag. subsidies as non-research funding. The money was not won through grants or judged by peers, but instead was doled out through the political process.
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