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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 654618, member: 175"] Thing is UConn is a much better school than Kansas (21 v 51 among public schools in USNWR, 140 v 390 in Forbes, etc.). But Kansas entered the AAU club during the Taft administration. Sort of annoyed that the academic side of UConn didn't push for AAU status decades ago. There's no reason why the school should have allowed itself to be viewed as inferior to its peers. But perhaps they had "we're just a small state"-itis and felt more in common with URI, UMass, UNH, and Delaware than with the AAU crew. Of course, I also probably wouldn't care about AAU status at all if it wasn't affecting our sports teams now, so I guess I'm not the right person to complain about that. [/QUOTE]