Ray Dunaway reports UConn to AAU inside a year?

[upstater]

Too simplistic. There's funding for the facilities and equipment that makes obtaining research funding a near shoe-in and allows curve fitting grant appropriations to the Institutes as a high=percentage pass through. Michigan States cyclotron was one such example. Albany's nano-tech investment is a more current one.

But that has nothing to do with the AAU. For instance, Albany got $14 billion in government and private grants for Nanotech. $14 billion!!!!!!!!!! Are they AAU? No. Yes, I know, there is lobbyist pork available in the form of research grants. Many schools take advantage of it. Some like Cincy and USF in our own conference.

And yet these schools are not in the AAU. Why? Because their grants are pipelined through the lobbying process. Not peer-reviewed. Heck, if these were ever considered, a school like PSU which is basically a wing of the Department of Defense would have a totally different stature.

 

[huskymedic]

Please tell me someone has pictures of him.....

& there is no Fn way our Admins are that smooth...

Hell - he played football @ UConn in 64-65.

 

[WhaleEER]

While I only heard about a half hour of the show this morning, I did not hear him say that. They were talking about State employees with high retirement payouts and a couple of UConn professors came up. The guest may have been from the Yankee Institute. I believe Ray said the he thinks the AAU might be UConn's end goal. He did not give any sort of timetable or "done deal" while I was listening.

 

[pj]

Smooth enough to have this board thinking we are going to stay in the A-12, whatever it'll be called.

Why does Herbst want us thinking we'll be in the A-12?

 

[husky210]

How smooth is she?

I know a guy that knows of someone who witnessed firsthand the silky smoothness

 

[Fishy]

When do we get to the point where all of us admit that we barely know what the AAU is, let alone what their plans are or how they operate?

If you guys are ready, I'm there.

 

[mavblues]

When do we get to the point where all of us admit that we barely know what the AAU is, let alone what their plans are or how they operate?

If you guys are ready, I'm there.

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Crap. I thought we were talking about the Amateur Athletic Union. Wait - then what does the AAU have to do with sports, I'm sooo confused!

 

[buckley503]

Just ask Faye Dunaway. She probably knows as much as Ray Dunaway.

 

[HobokenHusky]

When do we get to the point where all of us admit that we barely know what the AAU is, let alone what their plans are or how they operate?

If you guys are ready, I'm there.

ALL I KNOW IS WE NEED TO BE PART OF THE CLUB FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE US AND I WANT PEOPLE TO LIKE US

Also, Upstater - did not know there was such a thing as "lobbyist pork" before today, so thank you for that.

 

[ZooCougar]

How smooth is she?

She is so novel!

 

[mavblues]

Crap. I thought we were talking about the Amateur Athletic Union. Wait - then what does the AAU have to do with sports, I'm sooo confused!

The first rule of AAU is...

Never discuss AAU.

 

[upstater]

ALL I KNOW IS WE NEED TO BE PART OF THE CLUB FOR PEOPLE TO LIKE US AND I WANT PEOPLE TO LIKE US

Also, Upstater - did not know there was such a thing as "lobbyist pork" before today, so thank you for that.

There's also hobbyist pork. But I leave that to your google.

 

[noeynox]

I had no idea about any AAU stuff until the big 10 expansion of a few years ago.

 

[CAHUSKY]

There's also hobbyist pork. But I leave that to your google.

I do occasional BBQ catering gigs and consider myself a pork hobbyist.

 

[BugsyCT]

We're not really sure what the AAU is or does, but it sounds pretty snazzy to have a member's club card.

http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5474

 

[UCFBfan]

We're not really sure what the AAU is or does, but it sounds pretty snazzy to have a member's club card.

http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5474

I want to know how a school gets to have the word "The" in front of its name? Why is it The John's Hopkins University. Why is it The Pennsylvania State University and why is it just University of Florida? How come only some NFL players on Sunday Night Football get to say THE blah blah blah college? I want it to be THE University of Connecticut. THE UConn.

 

[Fishy]

It seems to have to do with the placement of the 'university' in the name.

While the University of Connecticut is obviously the university of the state of Connecticut, things are less clear for Ohio State University or Pennsylvania State University.

Are they the Ohio state university or are they just an Ohio state university? This question was debated endlessly by scholars, citizens and people who make college tee shirts. It wasn't until someone said, "Hey, duck* this. Let's own this bitch!" that a solution was found.

They stuck a "The" in front of Ohio State and Penn State and then instructed their former players in the NFL to be sure to say it that way during their MNF intros. (At around the same time, former Miami players began to say they were from the "U", but that's only because they frequently forgot the word "Miami" or even that the place where they had spent their college-aged years was in fact a university and not, as they believed, a sleep-away football camp.)

And that is how it happened.

 

[HobokenHusky]

It seems to have to do with the placement of the 'university' in the name.

While the University of Connecticut is obviously the university of the state of Connecticut, things are less clear for Ohio State University or Pennsylvania State University.

Are they the Ohio state university or are they just an Ohio state university? This question was debated endlessly by scholars, citizens and people who make college tee shirts. It wasn't until someone said, "Hey, duck* this. Let's own this bitch!" that a solution was found.

They stuck a "The" in front of Ohio State and Penn State and then instructed their former players in the NFL to be sure to say it that way during their MNF intros. (At around the same time, former Miami players began to say they were from the "U", but that's only because they frequently forgot the word "Miami" or even that the place where they had spent their college-aged years was in fact a university and not, as they believed, a sleep-away football camp.)

And that is how it happened.

Sleep away football camp? Huh. "Brothel" and "coke party" we're the first words that came to mind for me.

 

[CL82]

I know a guy that knows of someone who witnessed firsthand the silky smoothness

Mmmm, silky smoothness

 

[CTGoonie]

So Cowen was named Chairman of the AAU on 10/24/12. Tulane admitted to BE on 11/26/12. Assuming Uconn led the way for Tulane to be admitted this can only mean Herbst scratched his back now it's his turn...

 

[kibblesnbits]

We're not really sure what the AAU is or does, but it sounds pretty snazzy to have a member's club card.

http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5474

It looks like Canada is woefully under represented. If we let our friends North of the border annex Connecticut we should be in the AAU in no time.

 

[huskymedic]

So Cowen was named Chairman of the AAU on 10/24/12. Tulane admitted to BE on 11/26/12. Assuming Uconn led the way for Tulane to be admitted this can only mean Herbst scratched his back now it's his turn...

Tulane was lead to the conference by UCF President Hitt (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/spor...anes-move-to-big-east-20130129,0,6310791.post) but that doesn't mean that SH was vocally against it from an academic profile standpoint and realized the future Husky benefit/connection.