hardcorehusky
Lost patience with the garden variety UConn fan
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my bad- wishful thinking on how she treated UCONN.
Why would Malloy do anything when even the AD and President have been silent?
The whole state is treating this like the quiet game. Whoever stays silent the longest wins! Gotta make sure we don't say anything to upset the AAC for some reason...
And then when we don't get in, we'll be assured simultaneously that we did all we could do, and that nothing could be done
Yeah, this entire post is inaccurate.Why would Malloy do anything when even the AD and President have been silent?
The whole state is treating this like the quiet game. Whoever stays silent the longest wins! Gotta make sure we don't say anything to upset the AAC for some reason...
And then when we don't get in, we'll be assured simultaneously that we did all we could do, and that nothing could be done
What's inaccurate about it? You may disagree with how I feel about their silence, but the silence itself isn't debatable.Yeah, this entire post is inaccurate.
And your winning approach is ????For the love of God keep CT politicians out of this
Kasich to Big 12: Let UC in
Kasich going to bat for Cincinnati now SMH.
Letter dated July 12th? Was it embargoed till today (break glass if needed) or did they just find it. Strange timing IMO
Presidential candidates, and congress may sometimes push for more research in a particular field or a big project like the human genome or the precision medicine initiative or the cancer moonshot. Sometimes politicians will put out a press release about a particular study in social science, say, something about teen pregnancy rates and sex ed and prophylactics, and then use that as a sound byte for social conservatives. They might do earmarks for their home district (I think they got rid of earmarks though obviously there are other huge issues). But politicians do not get involved in the awarding of grants to this university or that.Before discounting the importance of Obama et. al., just remember where most grants come from -- the federal government. No university -- especially the ones that do a lot of research -- wants to disregard a friendly call from a current, former or future president or their high-placed representative.
Presidential candidates, and congress may sometimes push for more research in a particular field or a big project like the human genome or the precision medicine initiative or the cancer moonshot. Sometimes politicians will put out a press release about a particular study in social science, say, something about teen pregnancy rates and sex ed and prophylactics, and then use that as a sound byte for social conservatives. They might do earmarks for their home district (I think they got rid of earmarks though obviously there are other huge issues). But politicians do not get involved in the awarding of grants to this university or that.
Which is not the same thing as urging the NIH to remove funding for, say, UT-Austin.Oh really. Here is one example from The Courant last year: Saying Connecticut has shouldered "more of the cuts than other states," U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy has urged the head of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to restore funding for cancer and other disease research at Yale University and other institutions.
Murphy Pushes NIH To Increase Research Funding To State
The political play is you make it clear to ESPN they put UConn in a P5 or there will be a new revenue enhancement on sports network ad revenue to help maintain UConn athletics which will be about the 2x the cost to ESPN as UConn moving to the Big12. It's time we started playing hard ball with folks that have undermined this state's flagship school. I would make it clear that there are plenty of creative ways to not make it worth their while. If Connecticut is good for anything it's that it has mastered the game of bleeding people dry through taxes, courtesy of 25 years of blue state mismanagement.I'm a Green/Democrat... and I will say that we do not want Malloy in the middle of this for reasons of perception, reminding them that we are 'blue' or because he will f-it up. Let's keep this about economics because there is no political play here for us; we just need to point out the value we bring relative to the other candidates and subtley remind the non-TX schools how to much more power UT gets if they take UH as part of a +2.
I am noticing pitchforks...
What is his woefully unqualified budget director/bitch boy Ben Barnes gonna do then?Except he's not running for re-election and may not make it through this term. He's angling to be Hillary's transportation secretary.
What is his woefully unqualified budget director/bitch boy Ben Barnes gonna do then?
Yeah..I don't think so.Be the woefully unqualified budget director for the next governor, duh!
Letter dated July 12th? Was it embargoed till today (break glass if needed) or did they just find it. Strange timing IMO