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The AAC is filled with large institutions with deep pockets like Houston, UCF, USF, Cinny, Memphis. Five schools have over 40,000 students.
The BE is filled with tiny catholic schools like Nova, G'town, Providence, Butler. The Giants are SJU and DePaul touching 20,000 students, virtually all the rest have less than 10,000.
This move smells of panic. My guess is that the state of Connecticut's ever diminishing support of UConn is the primary driver. Once an economic powerhouse that is no longer the case. Over the course of Herbst’s tenure, UConn’s state funding has slipped dramatically. The university lost $80.1 million in state appropriations to budget cuts and fund sweeps between 2010 and 2019, forcing UConn to scale back all of its departments. This has been a long term trend.
While the state has generously funded physical developments like buildings, day to day operations are squeezed. UConn may not have the resources to compete in the AAC. And while the school may still grow, that doesn't seem to be the case with the state.
It was fun while it lasted. Hello Creighton.
The BE is filled with tiny catholic schools like Nova, G'town, Providence, Butler. The Giants are SJU and DePaul touching 20,000 students, virtually all the rest have less than 10,000.
This move smells of panic. My guess is that the state of Connecticut's ever diminishing support of UConn is the primary driver. Once an economic powerhouse that is no longer the case. Over the course of Herbst’s tenure, UConn’s state funding has slipped dramatically. The university lost $80.1 million in state appropriations to budget cuts and fund sweeps between 2010 and 2019, forcing UConn to scale back all of its departments. This has been a long term trend.
While the state has generously funded physical developments like buildings, day to day operations are squeezed. UConn may not have the resources to compete in the AAC. And while the school may still grow, that doesn't seem to be the case with the state.
It was fun while it lasted. Hello Creighton.