GwinnettGamecock v. the Big Ten: Not a Fair Fight
We're going to have to give the Big Ten time to go get a few more guys.
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That's funny.
I’d be lying if I said the sweetness of that story wasn’t enhanced by a touch of AAU sour grapes where UGA is concerned, but I swear, it was almost impossible to read anything about conference expansion last year without someone’s noting (fervently) that AAU membership was a prerequisite to consideration for membership in the Big 10.
UGA and Nebraska are in the same boat when it comes to AAU membership;
Big, state chartered universities with good Ag programs and no medical school attached. One of AAU’s criteria is research $ per professor, but they don’t count monies from the USDA for research because those monies are too politically connected or something, so all the great Ag professors are dead weight according to AAU standards because they don’t add anything to the pot of evaluated money but get counted in terms of $ per professor. And the med school thing is a huge drawback because that generates huge amounts of research money per faculty member.
I do find it funny that at least one or two Big 10 universities voted against Nebraska and all big 12 universities in the AAU voted to keep Nebraska in it.
With apologies to my friends in Augusta
I’m very optimistic about the University of Georgia College of Medicine at Normaltown.
by NCT on May 4, 2011 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions
I agree.
That could significantly boost UGA’s academic perception around the country.
And I just reread my post. I didn’t do a very good job of representing the University’s academic perception with that run on sentence up there, haha.
Don't worry, UGAVike; your fine point came through loud and clear.
GwinnettGamecock is absolutely right that the AAU’s regional bias is showing. It’s one thing for it to be held against the University System of Georgia that the engineering school is in Atlanta, the medical school is in Augusta, and everything else is located in Athens (broadly speaking, of course), but to ignore agricultural research dollars is asinine and condescending. When the AAU admitted Texas A&M, did it close its left eye and focus only on the letter after the ampersand?
While University of Michigan engineers have been running the Detroit auto industry, agricultural research at the University of Nebraska (and at a lot of other land-grant institutions in the Heartland and in the South) has been helping to feed the country. In which company would you rather own stock right now, ADM or GMC?
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