I acknowledge that UW has phenomenal research revenue. Do you really think athletic conferences give 2 shits about that in this modern era? I don't. They may want schools that fit a certain mold: big, R1 universities. But beyond that, I don't think they care.
Stanford and Cal are the elite of the elite in terms of research revenue and the B1G had zero interest.
Just be a large, R1 university and you're in as long as your football team brings big TV ratings.
The answer is sports revenue. What was the question?
Do you really think that AD is the only thing factored in here?
lol the answer is not strictly sports revenue. If it was, Oregon would be taken to task on what their numbers look like when they have down years or when the spigot gets turned off. But they haven't been. "Are you UW's Chief rival" was their one box to check.
I understand that the alarms that go off in Anne Arbor when a research factory like UW gets mentioned for realignment do not make a sound on campuses like Oregon and Ohio State.
Schools don't need to just be R1. That's something that schools like Oregon and Oregon State assert. Not Michigan.
Yeah who said that the B1G athletic conference needs to get direct cash for a 1B research school like Michigan, who fucking RUNS them more than Ohio State even, to be like, "Hey, when it comes to raking in hundreds of millions with practical stem research, we now have an incoming peer if we take Washington "
You quooks are around 2 years behind on this topic.
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I acknowledge that UW has phenomenal research revenue. Do you really think athletic conferences give 2 shits about that in this modern era? I don't. They may want schools that fit a certain mold: big, R1 universities. But beyond that, I don't think they care.
Stanford and Cal are the elite of the elite in terms of research revenue and the B1G had zero interest.
Just be a large, R1 university and you're in as long as your football team brings big TV ratings.
The answer is sports revenue. What was the question?
Do you really think that AD is the only thing factored in here?
lol the answer is not strictly sports revenue. If it was, Oregon would be taken to task on what their numbers look like when they have down years or when the spigot gets turned off. But they haven't been. "Are you UW's Chief rival" was their one box to check.
I understand that the alarms that go off in Anne Arbor when a research factory like UW gets mentioned for realignment do not make a sound on campuses like Oregon and Ohio State.
@haie
I obviously don't because I clearly stated that schools needed to be R1, large universities. But that's it.
Oregon is an AAU, R1 university. Why the hell would the B1G care about research revenue beyond these classifications?
Does the B1G get money from UW's research expenditures? How much of UW's research grant IDC rate includes B1G "taxes"?
I'll answer for you. Zero.
Ps fuck you vanilla
Schools don't need to just be R1. That's something that schools like Oregon and Oregon State assert. Not Michigan.
Yeah who said that the B1G athletic conference needs to get direct cash for a 1B research school like Michigan, who fucking RUNS them more than Ohio State even, to be like, "Hey, when it comes to raking in hundreds of millions with practical stem research, we now have an incoming peer if we take Washington "
You quooks are around 2 years behind on this topic.
Ok, die on this hill if you must.
I think we can agree UW isn't in the B1G because of its mascot.
It's not even a hill and no one's dying over this.