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<blockquote data-quote="champaignchris" data-source="post: 1212931" data-attributes="member: 26283"><p>When Big 10 elites talk about "academic fit" or "academic profile" they are not talking about US News undergraduate rankings. As long as those are respectable, they don't matter. What they are taking about is research endowment. Particularly how many hundreds of millions of dollars are in them. </p><p></p><p>The Big Ten wants universities that bring resources to the table in terms of bringing more grants to current Big 10 schools. You may be top-whatever in undergraduate whatever major, but do you have a hyper-super-duper radio wave accelerator micro-electron scope that our research profs can borrow?</p><p></p><p>The research budgets of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. dwarf their athletic budgets. We're talking billions with a 'b' dollars. To the Big 10 Presidents, that is what matters to them, it's what pays their salaries. They are not going to open those resources to another member school unless that school brings something of value to the them. </p><p></p><p>This is why - let's take Oklahoma as an example - Oklahoma, a perfectly fine undergraduate school with a storied football program, is a bad fit for the Big 10. Its athletics budget is about the same as its research budget. </p><p></p><p>Texas is nice for its athletics program, but what gets the Big 10 really salivating about the Longhorns is their massive amount of research resources. </p><p></p><p>So, if you take what the Big 10 is really looking for in expansion partners, you're talking about - 1. Plays 1A football, 2. Isn't in a market already covered by the BTN, and 3. Has gobs of money in its research endowment. If we assume Texas is out, the number 1 and 1a targets of the Big10 should be Virginia and North Carolina. Those schools are Big 10 schools that just don't know it yet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="champaignchris, post: 1212931, member: 26283"] When Big 10 elites talk about "academic fit" or "academic profile" they are not talking about US News undergraduate rankings. As long as those are respectable, they don't matter. What they are taking about is research endowment. Particularly how many hundreds of millions of dollars are in them. The Big Ten wants universities that bring resources to the table in terms of bringing more grants to current Big 10 schools. You may be top-whatever in undergraduate whatever major, but do you have a hyper-super-duper radio wave accelerator micro-electron scope that our research profs can borrow? The research budgets of Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, etc. dwarf their athletic budgets. We're talking billions with a 'b' dollars. To the Big 10 Presidents, that is what matters to them, it's what pays their salaries. They are not going to open those resources to another member school unless that school brings something of value to the them. This is why - let's take Oklahoma as an example - Oklahoma, a perfectly fine undergraduate school with a storied football program, is a bad fit for the Big 10. Its athletics budget is about the same as its research budget. Texas is nice for its athletics program, but what gets the Big 10 really salivating about the Longhorns is their massive amount of research resources. So, if you take what the Big 10 is really looking for in expansion partners, you're talking about - 1. Plays 1A football, 2. Isn't in a market already covered by the BTN, and 3. Has gobs of money in its research endowment. If we assume Texas is out, the number 1 and 1a targets of the Big10 should be Virginia and North Carolina. Those schools are Big 10 schools that just don't know it yet. [/QUOTE]
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