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<blockquote data-quote="Second and Chalmers" data-source="post: 1230713" data-attributes="member: 527609"><p>Conferences are a bit skittish about a glorified (and former) Juco like Boise State, because that would be uncouth for their little ivory tower tea and cakes parties, but in terms of real land grant state universities, it truly is all just posturing.</p><p></p><p>Academics are important in conference expansion in the way that they are important in recruiting. People do truly "care", it's a thing to say and it will always be cited as a post-hoc factor, but when the rubber meets the road of the decision process, academic distinctions are malleable in a way that on-the-field realities simply are not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Second and Chalmers, post: 1230713, member: 527609"] Conferences are a bit skittish about a glorified (and former) Juco like Boise State, because that would be uncouth for their little ivory tower tea and cakes parties, but in terms of real land grant state universities, it truly is all just posturing. Academics are important in conference expansion in the way that they are important in recruiting. People do truly "care", it's a thing to say and it will always be cited as a post-hoc factor, but when the rubber meets the road of the decision process, academic distinctions are malleable in a way that on-the-field realities simply are not. [/QUOTE]
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