MEGA Conference Realignment and lawsuits Megathread: Stories, Tales, Lies, and Exaggerations

[Felonious Monk]

If none of you are not seeing a direct correlation between these grant funds being cut and AAU status, a invite to the B1G, I don't know what to tell you. This puts us below AAU invite #'s. We will be well below FSU's research money #'s last year that hasn't gotten them a invite yet. Again, this is probably going to completely crush and end the AAU, all together, but until I know that, this is our key besides viewership to a invite. Former B1G commissioner Warren wanted to go up the West coast (completed) for teams and then down the East coast. The Bears hired him before he completed that mission. Now the viewership King commissioner Petitti took over. AAU membership and TV ratings, besides wanting in FL so bad are key. Unless they announce this administration has destroyed the AAU completely, I am overly concerned about our AAU status and a B1G invite.

Step back from the ledge. We take less in federal grants than a lot of the other schools and only a few schools have left the AAU. Nebraska was given the boot because of a lack of quality research, but if ever school is going through the same issues we are, we won't be singled out.

Remember that it's not just the dollar amount that gets membership, if it was, then Brandeis would have been gone long ago. FSU has no medical school and their research might not align with what the AAU expects. Besides, everyone recognizes that FSU sucks donkey balls.