(07-01-2017 12:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(07-01-2017 09:59 AM)Kittonhead Wrote:  We discuss realignment options for schools that we didn't attend all of the time.

But what about realignment options for your school? I will start with mine.

1)B12: Our academic peer list includes Oklahoma St, Iowa St and WVU so this would be the conference to join with its rural college towns. We make a perfect travel partner with WVU only 2 hours away.

For Ohio, this is laughable, at about the same level as the "Buffalo to the Big 10!" talk around here in recent years.

The day the Big 12 invites Ohio is the day it is no longer the Big 12 in any recognizable current form, e.g., Texas and Oklahoma will be long gone, the Big 12 will no longer be in the Power club, will have an AAC-level media deal, etc.

And not that it matters, but when you say Iowa State, WVU, and OKST are on your academic peer list, is it reciprocal? It doesn't mean much if it isn't. E.g., I once saw a list of schools that said Harvard was their peer - it was about 20 schools that had them on their list. Problem was, Harvard only had two of them on its list, LOL.

The peer group is about about finding instutions with the same profile on a national level for the purposes of benchmarking salary compensation and resource allocation.

Iowa St, OSU and WVU are not Cal, Texas and Florida schools that are part of the research elite paying 250,000 per faculty member. We arent part of the research elite ect but we want to pay our faculty reasonably for a national public school.

The B12 is attractive for Ohio in a way its not attractive for Cincinnati who would be a better instutitional fit in the ACC. National schools but not big hitters if Texas leaves ect.

Now as to Ohio joining if the B12 has an AAC media deal no. Ohio is refusing now to join the AAC unless the media deal is greatly enhanced. Why would we join a shell of the B12 then either?

You have to understand that some schools are more conservative with making moves than others. UMKC was willing to move to the WAC for nothing more than a perception upgrade. Ohio is conservative about making moves. They dont want to get stuck in the situation Marshall did becoming marooned in CUSA.


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