(10-10-2021 10:51 AM)Tigersmoke4 Wrote:  

(10-10-2021 08:50 AM)Huan Wrote:  

(10-10-2021 12:46 AM)Erictelevision Wrote:  Huan: acAdemics mean (almost) NOTHING! It’s a fig leaf to convince people who should know erred what TRULY matters. ($$$)

By reports 6 teams had unanimous votes for consideration of invitation. All 6 could have been invited in a staggered manner so that the limit of 14 teams not exceeded by 2025. Only 4 were invited. The two that weren’t both had worse academics. While academics may not be a driver for selection, it might have been a factor for non selection.

You seriously need to relax. You are exclaiming "bad academics " so much that you are starting to sound like the rain man. You just soi happen to keep ignoring the fact that people have told you several times that Memphis is about to move up to R1 designation and no offense to Boise you keep mentioning "Memphis and Boise " as though we are so type of academic siamese twins which couldn't be further from the truth. The truth is that. University of Memphis's goal was never to strive towards exclusionary goals of admittance. The UM has however become the home of many and I mean many first generation college grads including myself, my brother and my wife and now our children are all first generation holders of master degrees. I'll take that anyday over your obvious fake elitism about academics and the "Next to schools"in line for big12 acceptance.

Lol I am relaxed! Never said bad academics in describing Memphis or Boise. In fact I have never posted anything degrading Memphis or Boise! I grouped Memphis and Boise together because of the 6 evaluated programs with “unanimous” votes neither Boise nor Memphis were invited. They have that in common; both also share worse academics compared to the selected 4. “Worse” is comparative and isn’t the same as bad. I am fully aware that Memphis may get R1 soon but soon isn’t now and is not definite. Would getting R1 help Memphis? I think so: with or without b12 invite Memphis will be better as an academic institution (the primary mission of universities). If not academics then why Memphis didn’t get an invite?

I am a Texas tech graduate. Why would I be an academic elitist? Lol. We serve the under served region of West Texas and has done a great job in this regard. We are R1 but not a national academic institution. But I am under no illusion we are not candidates for other p5 conferences because our academics aren’t good enough! We have worse academics than UT or any other AAU programs. Had we been AAU Tech would have had more options!

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