(04-17-2017 02:19 PM)jrj84105 Wrote:  UT is huge, but it's still not Cal or Stanford, and in that respect it can't just bring along whomever it chooses. Every time I see TCU mentioned in a PAC18, it reminds me how little people appreciate the relative standing of research institutions. TCU's research is more non-existent than UCSD's athletics. The amount of investment it takes to go from nothing to something in athletics (take Boise State) is far less than the amount of investment required to move up in the research world.

DavidSt has said Boise St is on their way to the AAU! Multiple times.
(Boise is R3, and one of the lowest rated research universities in FBS.)