(05-15-2017 08:21 AM)MechaKnight Wrote:  What about Emory? $6 billion endowment, was one of the potential "Magnolia League" members alongside Duke, Wake, Vandy, Tulane, Rice, and SMU.

They're D3 by choice and could probably make themselves D1 quickly

Their whole athletic conference (the University Athletic Association) could do it. But most of them dropped down from D1 in the 50s:

UAA:
$6.9 billion - Washington University in St. Louis (a founding member of the Big 8)
6.7 billion - Emory (no football, never in D1)
6.7 billion - University of Chicago (a founding member of the Big Ten)
3.5 billion - New York University (no football; won the 1945 D1 NCAA championship in men's basketball)
2.1 billion - Rochester (never in D1)
1.8 billion - Case Western Reserve (formerly D1 Case Institute of Technology and D1 Western Reserve University, a founding member of the MAC who has a 6-5-1 record all-time against Ohio State)
1.7 billion - Carnegie Mellon (formerly a major Eastern Indie)
861 million - Brandeis (no football, never in D1)

Emory in particular is quite proud of never having had a football team. They wear that as a badge of honor; a way to stand out as pro-academic in the South.