(01-18-2023 01:12 PM)Skyhawk Wrote:  

(01-18-2023 12:36 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2023 02:25 AM)Skyhawk Wrote:  

(01-17-2023 11:00 PM)bryanw1995 Wrote:  

(01-17-2023 10:33 PM)EdwordL Wrote:  Don't know why you think KU will be dropped from the AAU. They have been there since 1909, and the University of Kansas Health System is an NCI-designated cancer treatment center, recently awarded comprehensive cancer center status, a point of some distinction; those aren't given to community colleges. Is it you or is it all Utes fans? Btw, congratulations on your relatively recent admission to the AAU. Being with the PAC institutions no doubt helped accelerate UU's advancement where it counted.

I doubt it. Look at what the B1G did to Nebraska. They cast the final votes to expel them.

The supposed story is that B12 schools voted against them, due to them leaving, but I dunno how much of that is true.

100% false. All the Big 12 schools voted to keep Nebraska in. The former Texas president was giving the NU president advice on how to sell themselves.

It was Wisconsin and Michigan who were the deciding votes to kick them out.

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/6933...the-big-12

It seems the writers of articles like the above, which were apparently casting aspersions, did not read the article below...

https://journalstar.com/news/local/educa...5acb4.html

This article pretty clearly supports what you said.

Quote:Perlman said in an April 29 email to faculty that all Big 12 schools that are AAU members -- Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri, Texas and Texas A&M -- supported Nebraska. Colorado was a Big 12 member when the letter was written.

Other emails obtained by the Journal Star suggest Syracuse University President Nancy Cantor might have supported Nebraska. Syracuse was identified along with Nebraska for membership review, but the private school in New York opted to bow out voluntarily rather than go to a vote like Nebraska. UNL and Syracuse both were voting AAU members at the April meeting.

While the AAU vote results were not made public, the emails and statements made by several officials suggest that UNL had nine Big Ten supporters and six Big 12 supporters. Nebraska voted for itself, bringing the total to 16 supporting UNL's continued membership in the AAU.

If Syracuse voted to retain Nebraska, that would make 17 supportive votes.

While it's impossible to be certain how each president cast his or her school's secret ballot, 18 AAU leaders voted to continue Nebraska's membership.

Pretty crazy that almost every member of both the big 12 and B1G voted to keep them in, while everyone but 1 outside of those 2 conferences voted to remove them. I suspect that it had something to do with their own fears of being on the chopping block eventually over Ag funding, perhaps it's reflective of a rift in the mighty AAU.