hawghiggs
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RE: Cincinnati
(02-22-2013 09:54 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (02-21-2013 09:16 AM)Riptsa Wrote: Cincinnati needs to remain patient and continue to build up it's academics and athetlic department because they would currently rank with the bottom of the ACC in those categories.
Actually our research would rank 5th in the ACC, trailing only Duke, Pitt, UNC, and Georgia Tech:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf12330/tables/tab15.xls
And our athletic department as a whole would fit in quite nicely, actually. If you added the $15 million difference between the ACC contract and the BE contract to our athletic budget, we'd be comfortably in the middle-third of spending. But we don't have to have that spend as much to have the same quality because most of our football recruiting is local, and most of our secondary sports are able to play OOC games within a short bus trip. Most of the ACC schools (and most other schools in the country, for that matter) have airplane trips blowing up their budgets.
Don't worry. Cincy will be a great addition to the SEC. Ya'll just need to get better at baseball. Ya'll do have a baseball team?
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RE: Cincinnati
Quote:Don't worry. Cincy will be a great addition to the SEC. Ya'll just need to get better at baseball. Ya'll do have a baseball team?
Good facilities, but needs better funding and support. They have been decent (usually a few drafted each year), but would have trouble against SEC talent. UC did have a good recruiting class this year despite having down years in local talent.
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CliftonAve
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RE: Cincinnati
^^ Yep.
Most famous baseball alum: Sandy Koufax.
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Captain Bearcat
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RE: Cincinnati
(02-24-2013 10:41 AM)hawghiggs Wrote: (02-22-2013 09:54 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote: (02-21-2013 09:16 AM)Riptsa Wrote: Cincinnati needs to remain patient and continue to build up it's academics and athetlic department because they would currently rank with the bottom of the ACC in those categories.
Actually our research would rank 5th in the ACC, trailing only Duke, Pitt, UNC, and Georgia Tech:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf12330/tables/tab15.xls
And our athletic department as a whole would fit in quite nicely, actually. If you added the $15 million difference between the ACC contract and the BE contract to our athletic budget, we'd be comfortably in the middle-third of spending. But we don't have to have that spend as much to have the same quality because most of our football recruiting is local, and most of our secondary sports are able to play OOC games within a short bus trip. Most of the ACC schools (and most other schools in the country, for that matter) have airplane trips blowing up their budgets.
Don't worry. Cincy will be a great addition to the SEC. Ya'll just need to get better at baseball. Ya'll do have a baseball team?
Most UC fans don't have the SEC on the radar. IMO we should, even if it's a long shot. It's a lot better cultural fit than the Texas 10 (which, outside of UT, OU, and KU is filled with institutions with dissimilar missions from UC).
UC has good baseball for a Northern school. We had 3 draft picks last year, and 17 since 2005. Most famous alum still playing is Kevin Youkilis, and we have two Hall-of-Famers. We've got a great new field, too, funded by Marge Schott (an SEC type of person if there ever was one, the positives and the negatives).
So we're not bad at baseball, but we'd get slaughtered in the SEC.
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RE: Cincinnati
Cincy naturally fits in 2 current Power leagues: the B1G and ACC
The B1G seems pretty adamant about not adding new teams within its existing footprint and the BTN gives them no incentive to violate that.
The ACC is more concerned with survival than expansion right now, but UConn and Cincy are almost certainly the prime candidates for any needed back filling after a raid
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RE: Cincinnati
I've only read the first page of the this thread... but I have to ask: "Can you blame them?"
More power to them. I would like for them to stay but if anyone entity can better it's situation, they should try to do so.
To the fans that hate "us" for leaving: y'all would do the same in a New York minute. Don't kid yourselves. I figured this out last time around, when ECU left CUSA.
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