Rocky Style Posted June 4, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 109 Content Count: 21,137 Reputation: 4,642 Days Won: 39 Joined: 09/14/2007 Share Posted June 4, 2023 1 hour ago, smazza said: you poor saps and i say that lovingly we arent going anywhere It's a good thing you are not in charge though. The leadership has to sell the dream and change the narrative. Whether it happens or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DontPushMe Posted June 4, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 40 Content Count: 1,241 Reputation: 187 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/05/2003 Share Posted June 4, 2023 Massive props to everyone involved for pulling this off. Finally something for this school and it's alumni to be proud of. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bull Matrix Posted June 4, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 604 Content Count: 16,501 Reputation: 2,951 Days Won: 43 Joined: 01/04/2003 Share Posted June 4, 2023 14 minutes ago, DontPushMe said: Massive props to everyone involved for pulling this off. Finally something for this school and it's alumni to be proud of. Hell yeah!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple B Posted June 4, 2023 Group: Moderator Topic Count: 1,615 Content Count: 74,733 Reputation: 10,959 Days Won: 425 Joined: 11/25/2005 Share Posted June 4, 2023 11 hours ago, FazaUSF said: Um, who are you? As both a USF grad and a Miami grad, I can tell you, Miami's academics do not blow USF away... A UCF fan .... pay him no mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky the Bull Posted June 4, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,036 Content Count: 7,523 Reputation: 1,130 Days Won: 10 Joined: 12/25/2001 Share Posted June 4, 2023 6 hours ago, smazza said: can i now go to my partners and demand more money? As long as the school gets a cut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post FazaUSF Posted June 5, 2023 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 94 Content Count: 2,305 Reputation: 670 Days Won: 11 Joined: 09/15/2005 Popular Post Share Posted June 5, 2023 13 hours ago, Cubanbull said: Getting into AAU, is a great accomplishment for USF and it will help increase research money and ability to recruit quality faculty and students. The effects on athletics or alumni will be minimal. So as an alumni, I celebrate the accomplishment. I respectfully disagree. This is the "big boy's table" of academia. Yes, we have more goals to accomplish, such as breaking the top 25 rankings of public universities (which, frankly, the criteria used for which are pretty objectionable and highly debatable as legitimate/appropriate criteria). Of course I agree that it will be a boon for research and recruiting faculty and students. The effects on alumni includes the worth of their degree and their competitiveness for achievement (including publishing, jobs, and graduate programs admissions). Already, I have seen it in my circles. Particularly among the medical and research side. Suddenly, some seem to recognize that an education at USF matters - and is respected. It is not just the neighborhood 4-year commuter school... it is SOMETHING to have a degree from USF. It may not be everywhere or in even the majority of academic circles. But trust me, some industries actually give quite a darn about AAU membership as a factor in assessing the education someone received. I also do not debate whether that should be the case. The effect on Athletics may be subtle, and quite unlikely to be immediately realized. But.... when you have conferences like the SEC who only keep Vandy for its academic creds (and automatic wins), conferences like the Big Ten who only invite AAU members (such as Rutgers, the perennial athletic doormat, and the disgraced Nebraska), and conferences like the ACC who care somewhat about academics may need to backfill when the SEC and B10 come calling for their other schools - it makes a small but not insignificant difference. That we are on academic parity with the top research institutions in the country is quite meaningful. Athletics did not get me in to a great graduate school nor did it give me a great education (because I was not an athlete at USF), but it is a strong way to continue ties with the university that made me who I am. Academics got me into a great graduate & medical school (MD+MBA) and helped me ultimately make money. I probably should donate to UM since its degrees really empowered me to produce financially... but USF made me who I am (after my parents) and got me there. Athletics will keep me coming back over time and maintains that connection to the university when I have limited ongoing academic needs. AAU membership makes my degree worth more, and I am proud to have been a very small part of it (first graduate with the Honors College Research Major, for example, and published in multiple fields). I can see how some may wave this off, but honestly, I must declare that it is HUGE. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St.PeteSlim89 Posted June 5, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 2 Content Count: 227 Reputation: 140 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/29/2013 Share Posted June 5, 2023 14 hours ago, SilverBull said: It's all a matter of perspective. Must be one of them Space U academics. Too funny! Given its (supposed) emphasis on science and engineering, it would have been reasonable to expect that Space U would have obtained AAU status earlier than USF. But they have a cheap stadium, a mythical football national championship, and a lazy river, so they are a better school (sarcasm font)…smh… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lewis Posted June 5, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 18 Content Count: 2,921 Reputation: 2,352 Days Won: 33 Joined: 09/25/2013 Share Posted June 5, 2023 Thinking it would be cool to have a shirt that says "The 3%" on it. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Johnson Posted June 5, 2023 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 1,834 Content Count: 5,491 Reputation: 1,808 Days Won: 13 Joined: 12/02/2018 Share Posted June 5, 2023 5 hours ago, John Lewis said: Thinking it would be cool to have a shirt that says "The 3%" on it. Uh... no. Three Percenters - Wikipedia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Lewis Posted June 5, 2023 Group: Member Topic Count: 18 Content Count: 2,921 Reputation: 2,352 Days Won: 33 Joined: 09/25/2013 Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 minute ago, Jim Johnson said: Uh... no. Three Percenters - Wikipedia Oh well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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