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Originally Posted by Saul Good
It was pretty well known that they were not long for that world even then.
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That's not exactly true. They have a huge technicality that hurts them. A big chunck of their Ag research and all of their MedSchool research is excluded from their AAU numbers. And despite that, Nebraska is right on the fringe of AAU qualification even today. It's absurd to argue Nebraska as an example that academics don't matter. It's just an opinion rooted in sport talk radio and a general ignorance (which I also had until recently) about the critical role that research plays in universities.
I mean, even at UNL the research budget is 2x the athletic department budget. And the athletic department is but 10% of the total budget.
It's just absurd to suggest that academics aren't a factor.
It's not the #1 factor, it's a #1a or #2 factor.