Again, that was a fiction the presidents liked to trot out, but suddenly when the Big Ten needed Nebraska, AAU membership didn’t matter. As 19go points out, when the ACC needs UL, academics didn’t matter.
The conferences are all about money and football. Anything else is lip service. Even TV markets don’t really matter like they did in the era of Rutgers expansion with the fall of terrestrial cable.
I suppose there’s always an exception to the rule. And who knows, maybe academics really don’t matter anymore, but it does seem like the B10 and ACC care about such things. And that does put us in a better situation than many G6 schools. Not that we are as strong in the rankings as we were 20 years ago, but we are still highly respectable with a sizeable endowment.
Edit: Nebraska was an AAU school when they were admitted to the B10, Hoosier. They left several years later. But again, maybe you’re right, and academics don’t matter anymore. We’ll see what happens if the PCSA fails, and there’s another big realignment in a few years. I suspect you’ll be proven right.
Man, where were you that day? I could’ve used your input. No on the oompa loompa, but I did nail him with a Willow reference.
The students are behind the visitors bench today as well
Miami ranks up there with the majority of B1G Schools, excluding:
Northwestern
Wisconsin
Michigan
USC
UCLA
Maryland
UIUC
On par with
Purdue (excluding engineering)
Indiana
Penn State
Rutgers
Ohio State
Washington
Ahead of
Michigan State
Iowa
Nebraska
Oregon
Minnesota
I’m pretty sure the only B1G member that Miami outranks in US News is Nebraska. For most of them it isn’t particularly close.
hey, it’s 
THIS guy again!
I think we outrank most big ten schools if you use the LinkedIn ranking
Don’t place a ton of emphasis on rankings. Bottom-line, if one graduates from Miami with a competitive degree, there’s the likelihood that grad will financially benefit from that degree.
This is not anyone’s point.
Academic reputation.
It’s from The Athletic, which is owned by the Times.
On the front of the USA of Today’s today there was a bogus article ranking prettiest campuses in America. No Miami on the list but some very dumpy campuses listed.
It’s likely a pay to play scenario with this stuff. I don’t trust any of it. All dubious
2027 Top Public Universities. (National)
We rank pretty well.
Michigan 3
Ohio State 14
Miami 65
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public
You can add BC as well to your list. Hard to match Duke and GT though.
Our endowment puts us in the top 6 of the American. Rice $7B, Tulane $2B, Tulsa $1.3B, UTSA $1.2B, UAB $1B, USF $977M; the others far below (Grok doesn’t list Army or Navy). Assuming we are now ~$1B after our latest campaign. We certainly fit from this perspective.
We between 1.2 & 1.3 billion
Yes, we are over 1B and the schools higher in the AAC are private, and private institutions almost always have higher endowment.
This is great for Miami!
Service academies are federal, but have managed alumni funds that work like an endowment. They still recruit donations to these funds and my wife and I have donated for several years to USAFA.
Love the Academies and love Miami!
Louisville has both a Law School and a Medical School. We don’t have either one and likely never will. Those are two rigorous academic pursuits for which graduates must earn certification through independent testing. That’s something very academic.
Eh. You’d be surprised what kind of schmoes they let through law school.
This guy on X is a radio host deep in ACC country.
He sees this as a possible ACC lineup when the dust settles post conference realignment.
Miami, Toledo, OU and WMU all in ACC.
