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Post by C86 on Mar 24, 2024 12:37:35 GMT -5
Publicly threatening to sue a newspaper pretty much guarantees that they will publish the story
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Post by C86 on Feb 28, 2024 6:45:32 GMT -5
Buffalo is in the MAC, and it would seem to be a very logical opponent for UMass,
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Post by C86 on Feb 26, 2024 22:04:43 GMT -5
I can understand why UMass would no longer want to be independent in Football. And is playing CMU any more incongruous than UMass currently playing Loyola, Dayton, or St Louis?
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Post by C86 on Feb 25, 2024 12:46:21 GMT -5
Russky, this is a serious question: why do the Universities use a shared financial need calculation? Why doesn’t each school independently comes up with its own calculation of financial need. If they did that, there is no antitrust issue (because there is no agreement between ostensible competitors).
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Post by C86 on Jan 17, 2024 22:59:44 GMT -5
My wife was a pediatric resident in the early 90s. When a case of measles showed up in the Emergency room, the attending brought the residents down to see it, telling them it would be the last case of measles they would ever see.
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Post by C86 on Dec 24, 2023 12:26:02 GMT -5
The cases will stay in state court. ACC is an unincorporated association, so it takes the citizenship of its members. Since FSU and Miami are Florida citizens, the ACC is a Florida citizen. QED: no diversity jurisdiction.
And I agree this is ending in a breakup. Each side’s lawsuit is really about maximizing or minimizing the cost
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Post by C86 on Dec 21, 2023 16:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by C86 on Dec 6, 2023 23:07:26 GMT -5
I believe this goes beyond NIL to include direct compensation from the schools to the athletes
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Post by C86 on Dec 6, 2023 19:41:29 GMT -5
One sticking point that I can see is Title IX. All of these new benefits provided to football players are going to have to be replicated to some degree with female athletes. The cost of doing business for the colleges is going to go up dramatically, and for a school like Boston College or Wake Forest, is it really worth it?. And breaking football away from the NCAA I doesn’t solve the problem, since Title IX is the law.
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Post by C86 on Nov 15, 2023 17:05:25 GMT -5
Well, in HC’s defense, at that time there were no Healy Gates. . .
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Post by C86 on Sept 22, 2023 23:50:19 GMT -5
It’s almost quaint that 6 years ago we were outraged that Adidas paid recruits at Arizona and Louisville.
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Post by C86 on Aug 7, 2023 13:52:52 GMT -5
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Post by C86 on Aug 4, 2023 16:32:44 GMT -5
Yes, to the media the end of the Big East was just progress. The breakup of the PAC 12 is the Guns of August.
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Post by C86 on Jun 4, 2023 9:11:37 GMT -5
I think DFW has got it right. Universities can be elite in what they do or in who they let in. The AAU has members who are in the former category, but not the latter. (E.g, Ohio State). It also has members that are in both categories (the Ivies, Duke, Chicago). Many of the schools that straddle both categories are GU’s perceived peers.
Since this thread also addresses public transportation, s bit of clarification. Tufts’ T stop opened in December 2022, a while after it was admitted to the AAU. Before that time the closest T stop was Davis Square, which seems to be about as far as Roslyn is to Georgetown (this is from walking both routes) . The commuter rail is at Porter Square, which is even farther than Davis Square. Driving to Tufts is still a nightmare
As for Case, they do have a Rapid station at University Circle, but in my experience the Healthline bus that you mention is not a huge factor. I’ve been stuck in traffic on Euclid and MLK Drive enough times to know that transportation issues still exist
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Post by C86 on Jun 3, 2023 10:19:01 GMT -5
I’ll stand by “ultimate academic club.” IThe AAU is an invitation-only group that serves as an institutional status symbol. Schools want to be admitted, and schools are aggrieved when they are dropped, GW is touting its new membership in an exclusive club gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-joins-prestigious-association-american-universities. And Georgetown no doubt would have used similarly self-congratulatory language if it had received an invitation. Two other points. As a resident of Big Ten country, I’m going to quibble with any argument that large state schools like Ohio State, Texas A&M, and Iowa are not elite. I’ll grant you that these schools are not as selective as Georgetown, Wake Forest, or Amherst. But that’s not their mission. Ohio State has 66,000 students.; It can never be Williams But in terms of resources, grant money, and productivity, those schools are elite. And not just in the sciences. Iowa has thefamous Writers’ Workshop, and A& M has a world class rare book collection I agree that Georgetown’s historic under-investment in the sciences probably played a role in this decision. Although I don’t think campus space is necessarily a factor. There are AAU members that have urban campuses similar in size to Georgetown (Tufts and Case are two that come to mind). And NYU and GW are just as landlocked
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Post by C86 on Jun 2, 2023 14:56:02 GMT -5
I wonder the extent to which this is tied to the size of the endowment, the perception that GU is not really a research university (particularly in the sciences), or the idiosyncratic way that Georgetown governs itself (promoting from within, having a president of 20 years standing). Except for the Ivy League the AAU is the ultimate academic club, and I question how much these factors, alone or combined, prevent GU from being viewed as clubable.
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Post by C86 on Jan 4, 2023 16:55:45 GMT -5
The longer this goes on the focus shifts from Ewing’s coaching skills to DiGioia’s leadership.
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Post by C86 on Jan 4, 2023 15:10:15 GMT -5
DFW raises an issue that still puzzles me. DiGioia had previously fired Esherick and JTIII. He had to have known that there was a real risk that he would also have to fire Ewing someday. If firing Ewing would create so many difficulties with fundraising and alumni relations, why would DiGioia take the gamble of hiring Ewing in the first place? He was betting an awful lot that Ewing would be successful
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Post by C86 on Dec 16, 2022 11:32:34 GMT -5
“No one has been working harder to turn this thing around than him. And if it can be done, I think he can do it. “
This is the Georgetown’s problem in a nutshell. A President who never worked anywhere else, says that a basketball coach who never would be hired anywhere else is just the guy to turn the program around, “if it can be done.” It’s like there is no world outside of Georgetown and solutions can only come from inside. And if those solutions fail, well, they tried and “it can’t be done.”
I do think it’s telling however that DiGioia spent so much time talking about the NCAA. I wonder if his time as chair has made him hesitant to make changes to the program in light of all the uncertainty about where college athletics is headed, and whether it offers a future to GU
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