Louisville president: "SEC academic standards are too low".

I have never heard anything good (or bad) about Louisville. Is the Big East full of brain trusts?

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Translation: Athletically....We can't compete.

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Or..."We didn't and will not get an SEC invite."

Louisville:

A&M, UF, UGA and Vandy disagree

No doubt. LSU has come a long way the last 10 years if Jindal doesn't frick it up. But that's a topic for another forum. Don't want to threadjack

Do you have a link? Given the relative stature of Louisville academics I just can't see how he could say something like that with a straight face.

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Take it fwiw. There is no way they have people go and seriously study every one of these schools and then gives sound rankings on them. Hell for ECU it just said something about 6.0% of girls are in a sorority and 7.0% of guys are in a fraternity. Thats it. Says nothing of their academics.

If I can find an old link Clemson shamelessly trys to skew these rankings to appear higher on the list.

Clemson's skewing technique

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Last week’s controversy over a Clemson University official’s admission that the land-grant institution had “walked the fine line between illegal, unethical, and really interesting” in efforts to rise in the U.S. News & World Report rankings reminded us of a special report we published two years ago.

In remarks at a meeting of the Association for Institutional Research, the Clemson official, Catherine E. Watt, said that the university’s single-minded pursuit of a higher ranking had led it to manipulate class sizes, to double its tuition so it would lower student-faculty ratios, and to rank all other colleges but Clemson as “below average” in U.S. News surveys of academic reputation.

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Though this is getting off topic there was a Clemson fan the other day on an SC board mentioning how SC had stayed true to its mission. To be a school designed to help kids in this state get a good education. Clemson has gone away from that and has gone for more academic appeal rather than helping the kids of our state.

With that said SC has been accepting more out of state kids than usual but still small compared to in-state kids. I think we've doing that to get out of state tuition considering we're becoming more and more of a public school with less public funding.