(02-22-2013 09:54 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(02-21-2013 09:16 AM)Riptsa Wrote:  Cincinnati needs to remain patient and continue to build up it's academics and athetlic department because they would currently rank with the bottom of the ACC in those categories.

Actually our research would rank 5th in the ACC, trailing only Duke, Pitt, UNC, and Georgia Tech:
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/nsf12330/tables/tab15.xls

And our athletic department as a whole would fit in quite nicely, actually. If you added the $15 million difference between the ACC contract and the BE contract to our athletic budget, we'd be comfortably in the middle-third of spending. But we don't have to have that spend as much to have the same quality because most of our football recruiting is local, and most of our secondary sports are able to play OOC games within a short bus trip. Most of the ACC schools (and most other schools in the country, for that matter) have airplane trips blowing up their budgets.

Don't worry. Cincy will be a great addition to the SEC. Ya'll just need to get better at baseball. Ya'll do have a baseball team?