What do we want to see happen with this PAC12 deal?

[DentonStang]

1 hour ago, Mike Jackson said:

 

I don't know where that thought is coming from except from the visit the Pac 12 commissioner made to SMU months ago.   When you really look at it beyond just "high level academics" they aren't a fit.  Stanford is the only private university left in the current Pac 12.  Stanford by is more prestigious internationally than either any of these private schools.  Stanford is bigger than any of these schools and more consistent in sports than any of them.    SMU only has the Bush Jr family.  Not minimizing having a former president as an alumni at all but the pool of prominent alumni is just deeper at Stanford.  And if we were crafting a Mount Rushmore of presidents post Teddy Roosevelt, Bush Jr probably isn't on it.  Also if I am in the Pac meetings I am cautioning adding any private school smaller than Stanford.   

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You are analyzing expansion candidates based on the prestige of their associated presidents?  This is a Message Board Genius level take.

Side note, Stanford's closest president is Herbert Hoover, and while I personally think he is profoundly underrated, he's not a post-TR Rushmore candidate either, and he was a single termer.

[DentonStang]

Further, I'm not going to put our alumni up against Stanford by any means but if I'm going to create a top alumni list for SMU, Laura Bush isn't going to be very high on it.  Weird, weird take to cite the Bush family as our biggest alumni.

[Victorygreen04]

17 minutes ago, DentonStang said:

Further, I'm not going to put our alumni up against Stanford by any means but if I'm going to create a top alumni list for SMU, Laura Bush isn't going to be very high on it.  Weird, weird take to cite the Bush family as our biggest alumni.

Not sure she graduated but how about kourtney kardashian lol!!!