What? When you have a commuter school like USF now be in AAU just because it has a medical school certainly doesn't suggest Ivy League like cult status.Yeah but unfortunately, in terms of athletics and realignment, we are going to hear AAU all the time. It is taking on a cult of like an Ivy school.
So ISU should now add a medical school just because AAU changed their membership criteria?I actually feel in a way this makes AAU membership more important. If the bar for entry is lower, it makes it look really bad if you aren't in.
It is like the evolving criteria for making a bowl game. In the 70s and 80s you could miss a bowl and still make a good case that you had a good team. Today, if you can't make the cut you are bad, period. The bar is lower, and thus failure to clear that low bar is a bad look.
AAU status has become increasingly diluted and less prestigious especially with their new adds like USF.