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Seeing UConn and others in a tournament other than the Big East makes me sad.

Posted by Krusty (aka krustylu) Mar 11 '16, 15:10

And today I learned the Big East is letting Liberty University in next season. Now I'm officially done with the conference.
I also heard about a for profit school that's in the Pac 10. *smh*

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stanford? they've been part of it for almost 100 years (well, what it was then anyway). maybe you're thinking of the grand canyon school that was in - b. Mar 11, 15:24 11
- correcting myself: stanford is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. they just have oodles of money and do things to keep it growing and growing and growing. - b. Mar 11, 15:31 9
  - GCU is publically traded -- (link) - JD Mar 11, 15:36 4
    - So who comes first, the students or the stock holders? Such a shady business. -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 15:39 3
      - Actually, isn't it the legal responsibility as a publically traded company that they have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize shareholder value? -- nm - JD Mar 11, 15:43 1
        
        This is why I question them as educational institutions. -- nm - Krusty Mar 11, 15:55
      - er, though, I think that at some schools, you could replace the school for stockholders and be left with the same question - JD Mar 11, 15:41
  - Right. There were no for-profit schools until them and I'm not really happy they're being allowed in. - Krusty Mar 11, 15:35 3
    - I forgot I knew that about stanford, heh/eep. (it also took me 4 tries to turn-off cap lock to type this.) -- nm - b. Mar 11, 15:39 2
      - Heh. :-) - Krusty Mar 11, 15:57 1
        
        ;* thanks! I hope a good one is ahead for you, too! -- nm - b. Mar 11, 16:00
- That's the school. I had the conference wrong in my head when I posted. Either way, they're for-profit which - Krusty Mar 11, 15:26
PAC-12 and which for profit school? -- nm - JD Mar 11, 15:19
Pzc 12? Which school? -- nm - jnine Mar 11, 15:18 5
- Right, Pac 12. The school is called GCU, Grand Canyon University, and they're in the WAC not the Pac 12. I was wrong about the conference. -- (edited) - Krusty Mar 11, 15:22 4
  - darn delay while I went to see when stanford joined. ;p -- nm - b. Mar 11, 15:24
  - I heard an interview with Dan and wow did he turn that program around in a huge way. -- nm - Bacon Mar 11, 15:24 2
    - He's done very well but was there a program before he got there? - Krusty Mar 11, 15:28 1
      - There was but it was horrible. -- nm - Bacon Mar 11, 16:27

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Seeing UConn and others in a tournament other than the Big East makes me sad.

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