Read where he is heavily involved with B10 partnership on getting FSU positioned to meet the requirements for AAU membership. Upwards of $1B for the Health School and another $500M in acquiring faculty and educational resources to meet the requirements.
Those are the primary reasons FSU targeted him as the School President was to help get the school positioned for those research dollars. Interesting is that the B10 membership School share the dollars they receive for academic research and those dollars are massive, in the hundred of millions annually.
So while some.love the idea of the SEC, FSU BOT covets the win/win of the AAU dollars and Football will be taken care of. He has the relationship with many of the B10 Presidents and at the end of the day those dollars for research purposes and the B10 FB contract is vastly more attractive to FSU. Academic research dollars trumps anything else which is what FSU exist for.
Those are the primary reasons FSU targeted him as the School President was to help get the school positioned for those research dollars. Interesting is that the B10 membership School share the dollars they receive for academic research and those dollars are massive, in the hundred of millions annually.
So while some.love the idea of the SEC, FSU BOT covets the win/win of the AAU dollars and Football will be taken care of. He has the relationship with many of the B10 Presidents and at the end of the day those dollars for research purposes and the B10 FB contract is vastly more attractive to FSU. Academic research dollars trumps anything else which is what FSU exist for.
