FWIW, Texas Tech is ranked 125, not 135.

(10-13-2014 12:35 AM)DexterDevil Wrote:  You think Johns Hopkins was added just because of 1 sport? Not every conference cares about academics but a couple of them sure do.

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Yes, I absolutely know they were. Johns Hopkins was only added as an affiliate member for men's lax only, and only agreed to it for five years thus far. The only reason they were given men's lax affiliation is so the Big Ten could field a lax conference with an automatic bid and give it the additional legitimacy of having a historical program to go along with Maryland. You're 100% delusional to think there was anything else to it. They don't participate in any thing else in the Big Ten...not administrative, not governance, not CIC, nothing.

(10-12-2014 07:23 PM)TrojanCampaign Wrote:  

(10-12-2014 05:10 PM)CrazyPaco Wrote:  

(10-12-2014 05:04 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  This is a great ranking, but there's a few schools who get screwed over.

Quit thinking like a football fan. This is an NSF report...many months old. Schools don't get "screwed" by a generated list from fed data.They's no crystal microscope to hand out at the end of the year.

Alabama and UAB aren't the same school in the eyes of the fed. Hell, they aren't to the NCAA either. Ditto to the rest. If you want to think like that, then add up all of the University of California and then it would blow everyone else away.

Why the fed includes the APL with Hopkins' numbers is a good question. Could be the way the accounting is done to run funding through Hopkins compared to the other labs; who handles indirects and manages compliance, etc. Could just be a legacy of how it has been always reported since Hopkins is so close and interwoven to many fed institutes (like NIH). I don't know. Every institutional recipient has a unique identifier numbers (DUNS, FWA, etc), so it may be compiled using those.

And don't forget to list Old Dominion to the Big 12 since they have affiliate membership in women's rowing, along with Alabama and Tennessee.

Actually, yes they are along with the wonderful University of Alabama Huntsville school of Engineering I graduated from

It's great that you think that. You might want to mention it to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools that accredits UA, UAB, and Huntsville all as separate institutions.