“Peer institutions”. That’s today’s topic....and we’re detailing who they are....and why.
A few years ago, Rutgers was mired in the Big East (on many levels) and the basketball/football rift in the conference was beginning to fester. The AAC wasn’t even something people thought of, because the great conference migration wasn’t happening yet.
I was in Piscataway at Rutgers and happened to be talking to a professor (who shall remain anonymous to protect him) and he was a supporter of athletics. Really!
We were talking about football, but he was speaking on a larger scale. To paraphrase his comment, “We don’t belong in the Big East.