Reality is a bit different. Being a chancellor means balancing academics and athletics, especially at a school like Syracuse where we don't have the same amount of resources for athletics from private donors. Kent was more supportive of athletics than people think, but it's an area where if you're a sports fan, you always want more.
Just seeing this because of the news today. Yeah, my kid is a freshman in Athens. I wouldn’t chalk it up to the marketing (instagram) angle of it. It’s essentially free with Hope and Zell scholarships for residents AND higher ranked academically…and surrounding state schools try to combat that with very aggressive offers to out of state high quality kids. The value prop of Syracuse is just massively diminished, sadly. I have another kid who will be looking in a couple years and Georgia Tech and uga are top unless there’s scholarships in play from TOP privates like Duke or vandy. It’s a different world (I was at Cuse mid 90s).
Yes the new chancellor is going to help a lot. The guy is a different type of thinker and innovator so I’m excited for him…
The NESCAC schools are still doing exceptionally well. Not sure it’s all the north east issue. I’m sure Cornell has a healthy application base
Heather Lyke? You don't have to answer, but my guess based on what you posted.
I don't think you are stating how bad that move would be. It is way past the worst move they could make. That is how bad it is. And if that is the chancellor's move, I would take a pass on what you just said about him.
They are discussing next AD pre new chancellor
I could be totally off base, but for NY residents, Binghamton (my alma mater for undergrad) has always been a solid school, and their image/rankings seem to be improving as well. Even called a “Public Ivy” about a year and half ago by Forbes.
Do they have an idea on who the new chancellor will be? Also, thanks for the info. Hopefully wildhack stays.
Jeez. I wonder who it could be. From what you and bulldog are saying it sounds like they’re considering boeheim or weitsman lol
This. You can’t say “what a great chancellor person would be for athletics” and then say his first hire as AD would be a “disaster.”
Oh, I would take JB a million times over the person we are talking about. Weitsman, probably him as well.
Is hitler still alive?
He passed.
Do you have any idea when the new chancellor be announced?
I could find out. But with the push back I got from my Weitsman experience, I'll wait like everyone else.
Academics haven’t fallen the way you think they have. They aren’t gaming towards ranking.
It’s purely coincidental, but it’s hard to overcome that our most underwhelming decade of College Basketball despite a few Cinderella runs as a double digit seed in a long time happened under his watch then you see he is a Georgetown grad.
Ya know I hadn’t even thought about that. He was one of few willing to advocate publicly though apparently has a lot more support privately. Him being in the big ten now would be a good thing. They just need get rid of their Commissioner now.
This, the rankings are more useless than ever, they work to measure a very specific set of criteria that is a target for some schools, but not all of them.
Well this person is already being discussed and new chancellor isn’t in yet. So the timing will be interesting. The new chancellor does care a lot for athletics. And may be thinking this could be a good hire possibly ? But it would be catastrophic and dasher is 100 pct right about how bad it truly would be
