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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5629213, member: 173"]
Binghamton is extremely well regarded academically.  It also has an interesting relationship with athletics generally.  One of the things a certain type of professor liked a couple decades ago was how marginal athletics was.  That set the culture at BU.  There was a lot of angst when they moved up to D1 that things were changing.  That angst was converted into action after the 2009 scandal - which led to the school de-emphasizing athletics to a substantial degree.  The marching orders for coaches and the AD now is “don’t embarrass us, and do well academically so we can sell that”.  Winning is an afterthought (although nobody will say that publicly).

I say all of this to note that when AW was talking about taking his money to Binghamton, I was really, really confident that wasn’t going anywhere.  Either he wouldn’t donate anything substantial (and he seems to be all smoke no fire so I thought this was most likely) OR he’d make a big deal about it when he did donate which would freak out the faculty and lead to massive pushback.

I don’t think there was a worse school for AW to “threaten” Syracuse he would support instead.  I don’t know if he didn’t know that, or did but it didn’t matter since he wasn’t going to actually donate big money anyway - but it was laughable from the beginning.
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