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Too simplistic. There's funding for the facilities and equipment that makes obtaining research funding a near shoe-in and allows curve fitting grant appropriations to the Institutes as a high=percentage pass through. Michigan States cyclotron was one such example. Albany's nano-tech investment is a more current one.
But that has nothing to do with the AAU. For instance, Albany got $14 billion in government and private grants for Nanotech. $14 billion!!!!!!!!!! Are they AAU? No. Yes, I know, there is lobbyist pork available in the form of research grants. Many schools take advantage of it. Some like Cincy and USF in our own conference.
And yet these schools are not in the AAU. Why? Because their grants are pipelined through the lobbying process. Not peer-reviewed. Heck, if these were ever considered, a school like PSU which is basically a wing of the Department of Defense would have a totally different stature.