Which are absolutely crap academic profiles ... next to a Vermont. Or a URI. The interesting thing is the budgets and largesse throughout small farm town State schools in the Southeast. Sure there's growth. But we all know that UVM - Vermont - is one of the most desirable publics in the northeastern US.
They have sports programs though ?
Maybe i think that academics doesn't move the media needle....
But Heck...make Division I..... the UNWR top ranked 60 National Universities.
What a mix...Schools like Princeton, Harvard, MIT, Dartmouth, NYU, Brown, Cornell, Emory, William and Mary, Georgetown, BU, Lehigh, Northeastern, Rennslauer Polytech, Rice, Pepperdine, Villanova, Santa Clara, Rockchester, Case Western etc...
alongside... Cal, Michigan, Georgia, Florida, FSU, Notre Dame, USC, Virginia, UNC, Duke, Wake, BC, GT, Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio State, Purdue, Miami, Syracuse, Maryland, Pitt, Washington. Rice, Tulane
Notables not in the academic Top 60 Division I....Penn State, Rutgers, UConn, Indiiana, Alabama, Texas A&M, SMU, Minnesota, Baylor, Clemson, VT, BYU, Gonzaga, NC State, Michigan State, Iowa, TCU, Auburn, Colorado, Oregon, Utah, USF, Tennessee, South Carolina....and Vermont (# 117).