re: A Kentucky Sports Radio reporter writes about his trip to Mizzou for the game.

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There are many college rankings but AAU membership and research funding is the true measure of a university.

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Spoken like a B1G or austin alter

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A degree from the rest of the SEC schools is viewed by everyone else as a Grade 13 diploma. Just an extension of high school.

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While the SEC does have a short bus school or two in the west, the schools in the east can hold their own in a Top 100 type ranking. Under current metrics Missouri is probably around a LSU or Tennessee cluster that might also include South Carolina. Kentucky has been raising their research game in the past decade and the campus has been expanding greatly if you ever drive though it. Georgia is already AAU level, but not officially AAU and well ahead of Missouri at this time.