re: Most Academically Improved SEC Schools

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You can be a great school and not be in the AAU but if you are in the AAU it is damn hard to not be a great school, especially since they started kicking some strong members to the curb in recent years like Nebraska and Syracuse.


AAU membership is hard to get and doesn't necessarily reflect a school's past 20 years of prestige, IMO. Carnegie research classifications are a better general indicator of which insitutions are good vs great research institutions.

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AAU isn't perfect but it has done a lot to bolster its reputation recently by kicking out some old members and accepting some long overdue members. It was ridiculous that Georgia Tech only became a member a few years ago for instance. It does operate like a Frat though that has traditionally not given Southern schools their proper credit.