<p>Even opinions should be founded in reality. Pitt and Rutgers passing Wisconsin? Not a chance. Illinois falling to 22, hardly likely.</p>
<p>I think Pitt & Rutgers are his favorite Big East teams, otherwise this ranking is just plain silly.</p>
<p>W & M and University of Delaware do not have D1 football, therefore this ranking should have placed both outside the Top 25.</p>
<p>UNC surpassing Berkeley? Er... well, if it's just opinion...</p>
<p>its possible that Uconn could be top 25 in football. They are in a horrible conference. Top 25 you pretty much need to be 8-4 and that is possible in the big east. </p>
<ol>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Mich</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>WM</li>
<li>UF</li>
<li>Wash</li>
<li>GT</li>
<li>Wisc</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>Virginia</li>
<li>W&M</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Florida</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Washington</li>
<li>GA Tech</li>
<li>UCSB</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>Penn State</li>
<li>UConn</li>
<li>Maryland</li>
<li>Georgia</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
<li>Pitt</li>
</ol>
<p>My own opinion. Take it for what it is.</p>
<p>UConn isnt close to UMD right now. 7-10 are pretty interchangeable.</p>
<p>Omni...fair point about UConn's basketball team, the rough thing about UConn is that its out of range of some of the best areas of HS Football. I think UConn is top 40 football next year...thats just me. Btw, I just really hated their mens bball team for a while, but definitely agree that the program got really good within like 5 years.</p>
<p>Dealing with the Big Ten may fall apart:</p>
<p>Sure manufacturing may be going down, but the Ag industry is growing, all because of ethanol. That means ag departments in universities like Iowa State (just an example) will do pretty good.</p>
<p>Since people think that ethanol (only cheaper cause of tax breaks and is less efficient) is great so then they built a plant every 30 mile it seems like around Iowa which drove up grain prices. Which drive up livestock prices. And milk prices (I live on a dairy farm, I hear this conversation at least once a week from farmers, market analist on T.V., etc.) And since grain is up, there will be more demand for seed dealers, agri business, agronomist, researchers, and a bunch of other jobs that start with ag that I can't remember.</p>
<p>BTW, have fun paying $5 a gallon for milk ths winter and I-don't-want-to-imagine how much for pizza and steak. And since people are planting corn instead of other things, don't think that soy will be any better. </p>
<p>Just think: Every expensive gallon of milk you buy, every extra cheese pizza you eat, you get to pay for my college education. that should make up for 1997, that was a bad year.</p>
<p>are people posting what they wish the public rankings will be or what they actually think they will be. cause a lot of these seem to be the first.</p>
<p>Their basketball team is pretty bad right now. They have no rebounding and have one guy coming in from recruiting. Their class of '08 looks to improve the team, but they're a farcry from where they were previously.</p>
<p>loslobos ur right... uconn blew last year, and honestly who wants to live in connecticut... i guess its better than new hampshire or vermont</p>
<p>UConn was pretty much all freshman players last year! In two years, UConn will again be #1 in the country. Its called a rebuilding process. I just hope my Bruins can finally win next year, before UConn has another shot at it.</p>
<p>loslobos: I thought you were all projecting 10 years out. If that is the case, then I feel UConn will be among the elite. I'm from South Carolina, but many of us down here think very highly of UConn. Its just a guess. How do we know which schools are better than others? If anything, we sound like a bunch of a$$holes guessing.</p>
<p>UCLA has a much better team.</p>
<ol>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Mich</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>WM</li>
<li>UF</li>
<li>Wash</li>
<li>GT</li>
<li>Wisc</li>
</ol>
<p>Just interested, what are the things holding Minnesota back anyway?</p>
<p>And what are your opinions on Marylands' future?</p>
<p>Michigan doesn't actually have 5+ billion in their endowment. You have to subtract the amount that investors have put in that fund.</p>
<p>Southpasdena, I am not sure what you mean? Michigan's endowment, as of June 2006, was $5.65 billion. </p>
<p>Southpasadena,
What are you referrring to? Michigan's endowment is well over $5bn and in absolute terms ranks in the top 10. Their problem is that they have 40,000 students (26k undergrad, 14k grad) to cover with it so the per capita numbers ($141k) puts it just outside the top 25 among National Universities. </p>
<p>SSobrick,
Your rankings above seem reasonable, but are you aware that the schools you ranked 1-6 are the same as today's ranking? Is that what you expect 10 years or more from now?</p>
<p>You can expect UConn's reputation to skyrocket:
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLTH08228062007-1.htm%5B/url%5D">http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/CLTH08228062007-1.htm</a></p>
<p>That is tremendous.</p>
<p>Hawkette, remember that state universities receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the state annually. A state university with an endowment of say $2 billion can do as much with it was a private university with an endowment that is significantly larger. A private university needs $6 billion of endowment to duplicate what a state university can do with a $300 million annual contribution from the state.</p>