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To elaborate, may I ask whomever may be interested to look at the attached? It shows the recruiting behavior of the top corporate firm in America. And, lo and behold, it recruits only from the top 14 law schools (knuckles, above, mentioned the T14 -- that's the reference). It visits the top...

PMW - I was not the one who asked me where I went to school. Nor did I ask anyone to ask me. I understand normal human drive to understand evasiveness, so I revealed a little -- so all of you could have a basis for grasping why I'm apprehensive. I have no idea: perhaps you've also published...

I don't think prestige is necessarily the most important thing. In fact, I think you've summed things up about right. Prestige is not our mission, and therefore we are not prestigious. Mainly, this doesn't matter, but depending on a student's ambitions, it can absolutely matter.

I think you're probably right. I think there's a disconnect between whether UMN is a prestigious place to be a professor versus whether it's a a prestigious place to be a student. From a student's perspective, the problem is that it does not field a top-ten law school or business school or...

I have no idea who that is. So, no. ...I would be surprised if any of you also know of my other identity, but I guess there's always a chance. (I will say this, though: as a result of the various series, I have had a phone call result that connected me with someone many of you would...

To be a little less opaque: elsewhere, I publish various series on topics that are somewhat controversial. The readership is small but regular -- about 10-20k regular readers. I don't know how this identity could be connected to that identity, but I'd rather not take unnecessary "risks."...

Love all your posts, PMW. But occasionally there are just odd circumstances. You can go with that or not. But I'm a fan of yours no matter what.

It's definitely one of the two.

Yep. I do. But there are some things that make this make sense. And I'd rather not say. (Although if you want to meet up for a drink....!)

Well, it's a high-end private boutique tech school. So that only leaves so many options. I'd prefer not to be more specific because of other things I've said in the past that could lead (who knows why?) people to me. That said, I'm sure you could work it out with not that many guesses.

Without getting into it, a high-end boutique school that focuses on tech. But that's not the point. The point is the squandering of the opportunity for intelligent MN kids.

A boutique sort of high-end school. Not UMN, although I love the school and root for UMN without rest!

I'll take your view as genuine. But you really don't know what you're talking about. I'll take the top 20 AMLAW law firms and find the number of UMN grads that get summer internships/jobs and UMich grads. It's about 50:1 in favor of UMich. Maybe more tilted. But the shitty party is that it...

Not really. Try using that pedigree to go to the top Wall Street firms or the top management consulting firms (MBB), and so on. The reality is, Carlson is not Ross, for example. Not even close. Carlson is good, but far from great. And the kids who go to Ross would never go to Carlson. And...

Agree. But, this goes to my point: the mandate for the U of MN has never been to be top-notch. So it's not. if you have a kid that wants to break into the top echelons, you send him/her elsewhere. (Not saying it's impossible from UMN, but saying it's swimming upstream.). That's what I did...

If there are 50 state flagships, and you are ranked #23.... You're just above mediocre. I don't agree that "we suck." It's just that we're not Michigan or Berkeley or UCLA or UVA or UNC or Texas. We could be. But we don't have the institutional mandate of being elite. Which is a pity.

Before you eliminate the 4-year eligibility limits, you secretly encourage the athletes to establish a players union. Then you negotiate salary caps with the union, so you're within the antitrust laws. THEN you eliminate the eligibility caps. I agree with 100% of what you've said.

Well... I think Minnesota is not what it could be. As a whole, it is a just-above-mediocre flagship public school that is situated in a somewhat high end metropolis. But we've not turned into the sort of top-notch place we could be. We're not Berkeley or Michigan or UCLA or UVA or Texas or...

I would prefer UF and Georgia Tech. State schools, very top end. And UF produces a good football team more often than it doesn't. They'd delivery TV sets in Florida/Atlanta. Makes a ton of sense.

Now that I'm 51 and have a pair of kids in their twenties, all of these guys seem like kids to me, and I just want to take them home and feed them. LOL. Life has changed.