AAC News & Notes 📰

UAB has hired an assistant from FAU to be their HC & Memphis has hired Campbell’s HC.

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https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/08/27/ut-system-approves-utsas-plans-to-purchase-18-story-downtown-office-building/

Very disturbing non-athletics story involving fellow AAC member UNT:

Their games better all be at night. This would be worse than our student side in the daytime.

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Rice is #9 per Forbes:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-americas-top-universities-in-2024/

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I was talking to someone who lives in Houston in 2020 about Rice and the coincidence that both UNCC and Rice had to get special permission from their respective states to bury someone on campus. Seems Mr. Rice left money in his will to establish a university for white students. Currently Rice is quite diverse in its racial makeup.
There are no plans to move the remains of Bonnie Cone. :blush:

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I don’t think Miss Bonnie owned slaves. She was a sweetheart and loved her “children”.

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Born 1907 so “no” :laughing:

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My concern is that men’s basketball isn’t a priority for the conference.

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The logo change was actually made in July. Pretty subtle IMO:

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$265M project: