 The rumor from up there for a while now has been that it relates to academics, that NC State has ambition to be in the Association of American Universities, and that they would like to be an AAU school, and that maybe this is something that they perceive will help them get there. Maybe it's an explicit quid pro quo. Maybe it's just as simple as having more high-end academic universities you interact with, with Cal and with Stanford, that maybe they'll get it done. Don't know.