Looking at the basketball programs, I am sorry, but Marquette's is clearly superior.
Clearly? I would argue for Marquette being better, but history and statistics contradicts your pompous reasoning. Marquette is nowhere near on the level you are purporting it to be, nor is it drastically better than OU's. Seriously, who do you think you are rooting for? John Wooden's UCLA teams?
That state-of-the-art practice facility that you are planning to build? We already built it. Marquette has one of the best in the country.
Did you intend to post this in 1999? OU built their practice facility nearly 10 years ago. And yes, its on par with just about any other basketball program's practice facility in the country. Not 100% positive, but I am willing to bet it is just as good--if not better--than Marquette's.
The conference we are in? Typically comparable to or better than the Big 12, but it did not almost disappear last summer.
The Big 12 nearly dissolving has absolutely
nothing to do with its stature compared to the Big East. In fact, at this juncture the Big East is--at best--on the Big 12's level. I would argue the Big 12 is more superior.
And it nearly disappeared because the conference's big boys were contemplating moving to greener pastures (i.e. hypothetical Pac 16) for mainly football/academics. Your conference is strictly a basketball conference, which if you didn't know this already, holds little in the grand scheme of things. Why else do you think the alpha dog of Big 12 basketball (Kansas) was nearly left out in the cold? Why else do you think rumors were swirling that the Big East was only going to pick up the scrub teams that weren't going to get invited to the hypothetical Pac 16? Yes, that's right... If the Big East were as prestigious as you are implying, it would have had the conference's big names listening. Furthermore, the Big 12 is about to sign a new TV deal that will make your reasoning for the Big East being superior in the grand scheme of things seem beyond foolish. Not that your reasoning isn't beyond foolish already...
History? If you go back to about the 60's, roughly comparable. Marquette made the last six NCAA's. OU missed the last two.
LOL, yes, because overall program history should only be judged by the last two seasons. If you knew what you were actually talking about, you would clearly see that OU stacks up with Marquette (and in some decades has been superior)
beyond the 60's. Try the 80's, 90's, and 2000's, maybe?
For big games against conference rivals, Marquette will double the largest crowd OU will draw in a year.
So Marquette consistently draws 24,000+ for their "big games against conference rivals"? I find that extremely hard to believe.
Good luck in your search. You are likely to hire somebody pretty good, but the expectations of your fans are a bit out of line.
And your expectations aren't out of line? You are no better than the clueless OU fans that think they can swoop in and steal any basketball coach in the country.
Seriously, you're post couldn't have been more of an epic fail if you tried. Reach higher for us next time.
