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bocabull said:
When I lived in Highland Park I thought it was ridiculous they wasted that money on the football stadium. Had they expended the same resources on basketball they had a chance to build something. But now the game is over and they got left out while TCU is in.
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Football is the reason TCU moved into the Big XII.
 
Remember, these are basketball players, and they're TEXAS basketball players to boot. Many, and I mean a great many, of them have told me to my face that they don't want to play at a football first school. They’ve played their entire lives in the shadow of football, and given a preference, they’d prefer to play at a non-football first program.

Well, all things being equal, that rules out almost the ENTIRE Big 12, especially Texas and Texas Tech. The same can be said for TCU. In the past, if a kid wanted to play high-major ball and stay even relatively close to home, it was the Big12 or the SEC. Closest schools in those two conferences that fit that bill are in Lawrence and Lexington.

So, now all the sudden, two Big East opportunities have popped up in Texas. The Big East carries a lot of weight with these kids looking for basketball first mindsets. I’ll reiterate one more time, I know for a FACT that these kids are open-minded toward the potential at SMU, regardless of the current state of the program or the recent past.

It will take the right coach to sway them and bring them into the fold (which is what I’ve said all along), but at least they’re watching and paying attention now, which is something that CANNOT be said in year’s past.
 
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The "new" Big East is a hodgepodge collection of CUSA/WAC programs who were not admitted to a major conference. Every program who was able to flea the Big East did. Kids are smart enough to know the Big East basketball juggernaut is no more.

Can you imagine how horrible the travel will be for SMU & Houston? It's not going to work.
 
SoonerDAZE said:
Remember, these are basketball players, and they're TEXAS basketball players to boot. Many, and I mean a great many, of them have told me to my face that they don't want to play at a football first school. They’ve played their entire lives in the shadow of football, and given a preference, they’d prefer to play at a non-football first program.

Well, all things being equal, that rules out almost the ENTIRE Big 12, especially Texas and Texas Tech. The same can be said for TCU. In the past, if a kid wanted to play high-major ball and stay even relatively close to home, it was the Big12 or the SEC. Closest schools in those two conferences that fit that bill are in Lawrence and Lexington.

So, now all the sudden, two Big East opportunities have popped up in Texas. The Big East carries a lot of weight with these kids looking for basketball first mindsets. I’ll reiterate one more time, I know for a FACT that these kids are open-minded toward the potential at SMU, regardless of the current state of the program or the recent past.

It will take the right coach to sway them and bring them into the fold (which is what I’ve said all along), but at least they’re watching and paying attention now, which is something that CANNOT be said in year’s past.
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Interesting comments. Always appreciate your insight
 
Daze,

Ask SMU if it wants to be a football school or a basketball school.
 
BigTime said:
Daze,

Ask SMU if it wants to be a football school or a basketball school.
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That's a great question.

I'd assume they're no different than any other NCAA program where money's important, and finding ways to finance all their sports is one of their top priorities each year.

Football, being the largest potential athletic money-maker for any school, makes being a "football school" much more attractive than being a "basketball school" given a choice to become an elite program in one or the other.

So, I'd have to say football, BigTime.
 
If Brown gets Jankovich, Howard, and Strickland on staff, which is rumored, that is going to be one outstanding coaching staff. Howard is considered to be one of the best recruiters in the nation. Strickland is solid as well and coming off of Calipari's staff. Jankovich is a heck of HC in his own right.

As far as Texas players saying they don't want to play for a football school, well that may be true, but UT is football first, second, and third and they continue to get elite talent.
 
bocabull said:
The "new" Big East is a hodgepodge collection of CUSA/WAC programs who were not admitted to a major conference. Every program who was able to flea the Big East did. Kids are smart enough to know the Big East basketball juggernaut is no more.

Can you imagine how horrible the travel will be for SMU & Houston? It's not going to work.
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I think this is true for football but it is still a good basketball conference. About the only schools for basketball with no previous success are Rutgers and USF. There are some big names in the Big East. Unless I missed a bunch of departures, I think it is still a good basektball conference.
 
Calipari and World Wide Wes are helping Brown put his staff together. Daze is correct, SMU will be very good very fast.
 
Blake Griffin's Mom's Hairdo said:
Calipari and World Wide Wes are helping Brown put his staff together. Daze is correct, SMU will be very good very fast.
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Very fast? I doubt that. Fast turnarounds at schools like that (small, weak conference, consistent losing program) are hard to turn around over night. Brown isn't going to recruit a Blake Griffin to there overnight, and even if he did, the rest of the roster is in pretty bad shape, I'd imagine. Takes time to "turn over a roster", unless you literally just kick everybody off the team. He can't do that this late in the process this year, and even if he did it next year, that'd mean he was bringing in a completely new roster, and that takes time to gel. I don't see them doing anything at all for 2-3 years, and it'll likely be 5 years before they got anywhere near "very good".
 
Theyll be very good in two years. NCAA tournament team, it doesn't take that many players. They'll out recruit OU with that's staffs AAU Connections.
 
Laugh all you want, I'll bet you $1000 they are a NCAA tournament team in two years.
 
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