I feel like a Kansas/Kentucky/Duke fan
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:51 pmlooking forward to basketball season
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:51 pmRe: I feel like a Kansas/kentucky/Duke fan
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:52 pmDon't forget North Carolina
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:55 pmYou could probably put UConn and Syracuse on the list.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:59 pmAnd Memphis. Should be a rockin game in a couple of weeks.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:18 pm33 more days
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:24 pmI understand your sentiment.....but we've got a ways to go in basketball before we can really relate to a kansas, kentucky, or duke.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:32 pmThe way the NCAA is set up today. SMU will be a basketball powerhouse QUICKER than they will ever become a football powerhouse.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:34 pmEspecially with a coach that cares and recruits.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:38 pmI hope this is a short term feel because I hate basketball... Really wish we had baseball truly I do.. #TCUEnvy
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 6:57 pmLHS81 wrote:The way the NCAA is set up today. SMU will be a basketball powerhouse QUICKER than they will ever become a football powerhouse.
Quicker than never isn't saying much.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 7:52 pmSMU2007 wrote:LHS81 wrote:The way the NCAA is set up today. SMU will be a basketball powerhouse QUICKER than they will ever become a football powerhouse.
Quicker than never isn't saying much.
Good feeling about Larry Brown getting SMU to a "higher level," than the June s%#t show
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:05 pmI agree things look promising.
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 8:23 pmLHS81 wrote:The way the NCAA is set up today. SMU will be a basketball powerhouse QUICKER than they will ever become a football powerhouse.
What do you mean the way the NCAA is set up?
Re: I feel like a Kansas/Kentucky/Duke fan
Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 9:54 pmWell, enjoy it while it lasts, as there is one teenie weenie difference between Duke, Wake, Kansas, Kentucky, Vandy, Rutgers, Syracuse and us.
THEY will be cashing $50M+ pay checks each year while we will be collecting $5M.
Going forward, that is going to make it extremely difficult to compete.
THEY will be cashing $50M+ pay checks each year while we will be collecting $5M.
Going forward, that is going to make it extremely difficult to compete.
Re: I feel like a Kansas/Kentucky/Duke fan
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:03 amSoCal_Pony wrote:Well, enjoy it while it lasts, as there is one teenie weenie difference between Duke, Wake, Kansas, Kentucky, Vandy, Rutgers, Syracuse and us.
THEY will be cashing $50M+ pay checks each year while we will be collecting $5M.
Going forward, that is going to make it extremely difficult to compete.
Agreed. I trade places with Duke, Kansas, or Kentucky - millions of $$$ in conference TV revenue plus a portfolio of Final Four appearances and national championships in basketball.
What is even more depressing is that Baylor and TCU, long considered our peer institutions as private schools in Texas, will be cashing these big checks for the next 15-20 years as well. Where will SMU be if they are able to leverage their athletic success and exposure into stronger academics?
We need football, but it is essential that we win the academics/basketball arms race over the next 15-20 years.