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Originally Posted by warpaint*
I care a lot about college hoops. When MU loses it ruins my day. Which is an improvement, it used to ruin the entire weekend but I have grown, a little anyway.
However if you are asking me if I'd prefer hoops or football success in an either/or scenario it's football every day of the week and twice on Sunday. That said, life doesn't work that way. Having one doesn't preclude the other. The fact that very few schools are good at both just speaks to how difficult it is to win when everybody is trying very hard to do so and allocation of resources.
That said it seems to me that if you are not at a basketball school most college sports fans also feel that way but I have nothing to back that up other then that's the impression I get when talking to random fans.
I think where people take some of this too far is to conclude that basketball isn't important b/c football has driven realignment decisions. That would be an error and an illogical one at that. Look at the $'s involved. There's plenty of green proof in black and white that a boatload of people care. A lot. It's just a matter of what has driven things recently when push came to shove on said realignment. I also suspect that is driven by (just my own musing) the fact that this is revenue the schools have direct control over vs the hoops tourney so they are seeking to maximize that and they know quite rightly that it will have little if any impact on the hoops side in terms of the cash cow of college basketball which is the tournament.
College football is about the regular season, as I alluded hoops is about March. March Madness is a phenomenon in and of itself that kind of like the Super Bowl has crossed over and is a part of American culture outside of the context of the sports world. Think of all of the people that fill out brackets in your office that don't know **** from Shinola about it yet get into the thing.
To conclude that the sport isn't massive and important in it's own right is asinine.
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It cracks me up when people use the term "basketball school". There is no such thing as basketball schools. There are only schools with terrible football programs. If a school has even a decent football team, they are a football school. If a team has a terrible football team and even a decent basketball team, they are a basketball school. Johns Hopkins is a lacrosse school because it's all they've got, but I think they'd prefer to have a football team like Bama.
Basketball schools:
Duke
Kentucky
North Carolina
UCONN
Kansas
Wake Forest
Football schools:
Ohio State
Michigan
Florida
Michigan State
Wisconsin