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Originally Posted by Saul Good
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
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IDK I guess it depends on how you define it. I live here (KC) of course and travel for a living and have interacted with plenty of Kansas but also Duke, Syracuse, UCONN, and Indiana fans and most of them don't care too much about football. I'm talking about the fans, not the schools. Sure if you talk to any AD they'd love to have a great championship(s) winning football program. Who wouldn't. The AD's aren't what makes a school what it is, it's the fans as a byproduct of success over a very long period of time (decades). And obviously no fan is going to say no to the question of winning vs losing at really anything, I'm just talking about importance in terms of priority. Heck compared to Duke and Indiana Kansas fans are rabid football fans comparatively speaking. In the northeast frankly college football isn't very popular at all compared to college hoops or college football across most of the rest of the country.