** Official Mizzou Basketball Repository Thread **

[KcMizzou]

I've been wondering why we Mizzou fans don't have one of these.

[|Zach|]

Originally Posted by Bearcat

The problem with that is simply a numbers game... 35 schools claim 3+ college football championships, while only 7 schools claim 3+ college basketball championships.

Six schools have 10+ Final Four apperances... 33 schools have 3+.

Is it really that hard to figure out why more schools claim a football tradition over basketball?

As far as the short list of teams that claim multiple NCs in both sports, Michigan State is the one that sticks out that could possibly consider itself both.

Of course football is more popular, and the schools love it because filling 70,000 stadiums is somehow more profitable than filling 16,000 seat arenas... but, the NCAA tournament does use football stadiums for 3rd round games and some conference tournaments. Let's not be ridiculous.

That is all fine. But when some get ancy when we talk about how the amount of "basketball schools" can be counted on one hand maybe we can link to your post or something?

[Saul Good]

Kansas City is neither a baseball nor football town because we don't have 3 or more championships in either.

I guess baseball is more popular than football in America because more cities have 3 or more World Series championships than have 3 Superbowl wins.

[Saul Good]

North Chicago isn't a baseball town because the Cubs haven't won a WS in 100 years.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

That is all fine. But when some get ancy when we talk about how the amount of "basketball schools" can be counted on one hand maybe we can link to your post or something?

Personally, I don't think it's an either/or situation. I think there are football schools with football tradition, basketball schools with basketball tradition, and everyone else kind of falls in between those two.

Doesn't mean there isn't tradition there for those in between in either basketball/football, just means the history of the school hasn't been overwhelmingly been dictated by one sport.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Kansas City is neither a baseball nor football town because we don't have 3 or more championships in either.

I guess baseball is more popular than football in America because more cities have 3 or more World Series championships than have Superbowl wins.

I don't think anyone is arguing that BB is more popular than FB. It's very simple - some schools have a rich football tradition (they may [Florida, tOSU, UT] or may not [NU, LSU] be good at basketball). There are more schools that have football tradition as stipulated by Bearcat. Then of course we have schools that don't have any winning traditions at all. We all know who we are.

[Pants]

Hey guys, let's talk about professional sport traditions!

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Colorado is going to be bummed to learn they didn't win that football title. I thought I remembered Syracuse winning a basketball title after some team out west choked a few years back as well, but I don't care enough about basketball to look it up.

I stand corrected. Those two schools have won. I think Pitt has a title back in the day too.

[Saul Good]

Here's how you define "basketball school" or "football school":

Would the majority of your fans rather win a football NC or a basketball NC?

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Kansas City is neither a baseball nor football town because we don't have 3 or more championships in either.

I guess baseball is more popular than football in America because more cities have 3 or more World Series championships than have 3 Superbowl wins.

I've always kinda thought of KC as a CBB town.

Being it has the whole CBB Experience and all.

[Bearcat]

Originally Posted by |Zach|

That is all fine. But when some get ancy when we talk about how the amount of "basketball schools" can be counted on one hand maybe we can link to your post or something?

It would probably save some time... logic does that.

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Kansas City is neither a baseball nor football town because we don't have 3 or more championships in either.

I guess baseball is more popular than football in America because more cities have 3 or more World Series championships than have 3 Superbowl wins.

I award you five clowns.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Here's how you define "basketball school" or "football school":

You don't define schools like that.

[Mr. Plow]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

Here's how you define "basketball school" or "football school":

Would the majority of your fans rather win a football NC or a basketball NC?

Really? That's how you define what type of school you are?

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Saul Good

If Texas and Oklahoma left, the Big XII will immediately become the worst football conference in the BCS. Shortly thereafter, they would become the second or third best football conference outside the BCS.

If Alabama and LSU left....

wow, great game you got goin on here

[Bambi]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

Really? That's how you define what type of school you are?

I think therefore I am!

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Mr. Plow

Really? That's how you define what type of school you are?

Does anyone outside of MU fans on CP define schools by sport?