(09-05-2016 02:16 PM)shere khan Wrote: Thanks pesik. If we could only be like houston. Maybe we should just cancel our game this year with houston in memphis and wait a few years until we can be competitive.
you completely missed the point of that...
it has nothing to do with individual season competitiveness but building a foundation/brand
any team that enters a p5 will have some sort of early struggles... how will they draw talent to bounce back?
simply being a p5 doesn't mean top level p5 recruiting classes ask kansas and purdue
memphis itself isnt a bad recruiting ground but you arent winning major titles off memphis alone in a p5. how are you gonna draw top level talent?
its about creating a sustainable brand, when tcu struggled early in the big 12 they still recruited great because of the 10 years of success to fall back on and the tradition they had built.
no offense but just 3 years ago memphis's football brand was worse than kansas in football
my whole point was that, memphis is recruting great for the AAC level and have positioned themselves for success in the AAC (if the recruits sign)..memphis could use the next few years to build a strong football brand similar to cincy, wvu and Louisville did in the weakened big east...become a power in the AAC, build that foundation and that foundation will carry you over in the whatever P5 when the time comes..instead of going into the big 12 and most likely just becoming Kansas or wake in football
here the tcu article i was talking about from 2005
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/082105/...83FOJgrK00
Quote:Former TCU athletic director Eric Hyman ... "Ultimately though, if you look at the program now, he was right on target. If TCU had stayed, I don't think TCU would ever have had the success we had."
