With ECU (football and baseball) and Memphis (basketball) gone or almost gone who brings the most history to the conference?
I would say....
Football: Southern Miss
Basketball: UTEP or UAB (tough to decide on just one)
Baseball: Rice
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Don't leave out the Hilltoppers, with 23 NCAA appearances.
Basketball is no contest. UAB hasn't won a national championship or had a movie made about them.
Tech, ODU, & WKU bring women's basketball
Football - Southern Miss, Lousiana Tech
Basketball - UTEP, Charlotte, UAB, WKU
Women's Basketball - ODU, Louisiana Tech
Baseball - Rice, Southern Miss
Track - UTEP
Marshall has a very rich history on football with the Plane Crash to 2 I-AA championships to 12 conference championships.
(01-04-2014 10:50 AM)Surbadger Wrote: [ -> ]Marshall has a very rich history on football with the Plane Crash to 2 I-AA championships to 12 conference championships.
I was trying to stick to one team per sport in my post
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Football
Southern Miss- All time record 561-396-27
Rice- 7 SWC Championships
Marshall- Everyone knows "We Are Marshall"
Basketball
UTEP- 1966 National Title
WKU- perennial Tournament team
UAB- 31 winning season
Baseball
Rice- 2003 National Title and 7 College World Series appearances
Men's Golf
North Texas- 4 National Titles
Football:...Southern Miss, Marshall, La Tech
Basketball....WKU, UTEP, ODU
Charlotte holds the most CUSA hardware (2 CUSA tourney wins, a regular season championship, and 7 dance appearances while in CUSA) in basketball.
(01-04-2014 11:03 AM)MUHERD76 Wrote: [ -> ]Football:...Southern Miss, Marshall, La Tech
Basketball....WKU, UTEP, ODU
ODU? They've been a fine program for a lot of their history, but I don't see how they could be ahead of Charlotte or UAB. UAB has 31 winning seasons, an elite 8, and a couple sweet 16's I believe. Charlotte is pretty equal to ODU in number of NCAA trips, but has a final four so tie breaker goes to us IMO.
Hard to argue with WKU and UTEP as the top two however.
(01-04-2014 11:21 AM)Niner National Wrote: [ -> ] (01-04-2014 11:03 AM)MUHERD76 Wrote: [ -> ]Football:...Southern Miss, Marshall, La Tech
Basketball....WKU, UTEP, ODU
ODU? They've been a fine program for a lot of their history, but I don't see how they could be ahead of Charlotte or UAB. UAB has 31 winning seasons, an elite 8, and a couple sweet 16's I believe. Charlotte is pretty equal to ODU in number of NCAA trips, but has a final four so tie breaker goes to us IMO.
Hard to argue with WKU and UTEP as the top two however.
Good point. I originally was going to pick UAB (maybe Charlotte) but I looked at the number of conference tournament championships and NCAA appearances between the three. I agree that third spot could be UAB, Charlotte or ODU. The more I look at it, it probably should be UAB for that 3rd spot.
In football, it depends how far back you want to go.
If you want to take things back to the 40s and 50s, it should be Rice hands down. We've won several SWC titles, been to several Cotton Bowls, a Sugar Bowl, an Orange Bowl, and others.
Limiting things to the last 40 years or so likely brings a different discussion.
Check out my auto signature below for some highlights of men's bball. The Lady Toppers have 3 Final Four appearances and 6 Sweet Sixteen appearances. Our football team won the D1AA national title in 2002.
(01-04-2014 11:31 AM)Orange County Owl Wrote: [ -> ]In football, it depends how far back you want to go.
If you want to take things back to the 40s and 50s, it should be Rice hands down. We've won several SWC titles, been to several Cotton Bowls, a Sugar Bowl, an Orange Bowl, and others.
Limiting things to the last 40 years or so likely brings a different discussion.
Overall history. I do think UAB is SLIGHTLY better than WKU in the basketball history department.
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(01-04-2014 12:06 PM)PurpleReigns2012 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-04-2014 11:31 AM)Orange County Owl Wrote: [ -> ]In football, it depends how far back you want to go.
If you want to take things back to the 40s and 50s, it should be Rice hands down. We've won several SWC titles, been to several Cotton Bowls, a Sugar Bowl, an Orange Bowl, and others.
Limiting things to the last 40 years or so likely brings a different discussion.
Overall history. I do think UAB is SLIGHTLY better than WKU in the basketball history department.
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I disagree with that. Do a side by side comparison. It's not really close IMO.
In men's basketball, from a history standpoint, the top 3 are definitely WKU, UAB, and UTEP. It gets hairy trying to measure who's #1, 2, 3 though. UTEP has a National Championship, so that negates accomplishments of others to some degree. Also, UAB started basketball from scratch in 1978 and quickly became a national name in basketball. Since then, they've had 14 NCAA tournament appearances....the same number WKU had in the same time frame but WKU wasn't starting from scratch. Just an FYI, UAB's first NCAA tournament game was against WKU in 1981. UAB won that game, btw.
As a total homer here, I'd say all things considered, total wins, winning percentage, number of 20 win seasons, conference championships, NCAA tournament appearances, etc. I'd choose WKU as #1....but like I said, that's a homer pick.
As to women's basketball, LaTech, ODU, and WKU are hands down the top 3...and in that order.
As to football, I'd say USM but I'm not up on all the all-time stats for football. It's hard to measure since so many of our teams have a history of being at the college division, Div II, IAA, FCS at different times.
FWIW, I looked up where our teams rank in winning percentage for football (at all levels).
USM #35 all-time in nation at 58.3%
WKU #36 all-time in nation at 58.2%
MTSU #44 all-time in nation at 57.1%
LaTech #48 all-time in nation at 56.6%
Those four have a history of successful football over the long haul. I'd wager they will all continue winning.
Football- usm
Baseball- rice
Basketball- utep
If we're going solely on history for basketball then it's UTEP. Aren't they the only ones with a national championship?