11-18-2014, 05:05 PM
This can be a very good thing for B5 inclusion down the road. However, I suspect the elite eight / final four days in hoops may be done for awhile.
(11-18-2014 05:05 PM)Tigerbluesky Wrote: [ -> ]This can be a very good thing for B5 inclusion down the road. However, I suspect the elite eight / final four days in hoops may be done for awhile.
(11-18-2014 05:16 PM)EvilLore Wrote: [ -> ](11-18-2014 05:05 PM)Tigerbluesky Wrote: [ -> ]This can be a very good thing for B5 inclusion down the road. However, I suspect the elite eight / final four days in hoops may be done for awhile.
I love both equally, but certainly wouldn't mind football stealing the thunder for the next several years. The potential benefit of fielding a top 25 football team over the next several years could single-handedly change the fortunes for this university forever.
(11-18-2014 05:22 PM)tigergreen Wrote: [ -> ](11-18-2014 05:16 PM)EvilLore Wrote: [ -> ](11-18-2014 05:05 PM)Tigerbluesky Wrote: [ -> ]This can be a very good thing for B5 inclusion down the road. However, I suspect the elite eight / final four days in hoops may be done for awhile.
I love both equally, but certainly wouldn't mind football stealing the thunder for the next several years. The potential benefit of fielding a top 25 football team over the next several years could single-handedly change the fortunes for this university forever.
To me it's not an either/or situation - the money is being poured into both.
The big donors paying for the coaches' salaries are prepared to pay the buyouts they agreed to in order to maintain a certain level of performance. I think this will be the last year for JP if we only get as far as we have the past six years.....or do worse.
We paid off Tommy & Porter for years at a clip while paying Fuente - they certainly won't let basketball slide into complete irrelevance because they don't want to cough it up.
(11-18-2014 05:29 PM)tigernole79 Wrote: [ -> ]If you had a football team with 4 returning starters playing an ole miss team that went to a major bowl game last year, would you expect to play them close?!! So for everyone to talk the doom and gloom about basketball is kind of pathetic in my mind.