(06-21-2017 12:13 PM)mturn017 Wrote: (06-21-2017 12:06 PM)KAjunRaider Wrote: (06-21-2017 11:52 AM)mturn017 Wrote: (06-21-2017 11:50 AM)KAjunRaider Wrote: (06-21-2017 11:41 AM)mturn017 Wrote: I think you'd have a hard time defending that. But go ahead. Trouble is it won't be seen by the thousands living in the Huntington, WV area.
Defending MT over ODU ? 'Twould be easy
Defending putting MT at the top. Unless you're going to heavily weight basketball performance over the past two years over everything else.
Just as easy as ODU at the top. How many hoops, football, women's hoops, or baseball titles has ODU won in C-USA ?
Tournament titles ?
Two more payments and we own Old Dominion
Not enough, but we've been near the top in almost all cases. I"m just saying if you were to put basketball performance over the past two years then MT would be the top. If you were to add in other sports, say performance over all major sports since realignment. I'd say probably La Tech, maybe WKU. Now if you want to add in other things like fan support, facilities, budget, etc. then it's not crazy to put ODU at the top. You can't say that we haven't been competitive though we have fallen short of championship seasons so far.
I'm not saying any of that. I think ODU has a very good overall athletics dept. Selig is a good one, even though I cannot stand him.
What I'm saying is that I could configure a "rankings" that would come up with MT on top, if I picked and chose what I wanted.
I could rank "women's hoops attendance" high on the list, where we are Top 25 in the nation.
I could use "travels well to conference tourneys" -- who had more than us at the tourneys other than the host ?
We brought around 300 to El Paso.
I could leave out baseball, where we are having the worst period since we began the program. However, even our baseball team has a winning record over ODU head-to-head in C-USA.
I could use Brent Stockstill's injury last year in football, as a crutch.
But I can also argue about putting a team at the top with no titles in the "big four" sports in 4 seasons.
I do agree with you, in that my "article" would not get the readership that this maroon is putting out there.
If did write an opinion piece (I was actually a sportswriter in my past), I doubt that I would place us at the top. I'd probably put LaTech up there.