(05-23-2020 09:43 PM)Itinerant Texan Wrote: Get back at me when CBU builds that $50-million football stadium and fields a D1 football team. BY FAR the most expensive ontaking in all of NCAA sports. Keeping and maintaining football kills programs, and only the (financially) strong survive. They can't, and they won't. Why? Because they went all-in on Basketball. So yes, they should and do have a ton more money to throw at basketball, and it should equate to more wins. But it won't look like anything special after Tarleton has 3 years in the WAC and does more with less. Not picking a fight with anybody, but facts is facts. Tarleton>CBU was about who was the better D2 program, and without question, it was Tarleton. You should know that Bobcat.
You haven't proven anything. Just saying it does not make it true.
1. CBU spent five years at the D2 level. They won the NCAA Division II Learfield Directors' Cup in 2018 after back-to-back top-four finishes the previous two years. The best finish ever for Tarleton State was 23rd in 2015. You are factually wrong, CBU had a better D2 athletic program than Tarleton.
2. In case you have not noticed, the WAC is an Olympic sports league. So football is irrelevant. What Tarleton spends on football has no relevance to the WAC. In 2018-2019, Tarleton had an athletic budget of $8.9 million, with $1.9 million spent on football. Those numbers need to go up significantly. CBU had an athletic budget of $22.5 million in 2018-2019 and that needs to go up.
3. In California, there are a combined 47 D1 & D2 schools. Only 12 play football. In Texas, there are a combined 36 D1 & D2 schools. In Texas, 27 of those schools play football. It is just not as important in California as it is in Texas. If CBU played at the D2 level, they would only have one other California school to play. It would be a waste of money to build a football program at CBU.
4. Besides basketball, Tarleton needs to catch up to CBU and the WAC in baseball. In 2019, Tarleton State went 15-36 in baseball. The Lone Star Conference had one player selected in the MLB draft in 2019. Tarleton has not had a player drafted in the MLB draft since 2011. There were 18 players selected in the MLB draft in 2019 from the WAC. CBU, the WAC co-champions in baseball, have had 21 players drafted in the last decade, with 11 of those players drafted in CBU's time at the D2 level. Just the basic facts.
I can confidently say that CBU>Tarleton State. But I could say that GCU>Tarleton State or UVU>Tarleton State or Seattle>Tarleton State or UTRGV>Tarleton State and obviously, NMSU>Tarleton State. You guys have to prove it and it is not easy. The WAC is competitive.