Oso planning to go pro
Bluebloodness? Really? I used to help a friend of mine from the engineering school with his English papers. Who wrote yours?
Bigfoot just walked through my parking lot.
And where, exactly, have these super-rich alum been the past three decades?Did they just recently decide they care about winning?Or did they recently learn that they're super rich?
Have fun reading this exercise in futility.http://ponyfans.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60597
That is the plan. If we get Williams, it is NOT JUST ABOUT BASKETBALL. For almost 20 years, SMU has been investing in improving the academics, the facilities, and student life on campus. All the old buildings were renovated and new buildings were built. We started with FB. We overpaid to hire a coach who had coached his team to the Sugar Bowl. 5 years later, we managed to get out from under our CUSA/MWC fate. Next up is our BB program. If we get Williams, it will cost a fortune but it is part of the overall plan for the school. In 10 years, SMU wants to be more like Vandy, Wake Forrest, Northwestern and BC, To do that, we need to offer BCS level programs in FB and BB.
I have to admit, I never expected the statement, We want to be more like Northwestern, to ever be posted on a basketball message board.
My guess is a little of all three. It's not known as a bball school. Trying to reclimb the football ladder (not that June Jones or whoever is the coach there is one to do it) and stop the 'death penalty' stigma.Personally, I think this whole thing is stupid for a multitude of reasons.
You saw the Samsquanch?????????????????http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j5e8NUrkys
Because MU is not a football school, it is hard for your alums to understand that SMU cannot allow itself to fall out of the BCS level again. While we are excited about joining the Big East and are looking forward to joining with our new partners (who are a great bunch of schools), we all understand that it might not work long term. If the Big East breaks up, SMU wants to be able to offer other conferences three things: 1) the Dallas/FW TV market, 2) a viable FB program, and 3) a viable basketball . Without the last two, we cannot offer the first. If we cannot offer the first, it is off to CUSA/MWC/WAC again and we didn't like that very much.
English was never my strong point. I wrote my own. I probably should have put "bluebloodness" in quotes as it is a made up word. The point remains, matching money doesn't matter. MU is not IU. MU is not UK. MU is not KU. MU is not UCLA. MU is not Duke. MU is not UNC. For Kevin O'Neill MU was not Tennessee. For Rick Majerus, MU was not the asst coaching job for the Milwaukee Bucks.For Buzz Williams, MU > UNO but maybe not > SMU. If Buzz leaves, it is on Buzz and no one else. He has a great thing going on at Marquette. MU took a lot of $hit giving Buzz the head coaching position. MU stuck their necks out for this guy. He has quit one job already. Is he going to quit another in less than five years?
BBall is irrelevant to redistricting. Kansas has no bargaining power in redistricting so basketball is meaningless for that scene.
I was referring to the post about SMU trying to be like Northwestern and Vanderbilt.
SMU20 who are you? Even your own message board doesn't necessarily like you.
OK. MU sucks, but Buzz Williams should kiss the feet of the MU administrators for hiring him. The AD, President and BOT are wonderful and any disagreements are all Buzz's fault. And Buzz is a quitter. But you're a big fan of his. Right.
Bet SMU14-25 are a lot like Bubbles. If I got a pet, I'd call it Steve French.
See what you started.
While Kansas would probably have landed in a BCS level conference somewhere, Iowa State, K-State and Tech were terrified that OSU/OU/UT were going to bolt for the Pac 12 or SEC. If that had happend, all three could have been up ship creek. With horrible TV markets, the other conferences were not lining up to add them to their TV package.Frankly, we understand that we were lucky to get into the BE for football. In return for our FB program, we promised to step up our BB program and we plan to keep our promise.
Frankly, we understand that we were lucky to get into the BE for football. In return for our FB program, we promised to step up our BB program and we plan to keep our promise.