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basketball school vs. football

AnonymousDeac said:
Well yeah, that's because we have a small fan base.
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What's the smallest school that has had a top tier football program?

SMU and Miami are all that come to mind, but they were cheating their asses off in a different era in much different locales. Notoriously crooked programs aside, Notre Dame only has 8000 undergrads, but has the Catholic church behind them.
 
Acadmeics plus the size of the school, dooms us to not being a football school. we can get lucky once in a while but not consistently.
 
IAppreciateIt said:
Any of those schools would instantly become football schools with any sustained success. Football is just an infinitely more popular sport. UNC football was crazy popular in the mid-90s, as was Kansas football during their good years.
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Of course St. John's would have to get over the small hurdle of actually having a football team to become a football school.
 
TBR said:
What's the smallest school that has had a top tier football program?

SMU and Miami are all that come to mind, but they were cheating their asses off in a different era in much different locales. Notoriously crooked programs aside, Notre Dame only has 8000 undergrads, but has the Catholic church behind them.
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Princeton has won the most college football championships lol
 
bobknightfan said:
Which one is the most fun to go to? That should be an easy question for everyone. It is for me, anyway. (And that's whether we are winning or whether we are losing.....my answer would be the same. I would rather go to football games even if we were mediocre or losing, than to basketball games if we were ranked in the top 10.)
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College football games are events. Once a week, only 12 a year. Basketball games are good ways to pass a cold winter evening.
 
ACC Championship in Football in 2006 and the only major bowl game of any big four program in over 50 years.

In process of Becoming a Football School.
 
Good points all around. I fully recognize our history and tradition as a basketball program, but no reason we can't strive for excellence in football as well. Yes our ceiling might be a bit lower overall, but we have the ability to put out a consistently winning football program. I think sometimes people just discount that and are comfortable with not being embarrassed as we were in previous coaching regimes. We need to eliminate this remnant of Caldwell-era expectations. We have a great coach, great players/recruits, and if you don't know, you better ask somebody.

GO FOOTBALL DEACS
 
SkinsNDeacs said:
No it did not...UNC-ch has never been a football school...never.

UNC-ch
Kansas
Kentucky
Duke
U Conn
St Johns
Wake
Indiana

All basketball schools that I can think of just off the top of my head.
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UCLA. Arizona. Um...Illinois? Iffy on that one. Maryland.
 
bojanglefunk said:
That was half a decade ago.
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Funk off...take a look at the entire decade -- bowl games,record against big 4.

Basketball has become a load of un-disciplined shit played by un-disciplined shits.

Interest in b-ball will continue to erode.

Football School
 
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Obviously you have never heard of “Choo-Choo” Justice. ;-) (can’t find dead horse smilie)

SkinsNDeacs said:
No it did not...UNC-ch has never been a football school...never.

UNC-ch
Kansas
Kentucky
Duke
U Conn
St Johns
Wake
Indiana

All basketball schools that I can think of just off the top of my head.
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Lectro said:
Funk off...take a look at the entire decade -- bowl games,record against big 4.

Basketball has become a load of un-disciplined shit played by un-disciplined shits.

Interest in b-ball will continue to erode.

Football School
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Ha...Bowl games? You do realize that the minimum qualification for a bowl game is at least a .500 record?

But fine...let's look at the last decade. Orange Bowl loss... good bowl game..

We won the eaglebank bowl and the Mineke Car care bowl... oh, and we did win the Seattle bowl in 2002... *crowd goes wild*

Since the beginning of Jim Caldwell's career (which means since 1993) our record is 88-123 in a sub-par football conference...

Like I said, we are a golf/soccer school.
 
Pretty sure Wake is a School School with a Basketball Program and a Football Program, both of which need some inspiration.
 
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