Kietz comparing the Big XII North to the AFC West is illogical, because you don't have to recruit in the NFL.
Perceptions and rankings DO matter in recruiting.
Did you hear the caller?
The caller was an idiot. Keitzman's argument makes sense if you want to win the North division.
I tend to agree with Kietz. I'd rather KSU dominate the division than "be competitive" in a solid division.
I understood both points, but to say perception and rankings don't matter at all is just factually incorrect. It matters in the long run for your team to win the division in the future due to recruiting. It just does.
I'm not saying it matters as much as that caller said, but it isn't totally irrelevant even when you're only talking about winning your division.
The perception of your division's relative strength matters more than winning it? Rankings do indeed matter, but strength of schedule is a rather small part of that.
If your point is really that having your division's strength highly thought of is needed so that you can recruit so that you can then win the division, then I don't know what to tell you. Wouldn't having a highly thought of division mean that you were competing with more schools for the same regional kids? I'd rather have ISU, CU, MU, NU, ku all thought of as horrible, consistently dominate the division and scoop up kids from all those schools and then worry about the South in the Championship game.
