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TITLETOWN - A Decade Long Celebration Of The Greatest Achievement In College Athletics History => Kansas State Basketball is hard => Topic started by: Pete on December 04, 2014, 09:53:47 PM
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When this country finally wakes up and recognizes the horrible debilitating reality of American football and bans it (like they did with boxing), what will happen to basketball?
Will schools with VAST resources, like Michigan and Florida, start getting good at basketball, when they no longer focus on football? What happens when Texas finally decides to give two shits about basketball????
We could see an entire change in the power structure of college basketball, couldn't we?
Picture a world where the largest and most powerful universities focused on basketball...what would that look like? Who are the "winners" and who are the "losers?"
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Creighton: winner
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Harvard: winner
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The country as a whole would be the losers
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KU: loser
they already dont care about football and did you see that game they played against kentucky :frown:
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will ksu set records when 40,000 cross two state lines to see us play Alabama in the jerryworld bowl?
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They'll freeze the fields of the great coliseums and men's figure skating will take center stage!
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What if Duke just focused on basketball? Holy eff they could be amazing.
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I think Kentucky probably remains king. They have the most history in the sport, but they probably don't dominate like they have the past 100 years or whatever
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U.S. sports fans want to see hittin' so they can holler while drinking beer. If there is no football, someone will combine basketball, rasslin, and MMA fighting. A nut numbing paralyzer hold will slow down dunking. Big 12 would rule BB. Without football a lot of the big shot schools have no money - like South Carolina. Frank panhandling, imagine.
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Football will end, but not with a BANG. Rather--a whimper. The biggest stakeholders will hold out the longest. The deepest, strongest roots will clutch the hardest to the stony rubble. I will be in a wheelchair or dead by then, so I'm not so much worried about KU's ability to compete when that happens.
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Football will end, but not with a BANG. Rather--a whimper. The biggest stakeholders will hold out the longest. The deepest, strongest roots will clutch the hardest to the stony rubble. I will be in a wheelchair or dead by then, so I'm not so much worried about KU's ability to compete when that happens.
"Strongest roots" won't matter a bit compared to deeper pockets and larger numbers of fans because it's an entertainment business....and there is no "stony rubble," there is only a shiny new surface on which to compete.
But, college athletics as we know it will be dead long before football. So, we should really be talking about who will benefit the most between Professional Soccer leagues, NBA, MLB, and NHL.
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the key here, and i'm sure someone can build a graph- but the key is to continue to excel at football and exploit the athletes as long as possible, while accruing as much capital as possible until the DOF (death of football). at DOF the colleges who played it smart will have a large nest egg which they can use as leverage to pour into their basketball programs; whether it be to build facilities, line the pockets of television executives who make decisions to feature their school's games, or to buy student athlete commitments. after DOF, only the pre-DOF blue blood college football schools will be able to continue their superior athletics programs, the other schools- schools like KU, won't have the coffers to continue in the athletics arms race and will be forced to discontinue their sports programs- relegating them all to club status. they'll become pure academic institutions while bluebloods like k-state and duke will continue to move forward and advance the "ball down the field" so to speak.
it's all coming in very short order and we're #blessed to have the animal and currie leading our institution into the post-DOF era.
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Wouldn't it make sense to just turn the giant stadiums into soccer fields? Might as well right?
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baseball country
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I own futures in college Ultimate Frisbee. I prolly die a very rich man.
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NASCAR will probably be the biggest benefactor of the death of college football.
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NASCAR will probably be the biggest benefactor of the death of college football.
By far.
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NASCAR will probably be the biggest benefactor of the death of college football.
nfl, not college
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NASCAR will probably be the biggest benefactor of the death of college football.
nfl, not college
Pretty sure all nfl fans are already nascar fans, so...