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re: Totally, utterly and miserably defeated basketball check-in thread
Posted on 3/6/24 at 11:46 am to Faurot fodder
Posted on 3/6/24 at 11:46 am to Faurot fodder
I'm still holding out some hope that the stacked class next year can help turn the corner. But yikes. What a mess.
It also makes zero sense to me that Mizzou cannot put it together in basketball. Mid-major programs with 10% of Mizzou's budget, facilities, and talent pool can consistently put together tournament-worthy teams. How can we assemble a football program that wins 11 games with an SEC schedule and beats Ohio State in a bowl game, but we can't pay a couple blue chip basketball recruits to come get 20 wins in Columbia? It is objectively far more difficult and costly to build a winning football program than a winning basketball program.
It also makes zero sense to me that Mizzou cannot put it together in basketball. Mid-major programs with 10% of Mizzou's budget, facilities, and talent pool can consistently put together tournament-worthy teams. How can we assemble a football program that wins 11 games with an SEC schedule and beats Ohio State in a bowl game, but we can't pay a couple blue chip basketball recruits to come get 20 wins in Columbia? It is objectively far more difficult and costly to build a winning football program than a winning basketball program.
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Posted on 3/6/24 at 11:49 am to BreakawayZou83
Posted on 3/6/24 at 1:10 pm to BreakawayZou83
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It also makes zero sense to me that Mizzou cannot put it together in basketball.
I can explain. In 1996, as a recent Mizzou grad, I was watching Mizzou football lose to Memphis at home. I was near the top of the stadium on the east side. At one point I turned around and looked at the Hearnes Center and thought, I'd gladly trade our good basketball program for a good football program.
And, you see what happened: Mizzou went 5-4 the rest of that season and then ended the 13 consecutive losing season streak the next year. Norm Stewart was gone shortly thereafter and a year after that, Pinkel was hired. And, in spite of the few good basketball seasons afterwards, and the fact that football has had considerable growing pains, basically, my wish was granted.
So, sorry, that was the deal. But, I'd still take it 100 times out of 100. Having a cellar-dwelling football team is far worse than a last place basketball team.
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