re: Pucker up Bama fans...Cal will be leading candidate for the Texas job.

I'll also just add that comparing blue bloods in basketball and football is a little bit different in 2021, IMHO. You have to be at certain schools in football to win big. You have to be rich, be in an area where you can sign tons of great players and be in a league that gives you a chance to consistently get to the playoffs. It's fair or not but it is what it is.

In basketball, you don't have to have most of that stuff. You need a place that will invest in what you need, be in a conference that is good enough to boost your tournament resume and be able to recruit (either via your connections or location). The required necessities to be an elite basketball program are far less than to be an elite football program, and because of that I think the pressure to go to one of the 15-20 traditional schools is less.

Now, there are exceptions to that rule - Kentucky, Kansas and Carolina, mainly. Duke maybe but to be honest we don't know what non-K Duke looks like in the modern era. UCLA would have been one of those jobs but 2 decades later it's kind of shown not to be.