Do you think our basketball success will have any impact on football recruiting?
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I've noted their rise, but I've also noted that no program has been able to sustain championship caliber teams in both sports. OSU did it back in the early 2000's with an NC in football and a FF in BB in the same year, but they couldn't maintain the BB side. Florida or Florida State also flirted with both around the same time period. I think if you are a top flight kid playing either sport, you may not want the distraction a high profile program at the same school. And there is, of course, the financial and resource pressure of trying to maintain both. The programs noted here all have the apparent $$$ to do it, at least until the prime of the two sports starts to suffer, at which point the resources are channeled back into it. I won't even get into fan burnout and/or disinterest.
Interesting question.
Agreed, that it certainly can't hurt.
I think being a good to great football program probably has more effect on a basketball program than vice versa.
Agreed, that it certainly can't hurt.
I think being a good to great football program probably has more effect on a basketball program than vice versa.
Nor did iu basketball success under Knight translate to their football field.
It can, as in AL, TN today & LSU, Auburn on occasion in the past, but AD and school has to want it pretty bad & make the right moves.
It certainly can't hurt for recruits to see Boiler basketball getting talked about on ESPN and others. And read in national press. More for Coasters than midwest where you'd already know Purdue.
Not back to back years where the team reached #1 in the country.
That said, yeah, it might help football a little, but not much.
