Texas Tech vs Kansas
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KU recruits well. They have always recruited well since the Roy Williams era and location can take a hike in this conversation. If you are a team who is sitting at or near the top of college basketball year after year, recruiting well comes with the territory.
Keep me outta that "you Kansas fans". I just said you hadn't been to LFK and any position you take is ill-informed. Football Saturdays be damned
To each their own.
I'd rather be competitive at everything every year, rather than winning one national championship in one sport every 35 years, and being terrible at everything else.
RIPThe old doogie died when we shot 2 free throws to your 35....
I'll recover one of these days.
Seriously? You'd give your left nut for ONE national title in anything that matters. Hell, even a Helms. RollLaugh
I Googled WVU National Championships. Other than a great rifle team (I'd really like to know how many teams compete, BTW no troll) WVU athletic department has been on a drought since 1942. KU OTOH has 10 and only three of those are basketball. Kinda crushes yet another one of your narratives.
We've also been nationally competitive in WVB recently.
I want a championship bad, can't deny that.
Still... seen WVU football play for 2 NC's in my lifetime and win 3 BCS bowl games. Always in the top 25.
Seen WVU basketball go to a Final Four, win a Big East Tourney at MSG, go to multiple elite 8's and sweet 16's. Always in the top 25.
It would be hard to only have a couple months to look forward to every year as a college sports fan... and all but one of them end in disappointment in my lifetime.
Screw all that 14 in a row crap. Most impressive record by a KU team set today is that this is the 8th straight time KU has beaten an AP top 10 team on the road.
Congrats to Javon Carter on his career at WVU. It's fun watching a player stay for 4 years and in his final season be considered one of the best players in the Big 12. KU had one last year in Frank Mason and Huggins has the same thing in Carter.
In the last 10 years alone, I've seen my basketball team play in two national title games and win one in dramatic fashion. And contend every other year and win its conference every single year.
I've seen my pro baseball team go to back to back World Series and win one.
Our pro soccer team won a championship and is one of the top franchises year in, year out.
My NFL team is generally competitive and its best era is about to begin.
Oh and even the lowly college football team won a couple bowls and an Orange Bowl in that span.
But....you're right!
Wow.
As a WVU fan, I'm ashamed I didn't remember that. That's one of our top (former) rivals.
Even more impressive.
I was born in Pittsburgh, and am a die-hard Steelers fan so let's not talk pro sports. I blow you away there. Winking
KU only shot 2 FTs and only drew 4 fouls on TT through the 1st 25 minutes of play. Then again, we were playing offense a lot like WVU during that time. JUMP SHOTS!!The old doogie died when we shot 2 free throws to your 35....
I'll recover one of these days.
KU wasn't the same team in the 2nd half. They started out hot from everywhere but near the end of the 1st half, KU went cold. In the 2nd half, Graham took over the game. He drove, drove, drove & drove to the bucket. As good as TTU is, it's amazing what happens when a PG can create.
Location as in TALENT. When you don’t have a national brand, you have to rely on location, as in location near a recruiting hotbed. When Hugs was in Cincy, he had access to a lot of good recruits due to location. WVU is more secluded. Though it does have good talent nearby, but any good recruits in the area have a bevy of top flight ACC programs that you have to compete with. I was not inferring anything negative about Morgantown itself, just showing why it would be more difficult for him to recruit there. The only reason he was able to recruit to KSU was because he had a lot of time on his hands. He wouldn’t have been able to keep up those connections had he stayed in Manhattan.
Yep, and when we didn’t shoot a three we drove and we drove often. None of that midrange stuff. When you guys weren’t shooting 3s you were shooting midrange jumpers. And when you actually took it down low, your guys dropped back for a fadeaway or a hook shot rather than taking it to the basket. I’ve never seen a team take it to the hoop so few times as I did WVU that night.
We were hot from three because we moved the ball well. We got great looks. We started to miss them though in the 2nd half, so we started driving.
That is only part of the equation. When everybody is offering $, the chance to win is going to make a big difference.
For sure. Best ball movement I've seen against Tech. Like I said, i thought both teams played well
Well it’s 2 in the last 30, and 3 other appearances in the title game.
And hey, I LOVED our Orange Bowl win and other bowl wins we’ve had when we weren’t so terrible. But nothing compares to the joy I felt when Mario hit that shot and then when got that win. It’s truly another level.
Again, I doubt it. Don’t mean necessarily directly, but players get money through agents and boosters, and Huggs knows what’s going on, like all coaches.
KU is hitting their stride. Hopefully we don't see a letdown. This season when KU looks like they're getting their stride they hit a 3-4 game lull.
The injuries have been sad for Tech. Hard to overcome. The Evans injury really hamstrings Tech. Before he drove fearlessly into the paint. Can't do that right now like he could and Tech definitely takes the hit late without a healthy Evans.
Once in your lifetime... has to feel good.
Still dont think I'd be willing to be a doormat in football for eternity for that one moment.
Name recognition. As I mentioned earlier, location hurts you because you have a lot of competition for regional recruits, but don’t have the name to recruit on a national level. When you can’t recruit nationally, you have to rely on local recruits. Too much competition.
Not willing. I’d rather the football program was better. But I’d rather excel in one thing than be middle of the pack in everything else.
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