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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
If I were Mizzou, I'd go full-bore into basketball again like the years you referenced. First and obviously, there's no way to win football games down there long-term in the East. But more than that, the SEC is weak in basketball and only Kentucky is an elite program. Huge vacuum Mizzou could fill. Plus tons of untapped recruits down there that only Kentucky and Memphis have accessed for years.
That's my advice to you. Arky tried to become a football school again, like Mizzou did, and they're back to the bottom again. Short term football competitiveness is just fool's gold for 75% of programs.
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2 years ago, Arkansas finished top 5 in football. Then they lost their coach and sucked. What happened? They plucked a coach from Wisconsin...one who had just finished taking his team to it's third straight Rose Bowl.
Teams in the SEC get better players and better coaches because the SEC is the only conference that matters in college football. That's why SEC fans pimp their own conference. SEC success helps all of the teams (and hurts the rest of the conferences).
Just look at Big 12 recruiting. The best class in the Big 12 for next year is Oklahoma...at 13-15 depending on the site doing the rankings. That would be 8th best in the SEC. Ole Miss just locked up the #2 recruiting class in the country. Meanwhile, KSU came in at #56 despite being the class of the Big 12. The worst class in the SEC came in at #39...and they're the defending national champions in basketball... Must suck to be them, right Wickedson?