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<blockquote data-quote="oceantide83" data-source="post: 132373128" data-attributes="member: 1428354"><p>My point is that what you are proposing isn't lost on all the other programs out there - that it's easier to have sustained success at basketball instead of football. It's unlikely WVU will ever be able to attain a sustained level of success in basketball even if they dumped football altogether and put all that money into basketball as it's illegal to pay recruits with it anyway. Supposedly, WVU has one of the best basketball practice facilities in the NCAA, yet what has been the return on that? Also, in basketball, Power 5 programs have a lot more talented lower division programs to compete with because of the nature of the sport. Elite basketball recruits know they don't have to go to blueblood programs in order to have a realistic shot at playing in the NCAA tournament. Also, you can't change a program's location and WVU isn't a destination school for 99.9% of recruits. Throw in NIL and the portal, and these just make it much more difficult for WVU to compete. Although many still hate Rich Rodriguez, he let an unpopular truth slip when he said &quot;West Virginia isn't so f***** special.&quot; If it were, the program wouldn't need to be sold to anyone and recruits would flock to it automatically, which will simply never be the case.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="oceantide83, post: 132373128, member: 1428354"] My point is that what you are proposing isn't lost on all the other programs out there - that it's easier to have sustained success at basketball instead of football. It's unlikely WVU will ever be able to attain a sustained level of success in basketball even if they dumped football altogether and put all that money into basketball as it's illegal to pay recruits with it anyway. Supposedly, WVU has one of the best basketball practice facilities in the NCAA, yet what has been the return on that? Also, in basketball, Power 5 programs have a lot more talented lower division programs to compete with because of the nature of the sport. Elite basketball recruits know they don't have to go to blueblood programs in order to have a realistic shot at playing in the NCAA tournament. Also, you can't change a program's location and WVU isn't a destination school for 99.9% of recruits. Throw in NIL and the portal, and these just make it much more difficult for WVU to compete. Although many still hate Rich Rodriguez, he let an unpopular truth slip when he said "West Virginia isn't so f***** special." If it were, the program wouldn't need to be sold to anyone and recruits would flock to it automatically, which will simply never be the case. [/QUOTE]

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