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<blockquote data-quote="xWVU2010x" data-source="post: 132374356" data-attributes="member: 1467482"><p>Lol really that’s your take? It’s their Catholicism and locations? Gonzaga is an annual top seed and has broken through to two Final Fours since 2017, they have done an excellent job thinking outside the box and tapping into overseas recruiting to keep up with schools with much more resources. There are so many crap Catholic basketball schools in this country, if it was that simple to tap into Catholic school recruiting, they would all do it. As for UConn, if what they have done is so easy then why does every other NYC area (and New England for that manner) school suck? Let’s also keep in mind that there was speculation the rich and mighty UConn was flirting with having to shut down athletics because of how far in the red they were, primarily due to football.</p><p></p><p>You’re picking random reasons and running with it because you’re a defeatist. There is no defined reason we can’t be a basketball power, there are now countless different ways to build a competitive roster because of the new transfer rules and NIL, just because the obvious “we’ll just outpay everyone” avenue isn’t available to us like it would be to a Kentucky or some SEC programs, does not mean our program cannot thrive.</p><p></p><p>WVU has recently been ranked 20th in terms of licensing sales, over schools like Kansas and Clemson.</p><p></p><p>WVU as a large school has over 200k alumni.</p><p></p><p>WVU has recently ranked 29th in MBB attendance with a very small immediate market to sell tickets to and mediocre results.</p><p></p><p>WVU’s location is basically western PA, being about 15 minutes from the border, with manageable drives to Pittsburgh, DC, Baltimore, Harrisburg, and Cleveland from campus if you’re gonna call Storrs, CT “the NYC area”. Pittsburgh under Dixon had a regular season run that we are more than capable of emulating.</p><p></p><p>New arena, new marketing, new basketball coach. That should be the springboard for a new era of WVU athletics. Turn the football program into KU football and throw a parade whenever it wins a game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="xWVU2010x, post: 132374356, member: 1467482"] Lol really that’s your take? It’s their Catholicism and locations? Gonzaga is an annual top seed and has broken through to two Final Fours since 2017, they have done an excellent job thinking outside the box and tapping into overseas recruiting to keep up with schools with much more resources. There are so many crap Catholic basketball schools in this country, if it was that simple to tap into Catholic school recruiting, they would all do it. As for UConn, if what they have done is so easy then why does every other NYC area (and New England for that manner) school suck? Let’s also keep in mind that there was speculation the rich and mighty UConn was flirting with having to shut down athletics because of how far in the red they were, primarily due to football. You’re picking random reasons and running with it because you’re a defeatist. There is no defined reason we can’t be a basketball power, there are now countless different ways to build a competitive roster because of the new transfer rules and NIL, just because the obvious “we’ll just outpay everyone” avenue isn’t available to us like it would be to a Kentucky or some SEC programs, does not mean our program cannot thrive. WVU has recently been ranked 20th in terms of licensing sales, over schools like Kansas and Clemson. WVU as a large school has over 200k alumni. WVU has recently ranked 29th in MBB attendance with a very small immediate market to sell tickets to and mediocre results. WVU’s location is basically western PA, being about 15 minutes from the border, with manageable drives to Pittsburgh, DC, Baltimore, Harrisburg, and Cleveland from campus if you’re gonna call Storrs, CT “the NYC area”. Pittsburgh under Dixon had a regular season run that we are more than capable of emulating. New arena, new marketing, new basketball coach. That should be the springboard for a new era of WVU athletics. Turn the football program into KU football and throw a parade whenever it wins a game. [/QUOTE]
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