Question for the board regarding basketball downslide vs. football uprise

[CadaverDawg]

Would you be okay with our basketball team being the worst team in the SEC for the next 5-7 years, if it meant the football team will win 8-10 games per year during that same 5-7 year span?<div>
</div><div>If so, would you be okay with basketball AND baseball being the worst in the SEC for the next 5-7 years, if it meant the football team winning a SEC Championship and 8-10 wins per year during that 5-7 year span?</div><div>
</div><div>I'm curious to see what everyone says. Being in the cellar in two of the big 3 sports is tough to handle, but winning a SEC Championship and being a top program in the SEC in football can help overcome a lot of disappointment. Discuss.</div>

 

[dawgstudent]

I love football but if we lose in basketball - I get more pissed about it. So it would be tough for me to just suck in basketball for a long period of time.

 

[MaxwellSmart]

Baseball though is a different subject. Nothing is worth being last in baseball.

 

[JimmyBags]

Its boring as hell. The players are majority white so you know the best athletes don't mess with it. Baseball is fading in America. I would dis ban our baseball program to get Rodney Hood back

 

[klerushund]

I'd take a SEC title in football at almost any cost. It would be tough to suck in basketball, but worth it. As for baseball, who cares? It's as important to me as women's track and field. I bet most avid sports fans couldn't even tell you who won the national title in baseball last year. If it guaranteed a SEC title in football I'd bulldoze Dudy Noble tomorrow.<div>
</div><div>However, it's easier to win a national title in basketball than football. So I'd be interested to see if anyone would be willing for our football team to suck if it meant we were a national power in basketball (i.e., multiple trips to Elite 8, Final Four, etc.).</div>

 

[Foronce]

I seem to think I am the same way ...I graduated from MSU in 2004, so I really don't expect much out of football ...I expect them to win non conference games, but I feel as though we are an underdog just scrapping our way through SEC games. I was a little upset at losing at Auburn this year cause I felt we should have been a better team, but I was over it after about 25-30 minutes

Now basketball, I view it as if Stansbury is the all-time winningest coach and we are favored in a game and we come out and **** the bed like say we did at Ole Miss this year or lose at home to Akron ...it makes me miss the next couple of game, because of how frustrated and sick I feel at watching them try to compete in a game they should dominate

 

[tenureplan]

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[Foronce]

i think i could manage.

 

[tenureplan]

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[FireworksForJeffy]

Nationwide, basketball attendance is down. Last year, baseball attendance saw a slight increase, and in the SEC, it was a rather large increase. Baseball is definitely not fading. If anything, basketball is.<div>
</div><div>Keep in mind that MSU is one of three schools that last year averaged higher attendance in baseball than basketball. </div>

 

[drt7891]

Its boring as hell. The players are majority white so you know the best athletes don't mess with it. Baseball is fading in America. I would dis ban our baseball program to get Rodney Hood back

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[klerushund]

While it may be true that baseball attendance was up last year and basketball attendance was down, you left out the most important part. Up and down from what?

 

[ckDOG]

The last 7 sports seasons that resulted in NCCAT appearances, only 1 of them resulting in a bowl trip (2007-2008 Liberty Bowl + NCAAT 2nd Round). The last 6 seasons where we went to a bowl, our bball team went just under 0.600. During that same time frame, we averaged a winning record in football during the seasons we didn't make it to the NCAA's. Sadly enough, that qualifies as success for MSU football.

Not very scientific, but I thought it was interesting.

 

[Rebels7]

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[maroonmania]

I guess for me, since I'm more invested in football as a season ticket holder and make the trips to the games, if it had to be one or the other I'd definitely take the football success.

 

[RonnyAtmosphere]

...basketball is a game played in-doors, constantly corrupted by incompetent officials & egomaniacal ball hogs, boasts coaches that look like Mafia underbosses, has so many time outs it's impossible to develop a game rhythm & is constantly the victim of its own buffoonery because the alleged best basketball players in the country can't even make free throws.

If I could sacrifice the MSU basketball program for a single BCS bowl appearance in football, I would do it in a heartbeat.

If I could sacrifice MSU basketball for a MSU baseball appearance in the CWS championship game, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Between college football & college baseball, college basketball is the red-headed step child crack addict.

 

[tenureplan]

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