Whats going to happen to Kansas????

Coach34

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one of the country's best basketball programs heading for the Mountain West??? That can't be good for recruiting...football-wise it will probably be good for them
 

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one of the country's best basketball programs heading for the Mountain West??? That can't be good for recruiting...football-wise it will probably be good for them
 

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he said they could move to the MW with KSU, Baylor and also have UNLV, Utah, Byu and you are looking at a pretty good hoops conference.

Granted, Baylor and KSU have not shown long term success.
 

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Carl Torbush, who is currently thanking God he has only one season to get smeared by Big 12 offenses.
 

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Big East? Make a dominant bball conference that much better...
Mix of Big12 leftovers and top CUSA teams?...
MWC? That is a solid basketball conference, even if you dont think so. UNLV, BYU, New Mexico, San Diego State are all current solid teams. Utah usually isnt bad too. Add Baylor, KState and KU to that and you have a conference that is stacked with solid teams.

I read earlier today that the MWC doesnt want Baylor either...
 
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Kansas is one of those schools that will always be good in basketball no matter what conference they were in. I don't see where it is going to matter much. Lets say that the remain Big 12 schools go to the MWC, that makes a pretty damn good basketball league.

Kansas
KSU
Mizzou
Utah
BYU
Baylor (if they dont get the invite to PAC 10)
New Mexico
SDSU
 

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because they only had 3 NCAA's in the 10 years before he got there...and are 0-1 since he left
 

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thats my point...while the Mountain West is solid- I think it can definitely hurt Kansas...selling kids on playing Air Force and BYU is tougher than playing Texas and OU
 

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if they can do it, certainly Kansas can do it considering their tradition is a 1000% better than Memphis.
 

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Coach34 said:
selling kids on playing Air Force and BYU is tougher than playing Texas and OU
Selling kids on playing Pepperdine and Loyola Marymount is tougher than selling them on playing Washington and UCLA.
...yet Gonzaga manages to be one of the top programs in the entire Western US every year.

Selling kids on playing Southern Miss and Marshall is tougher than selling them on playing UK and Florida, yet Memphis does in every year.

Both have done it by playing tough OOC games and showing that you can make it into the second weekend of the NCAAT on a consistent basis at a smaller school.
 
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If people like Gonzaga and Memphis can do it then I don't see why Kansas can't and the MWC would be vastly superior to CUSA in basketball quality.
 

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Schools like Nebraska, Colorado, K-State, and Iowa St. don't exactly strike fear into anybody's hearts most years.</p>
 

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Do you really want to compare Conf USA or the Mountain West against Texas, Oklahoma, and Iowa State? Texas and OU have been in the NCAA Tourney 20 of the last 25 years...Iowa State 13 of 25...while not the ACC or Big East, those guys are certainly a big step up

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aGAIN my point is that Kansas is a program so deep in history in tradition and winning that it will not matter what conference they are in. Memphis is in a shitastic conference that is nowhere near what the new mountain west conference <span style="font-style: italic;">could </span>be with the additions. You are looking at a conference that could have at least 4 bids every year. It wouldnt be as good as the Big 12 but it would not be awful either.

By the way your cute little farmer remarks are quite amusing.
 

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show me success in the Mountain West that OU, Texas, and Iowa State has had over the last 25 years
 

dawgstudent

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whatever conference they are in, they will win. Hell, Memphis went to the Elite Eight with Larry Finch.

UNLV and Utah have been just as successful as Iowa State and Oklahoma.
 
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from wiki

As of 2009, UNLV is the fourth-winningest program by percentage (.712) in Division I history — ranking behind Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas, but ahead of UCLA, and Duke. UNLV is 33-16 all-time in the NCAA tournament with a .673 winning percentage. In July 2008, ESPNU named the program the eighth most prestigious collegiate basketball program in the nation since 1984

The University of Utah Utes have consistently been one of the most successful basketball programs in the NCAA. They are currently an NCAA Division I program that plays in the Mountain West Conference. The school has made the NCAA Tournament 26 times, which ranks 16th in NCAA history and 3rd behind UCLAand the University of Arizona in the Western United States. They last made the tournament in 2009. Utah won the NCAA Championship in 1944, defeating Dartmouth College 42–40 for the school's only basketball championship. They have also won the NIT once, defeating Kentucky in 1947.

Iowa State would more than likely be in the new MWC so they stay making another quality team that you brought up.