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Originally Posted by BWillie007
I still don't understand how ppl continue to just not get it. Missouri and karate fans claim nobody cares about basketball. This is simply untrue. If nobody cared about it there wouldnt be a multi billion dollar contract for it. The large difference is how money is allocated to tthe schools. Basketball, as it currently stands does not make much more for any given conference. Look, football is more popular but its not a dramatic difference like there is comparing college bball to baseball. If superconferences do come to fruition, and move to their own "division"...KU will get snatched up like that. It just might be a while away until there are superconferences. Basically ND will decide when this all happens, which is why i root for their failure
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Plenty of people care about basketball, especially during the tournament. Nobody has said otherwise.
What people have said, and correctly at that, is that basketball has very little impact on the landscape of realignment. I don't know how you could argue otherwise.
The first 2 schools to move were Nebraska and Colorado. Basketball schools? I think not.
aTm went to the SEC. Basketball school?
TCU went to the Big East and now the Big XII. Basketball school?
Syracuse and Pitt were in the best basketball conference known to man. They left that conference for the sake of their football teams that were withering away in the Big East despite the fact that their basketball teams flourished.
Mizzou, Rutgers, and WVU are all being rumored to join new conferences. None of them are basketball schools.
If you think that this isn't all about football, its because you are choosing to ignore reality. The list above is almost comical in how obvious it is that basketball doesnt matter.