02-19-2007, 06:53 PM | #1 |
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question to the Ute fans
If you could only be good in either football or basketball, which sport would you choose?
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02-20-2007, 12:48 AM | #2 |
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Only one or the other?
That's a tough one, but I'd have to go with basketball because the Utes would have a chance to win a national championship. Football, OTH, has been ruined by the BCS. There is no chance for Utah to ever win a championship.
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02-20-2007, 01:13 AM | #3 |
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Basketball for sure. I prefer college hoops to college football. Also, if I am good I will make more money in the NBA and have it be less physically demanding on me.
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02-20-2007, 01:23 AM | #4 |
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For me, I would choose football. After all, we have the national championship to defend.
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I will to my dying day blame BYU and their national championship (which I never saw happen so it's almost as if it didn't happen) for the BCS. Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us.
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02-20-2007, 03:00 AM | #7 |
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No. I wouldn't want my Cougar friends to think that I blame them for everything.
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02-20-2007, 05:46 AM | #8 |
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Easy. BASKETBALL.
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02-20-2007, 12:51 PM | #9 |
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Personally, I would choose football...it is the big dog in the world of college sports. Basketball is king during March maddness and then largely forgotten until the last 5-10 games of the season leading up to conference tournaments.
Sure, making a final four run is incredible and the sports community is a buzz, but it doesn't last. An example of this would be George Mason here in Fairfax. I think that season tickets for this year were sold out during the final four run last year. Well, Jai Lewis and other key components graduated and left a sub-par team expected to perform at a final four level when they are no where near close to that ability. Sure it helped recruiting, and it energized the local fans like never before (Mason is a comuter school as well), but at the end of the day, George Mason will likely never "Pull a George Mason again." Moving over to football, Boise St. can stay in the WAC and dominate year in and year out and occasionally make a BCS run and add 13 million to thier own and everyone else's pocket. Football drives all of the other college sports financially and from a business/marketing perspective. There's just more interest. Ask Duke fans if they would trade one national title in basketball to win the ACC and go to a BCS bowl in football and I bet a number of them will. Football is king.
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Some schools are simply basketball schools, while others are football schools. Duke, like UCONN is a Basketball school. They are also Satan.
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