NCAA Tournament Game Thread: #16 Southern vs. #1 Gonzaga


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Schools like Gonzaga, Butler, VCU, and George Mason don't have the "burden" of football draining their scholarship dollars. Football is the focus in the SWAC and fans would not go for funneling much money away from football in favor of basketball.
 
stroke said:
I never understood how Basketball and other sports where we compete against All DI has never been the priorty Sports. If we build our Basketball Programs we can be on National TV (sportscenter, etc) every Saturday and Monday for 4 months.
Football is the cash cow but from the figures Ive seen at Grambling, it really isnt. What we brought in, we spent in that same Season. We need to take a Couple of Dollars out of Football and build these basketball programs.
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Grambling is a football school. Are you sure that's a good idea, especially coming off the worst season the Tigers have ever had on the gridiron?

I know everyone gets caught up in what Gonzaga and FGCU are doing, but those schools don't have the albatross that is football ingrained in the culture of those schools, or have to invest a significant amount of money in them.
 



Journalist said:
Now is a great time for our schools/SWAC to perform a good SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats).
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+1000000000000000000000000 :bowdown:

One would THINK that athletic programs that are funded the way HBCUs are would do this every single year but... :smh: :smh: :smh:
 
I know we are going to be even better.

Can't wait for signing day in a few more weeks.

5 transfers from D-1 schools. :read:
 
Devil's Gun Trigger Man said:
Same issue we have with everything else, if we fund our programs better we will have better results. The level of coaching in the SWAC is definitely on an upswing with Davis at TXSU and Banks at SU, now we just need to get better players. In college basketball all you need is 1-2 stars and just surround them with kids who know their role.
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I said this to some people on Facebook. Banks and SU got a lot of exposure for ALMOST beating Gonzaga. Davis will have TSU good as long as he is there. Ivory always will have UAPB ready. Chico will have Valley ready. JSU just got their new coach who can tap into Jackson. The SWAC is on the upswing.

Plus our kids usually stay all four years unless they are transfers so that's always a plus.
 
Jag-BR said:
I know we are going to be even better.

Can't wait for signing day in a few more weeks.

5 transfers from D-1 schools. :read:
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Coach Banks of course didn't want to talk about that on the WAFB show tonight. lol. But I did get to ask a question about the SWAC coming together to do things so they can avoid always being a 16-seed.
 
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