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Should USF focus on Basketball rather than Football?

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Antigua was to basketball as _______ was to football.  We are much further ahead in football now and basketball will take time but we will get there in  time. 

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As I look at what it takes to develop and maintain a solid football program, it looks like our best option at this point would be Men's Basketball. If you make the tournament consistently, it brings s

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I look at Men's Football and Basketball as a form of Marketing. You probably aren't going to make money on it but that is okay. I agree with your original premise in that Basketball is proba

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Football is where the $ and the future of USF athletics is...the rest is window dressing. That does not mean we can't enjoy the other sports but at then end of the day the financial impact is directed toward football.

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Single handedly?  Guess you were not here in the Mccullum days or firing of Heath.  Then the Massiello fiasco.  

Basketball has been a mess for a long time.  There have been quite a few contributors to the mess and it has not been a short term thing.

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Single handedly?  Guess you were not here in the Mccullum days or firing of Heath.  Then the Massiello fiasco.  

Basketball has been a mess for a long time.  There have been quite a few contributors to the mess and it has not been a short term thing.

Not Muccullum but the rest yes. I mean I've never seen or heard of such a mass exodus of players under one coach. Have you?

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I just think even if you're not "making" money with football, the marketing it brings your school and brand is excellent.  2007-09 football success did great things for our beloved university IMO.

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Yeah, I can agree with the marketing aspect. I loved being up north and having people stop me to comment on my USF gear back in 2007/8. I just feel like the changing landscape of football seems like such an uphill battle that I'm not sure we can win. I would feel better about it if we could average 40k a game, but even with our best team ever, our support seems amateur at best. Without solid and consistent support, the task feels daunting. 

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Wow - Women's Basektball, Football, and "All other sports combine" COST about the same amount of money. I also look at these as marketing expenses and really only one of them appears radical out of line with the expected return.

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Given our success in hoops since the beginning of time it seems best to just focus on that.

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I just think even if you're not "making" money with football, the marketing it brings your school and brand is excellent.  2007-09 football success did great things for our beloved university IMO.

Read an article back in the day quoting Judy that we had the highest rate of increase in applicants' grades and SAT scores ever, and it was mainly due to the prestige from the football team.

 

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