how are they going to the CFP when they have two losses to UT?!?!?
Bama? of course not.. But you can't tell me that KSU/Tech/Baylor/TCU shouldn't atleast be in the top 40 with the likes of UT, ou, osu and even WV.
But your chart didn’t give national rankings it just gave conference rankings and how many 4 and 5 stars everyone signed this past year.
if the schools I mentioned finished in the top 40, it would look much better than the all the zero's for 4 star players.. KSU hasn't done that since the Purple Wizard was on the sidelines, Gary P hasn't had a good season since.. 2016? Maybe Campbell is just taking advantage of a bad conference
Not always, WVU has more 4’s then junior but is behind in the rankings.
It certainly will be telling With the expectations. But it is only one season. Won’t judge him just on that.
Anyone that can get Tech into the top 40 is a recruiting genius. The only place that may be harder to recruit to than Lubbock is El Paso.
Leach had them rolling in 2009-2012 classes.. Had the #17 and #19 national class in there... it can happen.
Those are anomalies IMO. The only way to sustain it would be to have a string of long term successful seasons. And something like that begins the old "chicken or the egg" discussion.
yeah but he also had top 30 classes to go with it. I get that you have to have success and then maintain it, but Tech should be better on the trail than what it is currently. Kliff best class was ranked 32 nationally.. then it went all the way up to 78 in the country smh. I get the angst that Tech fans are going through.
I think it's also tough to have a breakout season when you are playing a round robin schedule since everyone is familiar with each other.. But seeing Baylor and ISU break out recently.. not sure if that's the case anymore.
Oh, I agree totally that they should do better than what they are currently. They still won't be able to maintain classes close to the top 25.
Kansas is a welfare queen. Why should they put any more effort into building a respectable football program than is absolutely necessary when they're going to get their piece of the pie anyway? If you put a pencil to it, they're actually far better off financially being a bottom feeder in football with a shitty 50,000 seats stadium (and spending a fraction of what other Big XII schools spend on football-related amenities) and just pour a helluva lot less money into maintaining their basketball program.
Think the SEC sent Vandy a similar message as well
Let's be real. There are a lot of schools that are living off the revenue that comes from having a few teams that are marquee draws for the networks. Maybe not to the extent Kansas seems to be doing, but there are some other pretty big tit suckers out there. As long as those marquee teams are willing to subidize those "welfare queens", they'll keep cashing the checks.
All except Baylor and TCU. They don't have to disclose.
Damn! If I'm reading the one with the 8 public institutions correctly, TCU at $120 million would be 3rd in total revenue behind only Texas and OU. Please tell me I'm reading that wrong.
Good find, bro.
This makes it even more frustrating for frog fans. Gary should be getting much better classes of incoming talent.. they bring in money, are in one of, if not the hottest recruiting areas in the US.