With NIL and the portal. The old basketball blue bloods are a dying breed. Duke and UConn are the only survivors. UNC, Kansas, Indiana and Kentucky are not scaring anyone. I predict in the near future there will be teams like Vanderbilt (tons of money) and other schools with a bunch of money start making noise in basketball. Hope Iowa State keeps TJ. He seems to have figured out how to do it with less money
Basketball Blue Bloods fading away
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MSU still good, Purdue has always been strong
Indiana hasn't been relevant since Knight have they?
KU agree
Honestly think NIL is more about coaches than players. You establish culture and find players that fit. A lot of coaches get players and assume they can adjust their style to playeer Tang is perfect example. Self might be as well it's a weird roster construction.
A lot of coaches pay for a Ferrari ( Kentucky coach comparison)in terms of players but then don't understand why it rides rough (they do), they are noisy (they are) and it's really expensive to try and fix.
A couple of guys signing G league players mid season tells you what you need to know.
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By the way any team that plays Houston and ISU back to back will need triage after it. You get beat down
Kansas hasn’t been the same since “Dollar” Bill had his heart attack.
Blue bloods build rosters differently. They commit to high profile recruits and high profile xfers. These aren’t always the best roster and culture fits. And they are high dollar commitments that can be hard to walk away from.
The xfer portal has made it possible for the other P5 schools to build rosters each and every season. There arent really rebuilds anymore. Just reloads. Most all of the P5 is better than it was a decade ago, because of this. So now those blue bloods have to compete with a conference full of competent and balanced rosters each and every game.
The xfer portal has made it possible for the other P5 schools to build rosters each and every season. There arent really rebuilds anymore. Just reloads. Most all of the P5 is better than it was a decade ago, because of this. So now those blue bloods have to compete with a conference full of competent and balanced rosters each and every game.
Indiana hasn't been that status for two decades + and Kentucky had some weird seasons even with Calipari. UNC too some years.
Imo the inverted piece to NIL etc. is coaches finding fit vs. stars.
Imo the inverted piece to NIL etc. is coaches finding fit vs. stars.
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It's also harder to stockpile 15 top-100 recruits on your bench because they can now get the same bag with more playing time at many other schools.
Let’s be real: those blue bloods were paying players under the table. Difference now is everyone can do it
Last year I was watching a KU game and they were struggling against some mid-tier Big 12 team and the blowhard commentator said that the senior leaders need to get the team together and remind them what it means to wear "Kansas" on your chest. I had a good chuckle at that. What it's meant to wear Kansas on your chest is you were getting a bag under water from Adidas.
You are correct on MSU. Purdue has a long way to go to be considered a blue bloods though. They have been really good but not next level.
Self has not figured out how to build a roster in this era. He just keeps taking the highest rated high school recruit and the high scoring
Transfer .
Purdue is not a BB, you have to win championships for that status.
UCLA isn’t irrelevant. 5 elite 8s and a final four the last 12 seasons.
And to really be real some of it wasn't even under the table.
It had nothing to do with the heart attack, and everything to do with what KU was doing becoming legal for everyone to do.
They won the 95 championship . They have had some good years but wooden paid more money to recruits than anyone back then.