Could Our Football Team Perform Better than Our Basketball Team In Its Current State?

[ThePUNisher96]

Thought exercise: Take the five best basketball players (e.g. the players that have the most experience with high school basketball) from the football team and make them the starting line up of the men's basketball team and make Campbell the coach of the basketball team.

Does this lineup perform better than our current starting lineup with Prohm at the helm?

I think it might

Edit: Of course as soon as I say this it turns out the MBB team is playing well against Baylor so admittedly yes it was a dumb question to ask but it was meant as a purely hypothetical question and wasn't mean spirited at all.

Also is there a way to delete OPs in this forum because I can't seem to find it.

 

[CoKane]

Thought exercise: Take the five best basketball players (e.g. the players that have the most experience with high school basketball) from the football team and make them the starting line up of the men's basketball team and make Campbell the coach of the basketball team.

Does this lineup perform better than our current starting lineup with Prohm at the helm?

I think it might

All they have to do is win once to be better and do nothing to be even. The answer is probably not but the fact that the worst case scenario means that they tie is a massive oof

 

[Cycl1]

No

 

[ThePUNisher96]

All they have to do is win once to be better and do nothing to be even. The answer is probably not but the fact that the worst case scenario means that they tie is a massive oof

That's the most damning aspect of the state of our basketball program right now

 

[DeereClone]

Charlie Kolar played high school basketball with Trey Young.....so yes.

Oh and if you haven't heard, Georges played high school basketball with Nerlens Noel.

Now someone hook me up with a job at ESPN.

 

[IASTATE07]

This is ridiculous.

 

[davegilbertson]

This is ridiculous.

Isn't it?

 

[HFCS]

Does Matt Campbell get to coach?

 

[ThePUNisher96]

Does Matt Campbell get to coach?

I said that in the OP

 

[ThePUNisher96]

This is ridiculous.

I admit that it is in the "dumb question" territory but I still thought it might be an interesting thought experiment

 

[IASTATE07]

I admit that it is in the "dumb question" territory but I still thought it might be an interesting thought experiment

It would not go well for the football players.

 

[JRE1975]

The football players would all foul out in the first 10 minutes of the game!

 

[ISUEmbassy]

The football players would all foul out in the first 10 minutes of the game!

We lose by 40-50 instead of 20-30

 

[Gunnerclone]

I will never understand the hard on some people have for the “football players playing basketball” fantasy.

 

[ForbinsAscynt]

When I was a kid, I used to ask “why doesn’t Nebraska play in the NFL?”

 

[Land Grant]

This is stupid and mean spirited toward the players. I suggest deleting this thread.

 

[Cydkar]

This is on Alabama could beat the worst NFL team level.

 

[CoKane]

The football players would all foul out in the first 10 minutes of the game!

Isheem Young just ******* lights up Connor McCaffery 5 seconds in and gets ejected..... hold up, we sure this isn't a good idea?

 

[Cycl0nepower]

Thought exercise: Take the five best basketball players (e.g. the players that have the most experience with high school basketball) from the football team and make them the starting line up of the men's basketball team and make Campbell the coach of the basketball team.

Does this lineup perform better than our current starting lineup with Prohm at the helm?

I think it might

If they went head-to-head, our basketball team would destroy them.

 

[deadeyededric]

We might be in the top 25 if we were D2.