Even just ignoring the ISU to KSU comparison, having Oklahoma at 7 is laughable. Yeah their fans are terrible when it comes to basketball, but they still have a good basketball tradition.
Is Weber out a KSU?
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You could tell Bruce knew he was toast when he shook Huggins hand after the game as they talked for quite awhile.
Plus their last two hires have been coaches with significant previous success in Lon Kruger and Porter Moser. Clearly coaches don't care too much about taking a backseat to football as long as the program has the resources to be successful.
How can UT be 3 because money rules but OU is 7th? They are both football first schools with tons of money. And I feel like OU has had more recent and historical hoops success than UT.
and honestly I think we've seen how much football can impact your other sports as well....the SEC has gotten a lot better at basketball the past couple years and I honestly feel like I can say that their football success and popularity, has led to huge recruiting advantages in all sports and with their tv money, each one of those schools can improve facilities whenever they want to...the same thing applies to OU
There are a lot of coaches out there that if you look at what Weber has done over his career I think a lot of guys would take a resume like his:
497-302 overal record as a HC (.622)
15 seasons with 20 or more wins
15-13 in the NCAA Tournament, 3-2 NIT
1 NCAA Final Four and national championship game appearance
1 Elite 8
2 Sweet 16
6 regular season conference champions
1 National coach of the year (2005)
3 conference coach of the year awards
He's has sustained success at 3 D1 schools but at age 65 probably getting close to the end of his coaching career now and my guess if his heart is still in it to keep coaching he'll land at a non-P5 school next. His character has never been in question, I think he's a class act but his success at Illinois and KSU both came on the 1st half of his tenure then things started to tail off in the last 3 seasons. You can argue that he took over some good teams when Self left Illinois for Kansas and Frank Martin at KSU but he still coached those teams to success for several years too.
Seems like the kitties were running on fumes the last couple, 2-3 years. That Elite 8 team in 17-18 was stacked though, and were gonna make a run regardless of the matchups in the tournament, which happened to be pretty favorable. Seems like even when their talent tapered off in 2019-present, they were still always really gritty and competitive. That's all coaching. Not sure why he stopped getting talent to Manhattan, but he always had them ready to play.
I don't think he would have been as emotional as he was if that was really his primary goal.
Bruce gets his last shots here in postgame. He's a good dude and a great coach with talent. Generous. Quirky. Clean. But couldn't close enough to keep it going. He'll retire a rich man with B12 championship banners hanging in the rafters. Good for him. #emaw
Can I interest KSU in a slightly used Steve Prohm? He's good at midmajor schools.
