R Jay wrote:Edrick wrote:I think Creighton is destined to be a bottom 1/3 program. This isn't any fault of their's, they just reside in the middle of a recruiting black hole. Can't do much about that, but it's not changing. It's at a distinct disadvantage to rest of the league because of it.
Was about to say the same thing about Butler. Chris Holtmann will jump ship soon for a better offer. Roosie and Dunham graduate after this year. Martin and Lewis won't be able to hide behind those seniors. Good luck competing with Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State, and Xavier for recruits with a fourth head coach in several years.
R Jay wrote:Edrick wrote:I think Creighton is destined to be a bottom 1/3 program. This isn't any fault of their's, they just reside in the middle of a recruiting black hole. Can't do much about that, but it's not changing. It's at a distinct disadvantage to rest of the league because of it.
Was about to say the same thing about Butler. Chris Holtmann will jump ship soon for a better offer. Roosie and Dunham graduate after this year. Martin and Lewis won't be able to hide behind those seniors. Good luck competing with Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame, Kentucky, Louisville, Ohio State, and Xavier for recruits with a fourth head coach in several years.
notkirkcameron wrote:For me, this was an easy question.
DePaul is garbage. Like....wow. I knew they were bad, but I didn't know they were "Lose to Arkansas-Little Rock by 22 at home" bad until Saturday. But if DePaul could ever get their shit together....look out. Then they're the pre-eminent college basketball team in Chicago playing in a sparkling new arena in a recruiting hotbed. Their only local competition are a mid-table MVC newbie (Loyola), a mid-table Horizon League branch campus (UIC), "Chicago's Big Ten Team" that gets outdrawn by the visitors almost every home game (Northwestern), and a team that somehow is still a member of the WAC (Chicago State).
Meanwhile, Dayton went to the Elite 8 two years ago. They finished 2nd in the A-10 last year. They are AS GOOD AS THEY WILL EVER BE, and even at their peak they're still a nobody. Put more succinctly, Dayton's ceiling is DePaul's floor.
I'll take DePaul's potential (and comical dysfunction in the meantime) over Dayton's best-day irrelevance.
notkirkcameron wrote:For me, this was an easy question.
DePaul is garbage. Like....wow. I knew they were bad, but I didn't know they were "Lose to Arkansas-Little Rock by 22 at home" bad until Saturday. But if DePaul could ever get their shit together....look out. Then they're the pre-eminent college basketball team in Chicago playing in a sparkling new arena in a recruiting hotbed. Their only local competition are a mid-table MVC newbie (Loyola), a mid-table Horizon League branch campus (UIC), "Chicago's Big Ten Team" that gets outdrawn by the visitors almost every home game (Northwestern), and a team that somehow is still a member of the WAC (Chicago State).
Meanwhile, Dayton went to the Elite 8 two years ago. They finished 2nd in the A-10 last year. They are AS GOOD AS THEY WILL EVER BE, and even at their peak they're still a nobody. Put more succinctly, Dayton's ceiling is DePaul's floor.
I'll take DePaul's potential (and comical dysfunction in the meantime) over Dayton's best-day irrelevance.
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