Well...Louisville just finished Top 25 in the Football AP again and Top 10 in the Coaches Basketball Poll.....there are worse things than wanting to have two good programs.
Geography aside, Louisville is consistently in the Top 25 and is decent in basketball as well,
Okay, got some sleep--let's see if my brain functions. I meant no disrespect to anyone. I think Jurich is the single best athletic director in America and Louisville has an athletic program to emulate.
However it's a different breed of school from a B1G school. And, in many ways, it was TV that made Louisville. It wasn't the quality of athletics alone; it was the willingness to take those mid-week night timeslots that brought the exposure that ultimately paid off for them and got them where they are.
But, in the land of my admiration, the number one school to emulate, in my opinion, is Stanford. Even with their admission and academic standards, they manage to somehow have a great athletic department, great research--heck, they have it all.
When Rutgers joined, there was talk that in twenty years they'd be the east coast Stanford. I'm thinking that twenty years from now, Rutgers will be...well, Rutgers--especially without Pernetti. (Huge loss, and he was crucial in guiding Rutgers through the obstacles to B1G membership.) If Pernetti were still at Rutgers, I'd say UConn's hopes for a B1G might be fading.
But the more Rutgers stumbles around, the better it is for UConn.
