For example, UCLA, Duke, North Carolina always has good basketball teams but mediocre football teams. USC has great football but mediocre basketball (although this year is ok). However Florida and Ohio St. seems to have both sports down cold.
2007-01-04 08:53:37 · 7 answers · asked by trer 3 in Sports ➔ Other - Sports
As others have said, tradition has a lot to do with it. Teams like USC, Notre Dame, Michigan, Alabama, Texas, etc. are perennial powerhouses in football with limited success in basketball so the money goes to the football program. On the flip side, programs like North Carolina, Syracuse, Duke, Arizona, UConn (especially), etc. do well in basketball. There is only so much money in each university's athletic department and it tends to go towards which sport is bringing in the most revenue.
In the case of Ohio State and Florida, I can almost 100% guarantee that their football programs get more money than basketball.
Examples of other schools supporting other sports more:
Iowa - wrestling
Wichita State, Cal State Fullerton - baseball
Boston U, North Dakota - hockey
Now about those lady's soccer teams . . .
2007-01-04 09:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Kballs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things just work in cycles and sometimes it has to do with the coach at the time. For instance, Louisville used to be a huge basketball school, but now it is starting to become more football because of recent success even though the basketball team went to a final four 3 yrs ago, but the b-ball team is on a down year and football is on a up year so football will get more good recruits whereas basketball will not.
2007-01-04 09:09:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And a lot has to do with tradition. Good high school players want to play for a good college team, so if historically a team is good at football, but not basketball, they will draw good high school football players, but not basketball players.
2007-01-04 09:01:31 · answer #3 · answered by theearlybirdy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's the coaches and facilities mostly. usc has a great football team because carroll is as a good a recruiter as there is in football. tressell and meyer are also great recruiters, and there is also the football tradition at those schools. and ucla, duke and unc have had good teams for a long time, so kids grow up wnating to go there, and they recruit well and have great facilities. there's no real reason other than pure coincidence. you might as well ask why some schools have really great academics but no social life, and why some have a great social life but poor academics
2007-01-04 09:37:55 · answer #4 · answered by C_Millionaire 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most schools put the majority of their resources into one program rather than spread them out. They do this to improve their odds at having national success. Also, many of the elite schools have a history of tradition in one particular sport, and they prefer to capitalize on that in promotion and recruitment.
2007-01-04 09:14:09 · answer #5 · answered by JohnnyO 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really it depends on the bent of the athletic director...(by the way Florida used to be a football school until Billy Donavan took over as coach....)...and the tradition of the school...
2007-01-04 08:56:52 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
remember the name by fort minor among others that i cant remember
2016-03-14 01:38:50 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋