Breaking News: LSU to hire Stanford's Men's Basketball Coach

Waymer said

He's certainly got a chance to build a program and capitalize on recent years, but let's see how Florida (and similar schools like LSU in this case) apply their support and money. Those schools have yet to prove they will sacrifice their love of football, as you noted.

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Well and that's the core problem. There has a to be a "will" amongst both the fans and the administration to apply their "resources" to basketball (or baseball, or soccer, or any other sport outside of football).

Football is pretty unique in that you can't just throw money and a talented head coach at it and expect success to follow. The nature of football recruiting, the BCS structure, the size of the rosters and sheer scale of it, etc. It's a lot harder to "move up" in football.

Not the case with basketball (or most other sports). The core problem there is, generally, creating the necessary will to succeed. In particular, if you find a successful head coach are you willing to freeze football assistants salaries to keep your basketball coach from being poached by Kentucky for 2 million a year? Or put off those additional stadium luxury boxes so you can get a basketball IPF built?

It's the problem Ole Miss is facing with Andy Kennedy. Our basketball facilities are abysmal, but we've had to put it on freeze because we just couldn't tolerate the football situation anymore. Even though we had what we believed could be a very successful basketball coach, he still played second banana to forking over the cash for someone like Nutt. I fully expect Andy Kennedy to Tuberville use in the next year or two for someone like Kentucky.