I think it does. Gameplan and scouting wise for sure.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:27 pm i’d be curious, though, what everyone thinks about the familiarity aspect. does it make a difference?
but how much of that is Dixon being a decent coach (vs. familiarity more generally)?DeletedUser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:47 pmI think it does. Gameplan and scouting wise for sure.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:27 pm i’d be curious, though, what everyone thinks about the familiarity aspect. does it make a difference?
For example, it almost looked like TCU was baiting us into some bad passes by making it look like it was open and then jumping it because they knew what we were looking for and where we were looking to go.
I would agree if the new kid was coming from a similar conference like the big10 or ACC or SEC, but Houston is going to experience tougher road environments on a nightly/weekly basis than they have over this several year stretch of being really good.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:52 pm there’s part of me that thinks the new kid might be able to play looser without all the rivalry and back-stories…but maybe none of that matters all that much
i’ll be curious to see how it plays out. i’m not sure how comparable from a program standpoint, but that’s essentially the gonzaga argument…that they’d never get the seeding and love they do if they were playing in a “real” conferenceDeletedUser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:20 pmI would agree if the new kid was coming from a similar conference like the big10 or ACC or SEC, but Houston is going to experience tougher road environments on a nightly/weekly basis than they have over this several year stretch of being really good.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:52 pm there’s part of me that thinks the new kid might be able to play looser without all the rivalry and back-stories…but maybe none of that matters all that much
I think the Zags and Houston would both have still been as good over this stretch they have had, but they almost certainly would have lost more games playing tougher competition in a better conference.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:54 pmi’ll be curious to see how it plays out. i’m not sure how comparable from a program standpoint, but that’s essentially the gonzaga argument…that they’d never get the seeding and love they do if they were playing in a “real” conferenceDeletedUser wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 5:20 pmI would agree if the new kid was coming from a similar conference like the big10 or ACC or SEC, but Houston is going to experience tougher road environments on a nightly/weekly basis than they have over this several year stretch of being really good.KUTradition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 08, 2024 4:52 pm there’s part of me that thinks the new kid might be able to play looser without all the rivalry and back-stories…but maybe none of that matters all that much
It's actually 8. I assume you did like I did and forgot BYU.
i’ve done this a few times, not thinking straight about all the conference membership changes (i almost included ‘zona)
