I thought he was a few inches taller based on the bricks on wall but I think he's standing on a scale. Reports a few months ago said he was 7-7 though.
They so upgrade our conference. We need to raid the MW conference for Utah St. and Colorado St. to improve our football strength, too.
With our western division, they're fine for Tulsa, SMU, Wichita, Houston, even Tulane and Memphis. It also allows a rebalancing locationally (put Navy in the East!) as well a make the East more competitive! The norm now is a 14 school conference and their aren't any eastern schools with the name and quality to invite (App St, Troy, Ark St. about the best, and none with the academics, name recognition, or athletic traditions).
Uh, but football does, and we wouldn't be inviting Utah St. and Colorado St. for basketball only. Wichita wouldn't mind having Utah St. and CSU to play. With 14 teams covering 3 time zones and a four game conference champions, it would make sense for basketball to adopt single-game play for more distant schools. There's a reasonable chance for 16 team, national conferences in the last expansion of the P5, especially if the Big 12 collapses.
Conferences aren't national yet (even C-USA), but they will. It's the only way to be accessible in most markets and to play games in enough time zones, which enables the most number of hours of live broadcasting. That's the inevitable math of it since the P5 have gone to pay cable subscription channels.
Have no idea what this means but Wichita is not in a Western Division. They are in AAC.
And they don't in football?
Right. They need major rules changes to keep their top talent from going pro after a year or two. Only 2 upper classmen were drafted in the first round. College basketball is no longer a minor league for the NBA because the game is so different. It used to be that even young European talent would need to play in U.S. colleges to get used to the athleticism of U.S. players. Now, the college game ruins them as it does top American prospects.
