robinreed wrote:The number of the top 100 (ESPN) basketball players who have signed with the football playing DIV 1 schools is 90
There are 4 players who have not decided yet or at least have not signed.
The non-football playing schools signed 6 of the top 100 players to basketball scholarships.
The Big East, after a very good year and 6 NCAA tourney bids signed 5 of the 6 players who will attend non-football DIV 1 schools. The remaining player will attend Wichita State. Non-football schools such as Dayton, VCU, St. Louis, Gonzaga etc. have none of the top 100.
For those interested in expansion this puts a new light on expansion with non-football schools only. They simply can not draw the interest from high school players as the football schools obviously are able to do. We in the Big East can and will defy this trend and our current membership will probably not be harmed if we can pull in 5 or more of the top 100 each and every year. However the A-10, Horizon, West Coast, MVC and other leagues are harmed by this trend. I also expect the FCOA may provide a greater benefit to the football playing schools as well.
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I did some cocktail napkin math on the 2015 class for added perspective. Of the 100, 22 went to schools that are considered the top tier in college bb: Duke, Ky, NC, Kansas, Arizona, Mich St, Syr and Lousiville. That's an average of about 3 top 100 players per school. That part of the equation has nothing to do with football. There are maybe about 20 other schools who can recruit on that level, but not consistently, and I'd put Nova, GT and Marquette in that category.
The problem, if there is one for the BE, is that we do not have a top-tier program capable of national championships and consistent top 10 recruiting. When that happens, and it will, the league will get respect nationally.
I did not wade through 10 pages of Stever to see if anyone else has posted anything similar to this.