I said years ago that I wished some of the “traditional basketball schools” could form a conference. It would make basketball season awesome, and in football, the conference would be extremely competitive pretty much from top to bottom. And we would have a chance to actually WIN the league most years in football (basketball too, obviously).
Take 10 teams…play everybody in football, leaving 3 OOC games…play everybody twice in basketball (18 conference games). So here’s my ten teams:
1-4…UK, Kansas, UNC, Duke…those four are non-negotiable.
5 and 6…Louisville and Indiana…both schools with historically better basketball than football programs, and both traditional rivals for UK.
7-10…this is where it gets harder to choose. But my picks would be Purdue (fairly close at 250 miles from Lexington), Vandy (traditional rival and close for south and western Ky fans), Michigan St (good basketball tradition for the last 25 years) and Illinois (pretty high in all-time basketball win percentage).
Near misses: Syracuse (too far north), UConn (football program is not quite competitive enough), UCLA (too far west)
Now, as I said in the thread title, this is (unfortunately) a hypothetical, a pipe dream, but MAN I think it’d be a fun schedule every year!
Would this be your ten teams? Should we go with 12? Just interested to see what my fellow fans think
Take 10 teams…play everybody in football, leaving 3 OOC games…play everybody twice in basketball (18 conference games). So here’s my ten teams:
1-4…UK, Kansas, UNC, Duke…those four are non-negotiable.
5 and 6…Louisville and Indiana…both schools with historically better basketball than football programs, and both traditional rivals for UK.
7-10…this is where it gets harder to choose. But my picks would be Purdue (fairly close at 250 miles from Lexington), Vandy (traditional rival and close for south and western Ky fans), Michigan St (good basketball tradition for the last 25 years) and Illinois (pretty high in all-time basketball win percentage).
Near misses: Syracuse (too far north), UConn (football program is not quite competitive enough), UCLA (too far west)
Now, as I said in the thread title, this is (unfortunately) a hypothetical, a pipe dream, but MAN I think it’d be a fun schedule every year!
Would this be your ten teams? Should we go with 12? Just interested to see what my fellow fans think
