Recruiting Football Talk VII

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SoilVol said:
Just it being a Pat Summitt brainchild and something the fought long and hard to make a brand. I also explained how we used to have a separate womens athletic department and AD. And to the outside that seems sexist but in reality it got a lot of women into careers of sports management where they likely wouldn't have gotten those opportunities in traditional departments, and put people in sole focus and charge of womens sports at the university instead of attention being split with or second fiddle to mens sports.

When you actually think about what's best for womens athletics at the college level, imo, its having a separate brand and leadership group.
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Very true.

AD Joan Cronan was very good.
 
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knoxvol52 said:
Plus UCONN still isn't considered a Blue Blood. Seems silly they aren't.
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Blueblood means you won championships while building the game up, old school powerhouse. Not new money.

Why Penn St and Nebraska and ND are blue bloods. Clemson and uga and miami ain't.


That said, time eventually can shift things. Minnesota and Yale are no longer considered bluebloods. Maybe in time history will deem them a BB.
 
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Devo182 said:
Blueblood means you built the game up. Not new money.

Why Penn St and Nebraska are blue bloods. Clemson and uga ain't.


That said, time eventually can shift things. Yale isn't a blueblood. Maybe in 50 years history will deem them a BB.
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Is Tennessee a blue blood in football? I hear mixed things. Top 10 in wins, bowl appearances, bowl victories, etc. I certainly think Neyland helped to build the game.

I got into an argument with a South Carolina fan about this; he insisted emphatically that Tennessee was not a blue blood. I asked what his criteria for blue blood were. The answer was "not Tennessee," so I didn't get very far.
 
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GoBigOrange86 said:
Is Tennessee a blue blood in football? I hear mixed things. Top 10 in wins, bowl appearances, bowl victories, etc. I certainly think Neyland helped to build the game.

I got into an argument with a South Carolina fan about this; he insisted emphatically that Tennessee was not a blue blood. I asked what his criteria for blue blood were. The answer was "not Tennessee," so I didn't get very far.
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Yes, we tend to fall into the "extended" category with Penn St. Polls show a majority say we and PSU are, but a sizable minority keep it limited to the standard 8 programs:

USC
Alabama
Nebraska
ND
OSU
Michigan
Texas
Oklahoma


No doubt age demographics plays a big part. We need to keep winning and bring home a title in the next decade or two to keep us in the discussion. Time eventually changes all context.

PSU, ND, Nebraska at risk as well of course.
 
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