catmandoo
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posted 07-15-2014 10:58 PM
It sure doesn't help us playing in the SEC.
1. Indiana Hoosiers
There's little doubt that Indiana is a basketball school. Football is merely a way for Hoosier fans to pass the time by before hoops season begins. Indiana's football program has won just 41.9% of its games and has only been to one bowl game since 1994. The Hoosiers are a perennial doormat in the Big-10, and fan interest is never high. Coaches come and go at Indiana, and none of them have had any success since the mid-1990's.
2. Duke Blue Devils
Give David Cutcliffe credit for leading Duke to a 10-win season in 2013 and a bowl game in 2012. What he's done there is nothing short of amazing. Prior to his arrival, Duke hadn't won more than 5 games in a season since 1994. 2013 was also the first year the Duke football program won more than 8 games since 1941, and the first double-digit win season in school history.
3. Kansas Jayhawks
Kansas is a basketball school, just like Duke and Indiana. Football season is usually the few months where Kansas fans get ready for the upcoming hoops season, while maybe taking in a football game or two. Kansas football is terrible and not many fans seem to care. Kansas won 12 games - including an Orange Bowl - in 2007 and 8 games in 2008. Since then? 14 wins...total.
4. Iowa State Cyclones
Iowa State, according to Cyclone fans is a basketball school. However, they're only a basketball school because the football program is lousy, not because the basketball program is a national power. Give Cyclone fans credit, they are loyal. But they've never experienced any type of winning in football on a national level. ISU has never surpassed 9 wins in a season and hasn't won a conference title since the glory days of 1912.
5. Washington State Cougars
The past decade for Washington State has been brutal. From 2001-2003, the Cougars won 30 games (10 each year). In the 10 years that followed, they won a total of 38 games. Mike Leach is attempting to turn this program around, but it's going to be tough in the Pac-12 conference.
6. Kentucky Wildcats
The state of Kentucky is a basketball hotbed, and a football dump. Kentucky fans barely even care that their football program has been in the dumps for years. Wildcat football is an after thought. The Wildcats had moderate success from 2006-2009, but this program hasn't won 10 games in a season since 1977. Mark Stoops has done a great job on the recruiting trail the past year, but he has his work cut out for him in the brutal SEC.
7. Vanderbilt Commodores
The rest of the SEC is good at football. Vanderbilt is good at being smart. Vanderbilt is a fine academic institution, placed in the SEC conference to improve the league's academic reputation (a la Northwestern). Vanderbilt's football program enters 2014 with a dead even all-time record (582-582).
8. Maryland Terrapins
Since 2001, Maryland has been a respectable team in most years. In fact, they won 10+ games each year from 2001-2003. Since then, they have 2 9-win seasons, but also a pair of 10-loss seasons. Maryland's move to the Big-10 conference shouldn't change much for this mediocre program. They're a .500 football program with the ability to occasionally contend for a conference title.
9. Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Historically, Wake Forest is the worst major college program of all-time based on winning percentage. Or, in Wake Forest's case...losing percentage. However, the Demon Deacons have, somehow, managed to put together a few solid seasons since 2006. But they haven't been to a bowl game since 2011.
10. Illinois Fighting Illini
The Illinois football program has been up and down throughout the years...mostly down. The Fighting Illini made 2 BCS bowls in he 2000's, but haven't had any success in other years since the 1980's. Illinois is the type of program that will, once every decade, pop up and compete for a conference title. But they're typically mediocre the following seasons.
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