Re: U of A!
Posted by briguy119 on 01-10-2008 in Arizona State University vs. University of ArizonaI definately agree with your point that U of A has a better basketball program, but I'm not sure how much longer you can claim that title. The days of Lute Olsen seem to be numbered, meanwhile Herb Sendek is beginning to build something special in Tempe. He is an excellent recruiter, how else would you get a McDonald's All-American following an 8-22 season. ASU's basketball fan base has been sitting at home waiting for the return to the top 25 for quite sometime and as we saw tonight that fan base was in full force tonight as James Harden absolutely carried the Devils to victory. Once again, I'm not going to contest the prestige of Tucson's hoops program, but Lute is on his way out and Herb is on his way up.
In response to: U of A!
Sorry Fariz, but U of A beats ASU in athletics (you may have better football, but we have better basketball... and honestly, whats a better sport, football or basketball?) and in academics (the amount of national merit scholars by no means is an even reasonable measure of the quality of the academics at an institute [furthermore, ASU has more national merits simply because it gives them more money]... U of A has more research money than ASU and is ranked higher by US News than ASU). So the only thing that ASU actually has is the fun-factor (you do have tempe vs. our tucson... ha), but we still win 2-1 :)