From: kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado)
Subject: Re: UNC vs NCSU
Organization: Florida State University Department of Know-it-alls
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 23:48:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.195833.26115@mlb.semi.harris.com> dhead@comanche.ess.harris.com writes:
>In article 8950@mailer.cc.fsu.edu, kdelgado@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Kevin Delgado) writes:
>>In article <29499@oasys.dt.navy.mil> swilliam@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Steve Williams) writes:
>>>
>>> >UNC 100 NCSU 67.   To make matters worse, what you heard is correct.
>>> >As if NCSU didn't have enough problems this season, they now have
>>> >three players declared academically ineligible this season.  Looks
>>> >like they'll play the role of ACC doormat this season.  I forgot who
>>> >the players were, but included their #4 and #5 scorers.
>>>
>>>Is Les Robinson's job in jeporady?  I've noticed that he has done poorly
>>>in recruiting lately; I don't think he snatched a single top 150 player 
>>>(this is hard to believe).  If this is true, then it looks like NCSU
>>>is going to be the ACC doormat for some years to come.
>>>
>>>Can anyone please explain what is happening with the basketball program 
>>>at NCSU?
>>
>>Yeah, I know what's happening, the school has shifted its focus on getting
>>itself a good football team...and they have done a pretty damn good job of it
>>too (if it wasn't for FSU, NCSU would have been ACC champ this year...and 
>>would have gone to the Orange Bowl). Just look at Clemson, for years they have
>>focused on FB, and thier BB team has been a doormat as a result. It is _very_
>>difficult for a school to have both a top BB team AND a top FB team, as NCSU
>>is finding out. Of course, I could be totally wrong. It could be that they
>>just need to get themselves a new coach....where did that Valvano guy go?
>>
>>>
>
>So Kevin, how does Florida State maintain top 20 Football, Basketball, and
>Baseball teams if it is so difficult to maintain more than 1 top program?
>Seems to me there would be little relationship between programs (unless of
>course you have a 2 sport star like Charlie Ward!).  I guess it is a matter,
>for most schools, of having only so much money to spend and you have to 
>decide which program gets more resources.  But at FSU, there seems to be
>enough money for top programs in all 3 major sports.  Seems like I recall
>reading once that FSU's baseball program is one of the few college baseball
>programs in the country which is self-supporting because they get fairly good 
>fan support.

FSU's atheletic dept. is entirely financially INDEPENDENT of FSU. In fact, it
is not FSU that gives money to the atheletic dept., it has been the atheletic
dept. which has dished out money to keep the school running (sorta ironic).
But like I said, not EVERY school has such an opportunity to have several
top programs. FSU is very lucky, it happens to be in a state filled to the
brim with atheletic talent out of high-school. When the kids graduate, they
can come to FSU (or UF) and go to a school that is cheaper (in-state tuition),
and closer to home. FSU and UF have long been able to feed off of the home
talent especially in football and baseball (Miami takes its share too of
course). It has only been recently, with FSU joining the ACC and UF getting
Lon as head coach, that FSU and UF have been able to dip into the cream of
the Florida high-school basketball crop. 

>
>D. Head
>FSU '91
>
>

Kevin
FSU 'sometime before 2000 (I hope)

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