Juice
11-18-2008, 09:18 PM
I found this interesting/stupid article that compares college basketball teams to countries, here are some of teams:
Xavier (Saudi Arabia)
This group’s an alternately rich-and-poor country which has stumbled upon some outstanding natural resources (great recruiting classes) and propelled itself into the upper-echelon of new-world wealth, despite still not having much pedigree or political stability (four coaches in the past 15 years).
Dayton (Ukraine)
Temple (Iran)
Located in the original heart of the world (Philadelphia birthed the Declaration of Independence, and the Big Five were the original holy land of college basketball), this is one emerging nation that if it ever got right and started stockpiling weapons (or recruits) could scare every other nation in it’s path.
Louisville (Czech Republic) / Cincinnati (Slovakia)
Achingly close in proximity, these are two traditionally solid nations, one of which had a downtime after the fall of Denny “The Iron Curtain” Crum, the other near the end of the Bob Huggins era, they then quickly joined NATO (The Big East) and became very relevant again. One of these nations has fared marginally better than the other in recent years.
http://theloveofsports.com/index.php/site/comments/the_united_nations_of_college_basketball/
Xavier (Saudi Arabia)
This group’s an alternately rich-and-poor country which has stumbled upon some outstanding natural resources (great recruiting classes) and propelled itself into the upper-echelon of new-world wealth, despite still not having much pedigree or political stability (four coaches in the past 15 years).
Dayton (Ukraine)
Temple (Iran)
Located in the original heart of the world (Philadelphia birthed the Declaration of Independence, and the Big Five were the original holy land of college basketball), this is one emerging nation that if it ever got right and started stockpiling weapons (or recruits) could scare every other nation in it’s path.
Louisville (Czech Republic) / Cincinnati (Slovakia)
Achingly close in proximity, these are two traditionally solid nations, one of which had a downtime after the fall of Denny “The Iron Curtain” Crum, the other near the end of the Bob Huggins era, they then quickly joined NATO (The Big East) and became very relevant again. One of these nations has fared marginally better than the other in recent years.
http://theloveofsports.com/index.php/site/comments/the_united_nations_of_college_basketball/