Is it me, or does the school show much more love for b-ball

[MidlandsPaladin]

It's great...to be...a Furman Paladin!

[JohnKX512]

I totally forgot about 1927. Only loss was UGA.

Wins over... Duke, NC State, Mercer, Erskine, Oglethorpe, Wake Forest, U of South Carolina, Shitadel, Clempson, and Miami (FL). The closest game that year was... The Citadel.

[gofurman]

March Madness versus FCS playoff publicity is not even a comparison.

I think you answered your own question here.

A lot of you are probably like me and care more about football than you do about basketball, so we're going to have to accept the fact that Furman wants to be a basketball school. AD Jason Donnelly has all but said that exact statement. At first, this made me bristle, but at this point, I'm 100% on board. I want Furman to be excellent at things, and basketball is fine thing at which to be excellent. Plus, our football team is still really, really good and we're looking at a really special season coming up soon. I don't think becoming a "basketball school" means we automatically have to sacrifice quality football. In fact, it's possible that raising the status of one of our other revenue sports lifts the status of the others along with it.

let's be Villanova. I have no problem with winning a basketball AND football national title. Basketball the 'big' one and Football FCS -GoFurman

[Davemeister]

When a University brands itself a "Basketball School", it means they don't play football at all or don't play it very well. That lets us out.

[FU Hoopla]

This such a jealous and distasteful topic, ridiculous that it has been one of the more active football topics over the past month, why it has not been locked or moved to general idiocy is beyond me................

I've always been a fan of both, but I never compared the two in an effort to complain when basketball was being ignored and given only minimum resources to succeed for nearly 30 years while football was at the front door by comparison.
Seriously hoops get's its first big time run of success and publicity in forever and you want to cry about it? lol

So with all due respect to the original poster, STFU

[FurmanFan23]

I think we all as FURMAN fans should celebrate when all of our teams do well. I don’t understand the res sentiment towards one program doing better than another. Why can’t we all just enjoy our sports teams both doing well!!!

[paladinfan12]

Lots of schools do many sports well. Some don't have the resources to be good at multiple sports and focus on one sport.

If anything - we're a cross country school, but I'm glad Furman can find ways to be successful at several sports.

[Yadkin]

This such a jealous and distasteful topic, ridiculous that it has been one of the more active football topics over the past month, why it has not been locked or moved to general idiocy is beyond me................

I've always been a fan of both, but I never compared the two in an effort to complain when basketball was being ignored and given only minimum resources to succeed for nearly 30 years while football was at the front door by comparison.
Seriously hoops get's its first big time run of success and publicity in forever and you want to cry about it? lol

So with all due respect to the original poster, STFU

I agree this is a distasteful topic and makes many among us wonder why Furman success, in whatever form it takes, can't be celebrated. I truly believe it is by the vast majority of folks who love FU and Paladin Athletics. Basketball's 40+ years in the wilderness was finally rewarded, and our university is the better for it. I hope is continues.

That said, before we start telling folks to "STFU," some nuggets from history are in order. On several occasions over the years, on this board in particular, a few notable FU hoops folks fronted the jealous argument that Paladin Basketball couldn't win because football was more favored, basketball ignored (repeated above yet again), and the pie wasn't big enough for both. Pure horsehockey. Basketball's futility from 1981-2017 can assigned in large measure to bad/incompetent coaching, plain and simple. Jene Davis, Joe Cantafio, Larry Davis, and Jeff Jackson were insufferably bad hires, and two of the hires (Larry Davis and Jeff Jackson) were made by basketball loving ADs. Butch Estes almost looks John Wooden-esque compared to the others, with Larry Davis a distant second in the group (which says a lot).

Nobody who knows anything about FU Athletics will ever assert that basketball had its challenges, even beyond coaches, but that wasn't due to Furman football. Giant, needed strides have been made over the last seven years on all fronts in support of the hoops program, but the cornerstone of it all was the hiring of Niko Medved, followed by Bob Richey, plain and simple.

So yes, I'll join the chorus that says we should "knock off the finger pointing," and that goes for the originators of the distasteful practice.

Go Paladins.