Just to put some "reality" back into this conversation. UT's bb team has beaten ONE SEC team in the upper half of the conference. The OOC wins that inflate their record even more are against the likes of UNCA and The Citadel. UT's SOS is 33rd nationally... and not even close to that the football team faced in either of the last two years.
A "good" middling or even worse bb team in a BCS conference should have a winning record. I am glad that Martin is doing well. I am even more glad that the usual negative "fans" are buffaloed into believing it is better than it actually is... but again there is NO correlation between the two situations.
Want to make that comparison? Find another BCS football program that suffered three consecutive busted recruiting classes that played in the most dominant conference depending mostly on underclassmen while playing the most difficult schedule in the country that impresses you. Use them instead.
A "good" middling or even worse bb team in a BCS conference should have a winning record. I am glad that Martin is doing well. I am even more glad that the usual negative "fans" are buffaloed into believing it is better than it actually is... but again there is NO correlation between the two situations.
Want to make that comparison? Find another BCS football program that suffered three consecutive busted recruiting classes that played in the most dominant conference depending mostly on underclassmen while playing the most difficult schedule in the country that impresses you. Use them instead.