Does Gonzaga's success impact WSU?

[PeteTheChop]

Gonzaga's consistency in basketball is well documented with 18 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, including the national runner-up finish a few weeks ago.

The GU women's basketball program has been to the NCAA Tournament nine times since 2007, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2011.

The Bulldogs are also ranked in the Top 20 nationally this week by Collegiate Baseball.

Does this widespread success — barely an hour away fron Pullman — help or hinder the WSU in any way?

What what it take for WSU to flip the script and eclipse Gonzaga in these three sports, particularly men's basketball?

If Bill Moos plays his cards right (like he clearly did with the CML hire and the first-class renovation of Martin Stadium), how soon could it happen?

 

[YakiCoug]

It'll happen when WSU decides to play in a weenie conference and begins routinely pilfering players from other programs.

 

[Observer11]

Gonzaga's consistency in basketball is well documented with 18 straight trips to the NCAA Tournament, including the national runner-up finish a few weeks ago.

The GU women's basketball program has been to the NCAA Tournament nine times since 2007, including a trip to the Elite Eight in 2011.

The Bulldogs are also ranked in the Top 20 nationally this week by Collegiate Baseball.

Does this widespread success — barely an hour away fron Pullman — help or hinder the WSU in any way?

What what it take for WSU to flip the script and eclipse Gonzaga in these three sports, particularly men's basketball?

If Bill Moos plays his cards right (like he clearly did with the CML hire and the first-class renovation of Martin Stadium), how soon could it happen?

The twelfth of never.

Bill Moos will never allocate the resources needed to compete with Gonzaga in basketball. They will go to football first, football second and then maybe football third. Moos has no more debt financing to play with basketball.

It's a pipe dream to think he is in a position to do anything about the basketball program before he retires. He pushed all his chips in on a rising tide lifting all boats based on unrealized revenue projections. Based on recent events at ESPN, the days of unfathomable broadcast rights fees will come to an end, probably sooner rather than later. WSU will service its debt on the football stadium/ops building. And whatever is left over will get doled out to the remaining sports.