bobinator said:
Tamu_mgm said:
Which is also why I think Bill Byrne was a severely underrated AD. Seems like we were good to elite in every sport except for football during his tenure.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but it's a lot easier to get good in sports that aren't football and men's basketball than it is in those two.
Well, maybe. But its never easy to win national championships or have those kinds of perennially great programs.
Maybe other schools could have convinced Pat Henry to leave LSU and completed the historic run our track program had, but they didn't. Bill Byrne and Texas A&M had the best run for any track program, ever. (No pun intended.)
As far as women's basketball, since 1995, only 7 different programs have won the national championship.
One of those 7 is Texas A&M under a coach hired by Bill Byrne at a school that had zero basketball history, women's or men's.