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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5371917, member: 628"]
I think people miscategorize the “eras” from 2013 to today, and that causes a lot of the disagreements.

IMHO, our second golden era (first one being 1985-1991) was from 2009-2016.  Yes, 2015 wasn’t good, but the 2016 team underachieved in the regular season (largely the Hopkins 9 game portion) and clearly had final 4 talent.

Then we began to slip. 2017-2019 was when the decline clearly began. But we weren’t irrelevant.  A couple tourney appearances, a S16 run, and still being ranked during the season.

2020-2023 was the bottom falling out as we descended into mediocrity. Yes, we had the S16 run in 2021.  But we took some real thumpings that season and it was very clear we were nowhere near the quality of talent we had even 5 years prior.

2025 has been the bottom.

Point being, aside from one weekend in March of 2021, we really have been functionally irrelevant since the 2019 season ended.  There aren’t power conference programs coveting what we’ve been over the past 5 years.
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