FInal Four = Successful Season?

[dinno28]

if we get to the final 4 this year with everything that has gone on I feel JB should be coach of the year ... win thrusday and the season is a success ... lose Thursday and it feels like 2010 all over again ... a season filled with promise only to go down with our center

 

[Garbs]

the season is already a success, but our tournament is not

 

[br801]

thursday is a really really really big game for this program, until we get over that sweet 16 hump nobody is gonna take us seriously come march, which is why so many "experts" and fans continually pick us to get upset.

Really hope I live to see the day that this program is taken seriously. I've got my fingers crossed and am just hoping for the best.

 

[Milo1384]

even if they don't make it to the final four - its already been a successful, historic season, imo ...

 

[MyMeloMyMan]

If the Red Sox have the best regular season but lose in the divisional playoffs...is it a successful season?

 

[Garbs]

If the Red Sox have the best regular season but lose in the divisional playoffs...is it a successful season?

yes, but if it were the yankees then no

 

[SU2NASA]

Championship or bust.

 

[kuethstheman]

Already a successful season but a loss in the Sweet 16 would be a major disappointment and a missed opportunity to remove the monkey.

I'd be satisfied with an Elite 8. Once you get that far it's a crap-shoot unless you're a dominating team or unless you draw a cinderella whose time has come.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Considering everything that has gone on and how well the team has played and not played, what is now the expectation for the team? Would a final four appearance be deemed a successful season or is it NC or bust? Are there others out there that could consider an Elite 8 "satisfactory"? I for one still think this team has a high ceiling if they play well. A NC is attainable. I would call a Final Four appearance a very successful season however.

Absolutely. I prefer a championship, but to make a Final Four would be great. That's something that broadcasters (and fans) certainly remember. We older fans still recall 1975, and hold that as a cherished memory. Of course, we were still a "mid major" regional program back then.