a load of nonsense. First, we are as much a threat to get to the final four as almost any team is in any given year. Who would you place in front of us? Duke, ok. MSU, ok. UNC, ok. Louisville, ok. Kentucky, ok. One could say UConn but will that last with no revenue coming in? And they have been to the same number of final fours as us. Throw Florida in and a couple of others. The reality is that we are right now a top ten program. To think that Hop will be a magic bullet is very risky. I know Hop. I like Hop. I want him to be the next coach. But to think boy I can't wait until Hop gets in and we will start going to final fours on a regular basis...hard to believe. Look, if AO hadn't got hurt and Fab had read a book, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
No they dont and since JB has been the face for a very long time it makes it hard to find seperation. I remember thinking the program was in huge trouble when Danforth left. Same when Ben left and Mac left and for many not me but many others when Doug left. The program is what matters. The program gets all ties. When that is breached you end up with a potential mess. See PState and others. JB realizes this.
When you get older, you will have a different view of this subject. And others as well.
You have the perspective of a much older sports fan. I can only hope some of your peers on this board and elsewhere eventually come around to understand that the sole measure of the success of a program, team, player or coach shouldn't be championships won. That can (and should) be the goal, but anyone who observes competitive sports over time can only conclude that even for the most talented, championships are not easy to come by and generally require the right alignment of the moon and stars.
TrueBlue, I have run the numbers, and unless you make major changes soon, I feel obligated to advise you that this is exceedingly unlikely.
Well, UConn maybe...
You/we had quite the influence for a number of years.
