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[QUOTE="pfister1, post: 2024241, member: 285"]
I have a feeling that JB is also simply using this argument as an opportunity to spar with Bud.    I'm not sure he 100% believes what he is arguing.

At different points in his career he's been branded an underachiever because we've had a great regular season, but fallen woefully short of expectations in the post season.     The logical extension of that argument is that the regular season doesn't really matter, its only the post season.

Last season we had pretty much the opposite result.   A pretty mediocre regular season followed by a great run in the NCAAT.    Pretty much what people had previously seemed to be saying mattered when we had fallen short in the past.    However, despite the result it still isn't sufficient, people argue the team got lucky and the program is in decline.

My guess is that if you asked JB he would say that the post season result is very important in evaluating the ultimate success of any particular season, but he wouldn't want last season to be the model we shoot for every year.    He wants to win too badly to endure 14 losses every season.   Now if we had added wins against UNC and Nova, maybe he would take that (endure 13 losses, but win the NC) every year.
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