But, despite the fact that I think the team will improve and can win a couple a couple games in the tourney if they get in, I also get the fanbase frustration.
It has been 7 years, and will likely be 8, since we were a protected seed. Prior to this stretch, the longest stretch was 4 years...departure of Louie and Bouie until Pearl, and departure of Wallace and Z until senior years of Hart, Thomas and Blackwell. And in those two four-year stretches, we were art last a 5 and a 6. The highest seed we've been in the last 7 years is a 9.
The program has simply not been at the same level, over the last seven years, as it was over the prior 38.
And although there were certainly extenuating circumstances for the dry spell, those are now over and the expectation is that we get back to what we used to be.
And, right now, it just doesn't look like we are close.