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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5024827, member: 1969"] I feel like you are taking my comments totally out of context. I never claimed many of the things you are implying I did. Self admittedly sometimes I can ramble and things become unclear , but I can tell you for sure, my whole point was not to cherry pick a bad period to put down the great overall run of UConn. I never claimed that the overall stretch was not great or to be admired, or that this entire run was based on luck. In fact I never even addressed one single thing prior to 2011. which makes sense since why in this quickly changing college basketball world would we want to follow a "model" of 12 to 30 years ago - of any program!. They have been a great and outstanding program overall since 1990 with results. They have had great teams in 2023-2024, and a number of great teams from as early 1990-2011. Heck those teams from 1990-2011 could have won more than 2 national titles. But given how basketball has changed so much I don't think we should "follow" how teams were built 15 to 30 years ago. Not only for UConn, but Syracuse or anybody. [B]There were 2 specific reasons I brought up the very modest period from 2012-2021.[/B] (none of which was downgrading there run since 1990) [B]1) As a means to praise Danny Hurley to support the OP's claim , that this is team is no longer in their lucky phase. They are now without a doubt a dominant team like some of the teams they had before (1999, 2002, 2006). [/B] That modest period of 2012-2021 didn't have any great teams, and they needed breaks to win that 2014 title. Hurley didn't inherit anything special - he inherited a team that had been middling for about 7 years, and would for a few more, despite the title. He has developed this program from a modest situation and developed the most dominant UConn teams since arguably 2006. [B]There is plenty of stuff we could try to learn from how Danny Hurley has turned UConn around. We should absolutely figure out what the hell they are doing right now, to change things around, and acknowledge they are great right now. 2) It was also in regard to the specific comment I was replying to, that said we should look at UConn's history as something to follow. [/B]And really what I was getting at, was other than the Hurley era, there is not much to follow.[B] [/B] As I said above there is not much you can learn form anybody pre 2010 - college basketball has changed too much. But there is also not much we can productively learn from UConn's 2012-2020 era either even with the National Title. We can't aspire to be a team to be a 7,7.9 seed. Since then, or if you want to start with the date Danny Hurley was hired (2018) then there is lots to try to follow. That is what we aspire to. [/QUOTE]

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