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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2023917, member: 289"] I've said before that I feel there are several things that make a season special here: A conference regular season or tournament championship, a #1 ranking, 30 wins, a trip to the Final Four. A national championship is an historical season. I described this standard to JB on his show and he essentially agreed. His point on that occasion was that it's the Final Four that people really remember. His point today was that a mediocre regular season, (by our standards) doesn't detract from a Final Four run. I would add that a disappointing post season doesn't negate a great regular season or a conference tourney title. The good things define a season and the bad things do not erase them . Bud's other problem was that he was looking at the last four seasons as if they were one event- an event that began after the 25-0 start in 2014. In modern college basketball, each team is a different team. You lose your seniors. You lose another player or to to the NBA or transfers. You create your new team out of your remaining pieces, the guys you recruit and now whoever you can pick up from the pool of grad transfers, (or other transfers you can get, including JUCOs). the 2014 team was a different team than the 2015 team. The 2015 team is different from the 2016 team which is different from the 2017 team and next year's team will be a different team as well. the difficulties we encounter in one season are not an extension of the difficulties of the previous season. I would add that, while I have been occasionally guilty of disparaging other poster's work, (see the "Am I Awake?" post from yesterday), it's not a good idea to start calling people names. It adds nothing to the debate and only makes you look worse than the person you are trying to make look bad. if someone is wrong about something they have given you an easy way to effectively respond: just point it out. That keeps the focus on them. When you start calling them names, you only put the attention on yourself. [/QUOTE]

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