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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2876253, member: 1452"]
Really hate to say it but I am not a millenial.  I am older than you are.

My big picture take is that we are fine.

We've had some not so great stretches (at least for my standards)

Post Louie & Bouie until Pearl
Post sanctions 1 - at least relative to what we were used to from 85-91 in terms of regular season success - until 96 and the arrival of Hart, Thomas and, eventually, Blackwell.
Post Etan, Hart & Blackwell until Melo
Post Hak until Flynn et al.
Post sanctions Redux

We win consistently, are in the mix for the tourney every year and, periodically, have a really special season.

That makes us better than 98% of the schools out there.  The only ones whose success we cannot compete with on a year-in, year-out basis are Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas.  Edit:  I will add Michigan State also.  Maybe Louisville and Arizona.  Maybe.  That is 7 schools out of 351.  You want to add a few more?  Ok.  97 or 96%.

I'm ok with that.

If you are not, then that is your prerogative but you are going to be consistently miserable because we have NEVER been in the same league as those schools for extended periods of time...85-91 and 08-14 our our two best stretches...

I am much more worried about who replaces JB then I am about JB...
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