[Jaxbuck]

Originally Posted by jwinslow

I have no idea what you are laughing at I really don't. I would trade our one lone NCAA cham appearance for back to back titles in a heart beat.

simply incredible and unreasonable.

A competitor sets a new standard for success in any business and its unreasonable to try and match it? Thats unreasonable?

so then they're going to be doing it again, right? Otherwise Donovan just got their hopes up and failed to meet this supposed standard.

When you are the one who did it in the first place you buy some time until you have to do it again. Until you have the hardware you are playing catch up.

there's a huge difference between expectations and goals.

Why would a school with the resources availible to OSU set their goals any lower?

what exactly was uf doing wrong the last two years to have gone slumming? I don't see that changing next year either, at least if we can't appreciate anything less than uf's peerless standard from past seasons.

Again, they set the standard so they have bought time to go through the draughts. When you haven't won anything you don't get as much rope.

for one thing, I don't lose sight of the big picture. I don't forget how the 04 and 05 teams overachieved under his watch. I don't forget how he landed arguably the best recruiting class ever and developed three freshman starters... nor how they overcame tremendous challenges in the big dance, and only lost to a superior team.

I don't forget how rare it is to have premiere big men in this area nor that he landed all 3.

I realize that we don't have anywhere near a fair sample size to use yet. Last year all 4 premiere recruits were gone, but there were no 05, 04, or 03 classes to fill in the cracks. Those were the meager baby steps of a great recruiter building up from a troubled basketball program in a football world.

Thad has done a very good job but its a what have you done lately world and lately he's taken a step back 2 years in a row. Not a disaster or anything but certainly less than what anyone wants to see.

I sure as heck don't listen to the angry mob who thinks that nothing less than basketball greatness - at a football school - is worthy of angry rumblings if it doesn't change next year.

Matta sure spoiled us rotten

Again. Florida. You can be good in basketball at a football school. Thad didn't spoil anyone. A competitor simply showed what can be achieved and we aren't there yet. There is nothing wrong with trying to be the best.