Purp
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We should have goals to win conference titles, conference tournaments, and NCAA tournaments. Same pyramid as CGP. If those aren't our aspirations we're doing it wrong.Purp-
I don't disagree with a lot of your post but there are a couple of things I'm wondering about.
When you say- "We should expect championship level goals."
What exactly are you referring to? Texas Tech was in the final game. Is that the threshold?
You also used Texas Tech as an example of a program being successful without any tradition,
I would agree that they are not Kentucky, UNC, or Kansas, but they did have the all-time winningest collegiate coach in history (at that time) coach there.
Their AD during that time was also an extremely well respected basketball guy. Former President of the NABC, etc.
And I used Tech bc they're the most recent and obvious example. Bobby Knight wasn't able to do in his tenure what Beard has done there in a very short time. Bobby Knight didn't create tradition there either. He was just an example of the university making a commitment to winning with a splash hire.
I'd argue the Bobby Knight era in Lubbuttock was comparable to the best eras in TCU basketball. They had success, but nothing you'd consider noteworthy.
My whole point is that the people citing our lack of tradition and sustained success as reasons to not expect us to compete for the highest honors in the sport seem to be ignoring examples we should expect to follow. We've committed to the sport financially with those very expectations.