re: Johnny Jones is not like Dale Brown

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I guess I'm just not sold that with Coach Jones, no matter how much talent, we really have no shot at a NC. You have to win 6 games for a title. At some point, you are going to have a close game. And that will probably be our Achilles Heel. We will be a 4-6 loss team maybe every year, but that title......

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Ok, we have to be somewhat realistic here. UCLA had a tremendous run under Wooden, but otherwise, you look at who wins titles and you see.. what? Kentucky has 8, Indiana and North Carolina have 5 apiece. UConn and Duke have 4. Louisville and Kansas each have 3. These are storied programs, elites.

There are some other programs you might think are "elite" and have great history... do you see them listed above? Nope. Remember UNLV under Tark the shark? Arkansas under Nolan Richardson and their 40 minutes of hell? Georgetown and Hoya Paranoia? Houston and Phi Slamma Jamma? Florida with Donovan, Syracuse under Boeheim? Michigan St?
These are all programs that have excelled at points, but have at most won 2, some have only 1 or none at all... in their entire history.

If we can approach that level, we will have upgraded our status by a huge margin.

In college basketball, you don't build for national championships, you try to make Final Four teams. If you get there enough, you have your shots.