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as good as our football program now is, our basketball program has a long ways to go before it is on the same level.

Funny how times change. 

At the end of 1998, a "younger money" would have observed that, as good as our basketball program now is [having missed out on a National Championship game by only an overtime loss to Kentucky earlier that year] our football program has a long ways to go before it is on the same level [having just completed a rather dismal 3-8 season that included a 6-game losing streak (although we did win Big Game)].

The following football season [1999], of course, ended with our last trip to the Rose Bowl, while following the basketball season [1998-99] ended with a Pac-10 conference championship and at least a return trip to the Big Dance [although ending prematurely, as a few others did, in Seattle].

[76lsjumb]

as good as our football program now is, our basketball program has a long ways to go before it is on the same level.

Funny how times change. 

At the end of 1998, a "younger money" would have observed that, as good as our basketball program now is [having missed out on a National Championship game by only an overtime loss to Kentucky earlier that year] our football program has a long ways to go before it is on the same level [having just completed a rather dismal 3-8 season that included a 6-game losing streak (although we did win Big Game)].

The following football season [1999], of course, ended with our last trip to the Rose Bowl, while following the basketball season [1998-99] ended with a Pac-10 conference championship and at least a return trip to the Big Dance [although ending prematurely, as a few others did, in Seattle].