[Roberton3]

Life's too short, and tourney opportunities too scarce, to worry about potential future problems when we've got one of those rare chances to still be rooting for men's basketball in late March. 

They weren't rare before Dawkins got here. 

I arrived at Stanford in 1994, and between then and when Dawkins took over, the team made the tournament 13 out of 14 years, and advanced at least to the 2nd round in 11 of those years.  So what everyone is celebrating as a brobdingnagian success this year was the norm for the decade and a half before Dawkins arrived.

I hate to be so negative.  I'm really trying to relax and enjoy the tournament.  But I'm not finding it easy to do so.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying that I expect a tournament record like we had in the 1995-2008 tournaments.  I recognize that my arrival at Stanford coincided with an unusually successful period.  But making the tournament once in six years is clearly well below any reasonable standard.

[Roberton3]

Life's too short, and tourney opportunities too scarce, to worry about potential future problems when we've got one of those rare chances to still be rooting for men's basketball in late March. 

They weren't rare before Dawkins got here. 

I arrived at Stanford in 1994, and between then and when Dawkins took over, the team made the tournament 13 out of 14 years, and advanced at least to the 2nd round in 11 of those years.  So what everyone is celebrating as a brobdingnagian success this year was the norm for the decade and a half before Dawkins arrived.

I hate to be so negative.  I'm really trying to relax and enjoy the tournament.  But I'm not finding it easy to do so.

Edit: Just to clarify, I'm not saying that I expect a tournament record like we had in the 1995-2008 tournaments.  I recognize that my arrival at Stanford coincided with an unusually successful period.  But making the tournament once in six years is clearly well below any reasonable standard.