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[quote author=76lsjumb link=topic=9713.msg86011#msg86011 date=1395468261]
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.
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I started going to Stanford basketball games around 1960, so it was about 29 years before I saw my first tourney game.  I actually went to Charlotte to see us lose that game.  Indeed, as I recall, Mont.y lost in the first round a couple of times before things got going smoothly and we stopped being one-and-done.  I also recall a fair amount of grumbling about those one-and-done years and a fair number of people suggesting that Stanford might be better off with someone other than Mont.y.  Sure glad that didn't happen...

At least Dawkins got a victory in his first attempt, even if that first attempt should have happened a year or two earlier.

I would LOVE to get back to the amazing days of 1995-2008, but I just think that -- at least while we're actually still playing in the tournament -- it's better to celebrate what's happening right now that than carp about next year...

[76lsjumb]

[quote author=76lsjumb link=topic=9713.msg86011#msg86011 date=1395468261]
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.
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I started going to Stanford basketball games around 1960, so it was about 29 years before I saw my first tourney game.  I actually went to Charlotte to see us lose that game.  Indeed, as I recall, Mont.y lost in the first round a couple of times before things got going smoothly and we stopped being one-and-done.  I also recall a fair amount of grumbling about those one-and-done years and a fair number of people suggesting that Stanford might be better off with someone other than Mont.y.  Sure glad that didn't happen...

At least Dawkins got a victory in his first attempt, even if that first attempt should have happened a year or two earlier.

I would LOVE to get back to the amazing days of 1995-2008, but I just think that -- at least while we're actually still playing in the tournament -- it's better to celebrate what's happening right now that than carp about next year...