@Hawk8086 I do. I like @nuleafjhawk's video link. If a coach appears calm, handles stressful situations like other situations, and projects confidence -- that impacts the team. Great story about Joe Montana I heard again the other day. In the Super Bowl against the Bengals (2nd time against them), SF was down, 2 minutes left. Montana comes to the huddle and points out John Candy in the stands to his teammates. Players in the huddle said that was exactly what they needed to relax.
@drgnslayr "smearing testosterone cream on their nuts"? I wouldn't try it, I hear they explode.
@Texas-Hawk-10 Well, we live on a different planet. You may value simply getting to the tournament. You may value high tourney seeds. And you may value regular season wins. That may get you all jazzed. Not me. UConn has won four national titles starting in 1999. Your "boom or bust" comment is illogical and near ignorance levels (not trying to be insulting, but did you even look at their tourney results?).
Including 1999, when they won their first title, through 2015, UConn has missed the tourney just four times. So they made the tourney 13 times in 17 season.
This shows the lunacy of our attachment to our little streaks. We are going blindly catapult our program history over others simply because we made the tourney four more times in 17 years? Sounds like something an MU fan might do -- we all get a trophy.
UConn, in those 13 appearances, has played 46 tourney games in the same time period that Kansas has played 55. So they didn't make the tourney four times, yet only played 9 less games than Kansas. Thus in those four seasons, we essentially averaged just a little better than getting to the second round.
Ask yourself this -- this is the crunch question. Since 1999, would you trade simply playing nine tourney games for three more national championships?
Since and including 1999, we have played two or less games in the NCAA tourney 7 times. That means we're eliminated the first weekend. Counting UConn four seasons not making the tourney, they had 8 seasons where they weren't playing past the first weekend (4 where they didn't make, and four where they did but were eliminated). What they heck is the difference?
The only real difference is that UConn was put out of its misery earlier. How much misery did we feel each year we were eliminated in the first weekend? Think about that.
Try UConn having 7 elite eights, just as many as KU has. So, again, UConn made four less tourneys, but has the same number of elite eights.
And think about how three -- count 'em three -- additional NCAA title rings would brighten your day, for the rest of your life? You know it, you'd be wearing a t-shirt boasting about it at least once a week. I would.
Instead, I have a "Ten there, done that" t-shirt in the bottom of my drawer (my wife bought me) that I will never wear. The statute of limitations has run on my 2008 tourney t-shirt.
Any argument attempting to promote KU's hoops record over UConn since and including 1999, or in the last 15 years, is diluting and cheapening the very basis of why Kansas plays the game.