Tulsa Brave
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As a relative newcomer to BU Basketball, I genuinely believe we have seen the glory years since about the '50s. We had a great regular season one year with a team built by a coach who was fired because he cheated, and 'we were who they thought we were' when we were quickly bounced in the tourney. At least JL led us to do something people said we weren't capable of and got a couple of solid victories. I'm not saying JL was a model on continued greatness, but pretending that BU has been and should be a top basketball school and has tons of history is like saying Harvard should be destination for football coaches.
Complacency is not a good thing, but neither are delusions of grandeur. BU is an average mid-major program with a good fan-base. Nothing more nothing less.
I'm assuming you were talking about the '86 season in regards to being "quickly bounced in the tourney"???? Let me enlighten you a bit on that. We were given a ridiculous #7 seed, which meant a potential 2nd round matchup with #2 seed Louisville, who was regarded as the hottest team in the country at that point in the season, and many people's favorite to win it all. We destroyed UTEP by 20 in the 1st round, then played toe to toe with Louisville for over 33 minutes...the game was tied with about 6:45 left. We then ran out of gas, and Louisville moved on, and eventually did indeed win the National Championship. I'll take that kind of getting "quickly bounced in the tourney" anytime!