Read my response to @Hark_The_Sound_2010. You millennials always need numbers and shit. And I like numbers too. But I don't see them as the end-all, be-all. Sometimes you just know and you don't need empirical data to tell you.
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Read my response to @Hark_The_Sound_2010. You millennials always need numbers and shit. And I like numbers too. But I don't see them as the end-all, be-all. Sometimes you just know and you don't need empirical data to tell you.
Hey, don't jump on my shit. My poast on page 1 is the best poast in this thread, thank you very much.
I read your poast. I'm totally on board with your "gut feel" approach. It's why I don't consider UConn a blue blood. They just don't "feel" like one. But by that same token, Assembly Hall isn't enough to save Indiana's blue blood status (IMO). Blue blood status can be lost. Moo lost theirs. Indiana's quickly losing theirs if it isn't gone already.
Well, I'm also of the belief that once you have obtained blue blood status, you never relinquish it. It's a badge you keep until the end of days.
There are 6:
UCLA
UK
UNC
duke
Kansas
IU
There are 3 knocking on the door:
Nova
Louisville
UConn
It's a little unfair to evaluate a team's blue blood status solely on tournament success. It's a one and done tournament, so wins are never a foregone conclusion no matter who you are - just ask Virginia.
While Indiana hasn't been to the elite 8 since 2002, they have won conference championships in 2013 and 2016. They are still a blue blood in my opinion.
While Indiana hasn't been to the elite 8 since 2002, they have won conference championships in 2013 and 2016. They are still a blue blood in my opinion.
It was Ric Flair for Pete's sake. It's a fact that anything that has to do with Ric Flair is the best of whatever is being discussed. For example, if two guys are arguing over the 2nd amendment and one of them claims that Ric Flair told him that guns were ok, that person is automatically the winner of that debate. You can look all this up. It's in the Geneva Convention.
A few thoughts on this thread since I'm late to the party.
- 90s Bulls have the best sports intro. Nothing else is in the same stratosphere.
- The Rock Chalk Jayhawk chant is lame and annoying.
- IU lost their blue blood status over a decade ago. They're not relevant in the least bit.
- How in Christ's name is UConn knocking on the blue blood door when their team has been total trash since Calhoun left?
Apparently being a basketball blue blood also means sucking at football (Louisville's intermittent success notwithstanding).
Remember last week when you were wrong about something and refused to admit it and then @Raising Heel had to paddle your little behind? Let's not have another episode like that.
Oops, Kemba was in 2011. None of these poasts occurrred. Please go about your day.
I have destroyed the evidence. Nothing to see here. Nothing happened.
So, are we just letting it slide that THN gave State a title they don't have?
UConn is trash though - you got that much right.
I'm ok with still referring to Indiana as a blue blood but they are losing their grip on that title more than any of the other teams that I would consider a blue blood due to their lack of success (relative to other blue bloods) in my lifetime.
At this point, when I think Indiana, I basically just think of Dan Dakich acting like he played the greatest game of basketball ever played because Michael had an off night.
At this point, when I think Indiana, I basically just think of Dan Dakich acting like he played the greatest game of basketball ever played because Michael had an off night.
Indiana is 166-104 (61.5%) overall this decade and 75-69 (52.0%) in conference. Is that bad? That seems bad.
It ain't great.
For the record, I looked up State's records from 2011 to now, they are 159-114 (58.2%) overall and 64-76 (45.7%) in conference. So they are lower than Indiana but not by a ton.
3 percentage points and 7 percentage points is substantial.
I acknowledge that IU is a shell of their former selves. But like I said, I believe that once you are a blue blood, you're always one.
Yeah, it's not exactly apples to apples, just was using the wuffies as a comparison since we are all pretty much in agreement they aren't a blue blood. I'm in agreement with you that IU is still a blue blood in my book, but if they don't start having some sort of success in the next 5-10 years, then for me, they go from blue blood to "Well, they were good when Bobby Knight was there, but haven't done anything since"
Lol dammit. I always accidentally think of 73 as a title for them as well as 74. Poor Moo and their persecution by the NCAA
/s
Football is clearly different because of "claimed" national titles versus basketball's "earned" national titles. I have no desire to discuss blue bloods of football.
Ah so when the argument challenges your established narrative, you wanna bow out. Gotcha
Ah so when the argument challenges your established narrative, you wanna bow out. Gotcha
We're not debating football. So it would have been more appropriate for your snarky comment to have read, "Ahh, so when the discussion is completely changed to another topic, you wanna bow out. Gotcha." To that I would have said, "yes, that is correct."
I'm hoping this is what happens to dook when K leaves. Of course, we run the same risk post-Roy.
But we've proven several times now that we can have a championship caliber coach leave and we can get another one. duke hasn't proved the same and until they do, it's fair to be skeptical of their ability to stay relevant.
Agreed. Plus any College Football Blue-Blood list that doesn't have Notre Dame on it is fiction anyways.
As you would assume (if you took note of my statement saying the mystique/tradition element in ranking blue bloods is very important to me), Notre Dame is a top 3 all-time college football program for me.
I think it's neat the way you connected discussing the blue bloods of football with the blue bloods of basketball. I'd be happy to share my thoughts on the blue bloods of football.
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