--A&M basketball has been in the NCAA tournament 17% (13 out of 78) of the time in its history with 7 of those appearances coming in the last 10 years or so.Tribe2013 said:RThorp said:
Y'all have high standards for acceptable results! NCAA tournament once every 3 or 4 years should be the expectation. We're never going to be Kentucky.
It's not hard to make the tournament. This is a terribly low bar. Like low-major expectation level bad
For some schools no it isn't hard, but for some reason it's hard for A&M to make the NCAAT.
I think you may have us confused with Kentucky (56 out of 78), Arkansas (30 out of 78~~3 out of 8), Missouri (26 out of 78~~1 out of 3) , Florida (19 out of 78~~1 out of 4), Alabama (20 out of 78~~1 out of 4), LSU (21 out of 78~~1 out of 4) or Tennessee (20 out of 78 ~~1 out of 4) when it comes to NCAAT expectations.
Then there are these teams: Ole Miss (8 out of 78), Miss St (10 out of 78), Georgia (12 out of 78), Vandy (14 out of 78), Auburn (8 out of 78), South Carolina (8 out of 78)
Where do you think we fall?
Before we can compete with Kentucky-like expectations, we must achieve Tennessee, LSU, Alabama, or Florida expectations first.
For most non-basketball first schools, the most we can expect to achieve is reaching the tournament 1 out of every 4 years.
That's not to say that I'm okay with that, but it takes more than coaching and recruiting in order to achieve anything more.