Comments on: This Year’s Team & Our Top Ten Basketball Tradition

By: Yes, Indeed…We are the 7th Best BBall Program of All Time « Hell in the Hall - Louisville Sports Blog

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:26:30 +0000

[...] Street & Smith and a few other publications over the years have concurred that U of L is the 7th best program in college basketball history. http://hellinthehall.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/a-reminder-of-our-top-ten-basketball-tradition/ [...]

By: frankpos

frankpos — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:25:15 +0000

That’s an excellent point–when we had All-Americans, we have generally done well.

It does boil down at the highest levels to talent. At their peak, a Denny or RickyP can carry a team pretty far–but the team has win it.

I think Rick now has the Rule in place that will allow him to stockpile talent. That’s a helluva class we have coming in, and it looks like Ricky Jr. is reaching down to the sixth grade now.

So…I’m highly optimistic we’ll have the horses to really start enjoying the Pitino era to the fullest.

It hasn’t been bad so far…

By: kylures

kylures — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:36:57 +0000

Basketball was a nice change from football, overperforming from our early expectations. But can we ever lose the desire to get to a true National presence like we experienced in the 80′s? 7th makes you feel pretty good, but not great. What your charts show is that you cannot really achieve greatness without an All American. You must have that go-to guy. And you must have a solid cast of selfless supporting overachievers, which we largely had. Francisco was the last one, maybe Earl will be the next one. Maybe when the Arena is in full swing, some magical year, we will experience that feeling we long for, not just fondness for the Cards and the way it was, but elation in the present moment of athletic achievement.