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jontaejones
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To win it all, not to reach the Final 4. Do you feel your team can legitimately win it all?
The reason I believe people generally say teams like St. Louis, Wichita State and Virginia, and even more established programs like Wisconsin and Villanova may be able to reach the Final 4, but cannot win it all is because they don't have the pure talent, although they might be excellent teams.
Every single team that has won the title has had a McD AA on the team since 1979 except Maryland.
So, if your team is recruiting at a certain level, do you accept that you 'currently' have no chance to win it all? What level is that?
Saint Louis has a senior class of unranked players that has played together for 4 years. Obviously won't be good enough.
Let's take Wisconsin. Wisconsin has a team of contributors of mainly three stars players with the exception of Sam Dekker (5-star). Is that enough?
What about Wichita State? There's a couple of 3 star guys but that's it.
Of course, a used car salesman like Calipari can field a team that can potentially win it all every year, depending on whether or not those guys become an actual basketball team.
But what level do you have to recruit at to be able to win it all? All 4 stars? A mix of 4s and 3s? 3s?
Fans of teams who are not the bluebloods. Do you feel your team has enough pure talent to win it all?
Of course, Butler could have changed it all, but they didn't.
The reason I believe people generally say teams like St. Louis, Wichita State and Virginia, and even more established programs like Wisconsin and Villanova may be able to reach the Final 4, but cannot win it all is because they don't have the pure talent, although they might be excellent teams.
Every single team that has won the title has had a McD AA on the team since 1979 except Maryland.
So, if your team is recruiting at a certain level, do you accept that you 'currently' have no chance to win it all? What level is that?
Saint Louis has a senior class of unranked players that has played together for 4 years. Obviously won't be good enough.
Let's take Wisconsin. Wisconsin has a team of contributors of mainly three stars players with the exception of Sam Dekker (5-star). Is that enough?
What about Wichita State? There's a couple of 3 star guys but that's it.
Of course, a used car salesman like Calipari can field a team that can potentially win it all every year, depending on whether or not those guys become an actual basketball team.
But what level do you have to recruit at to be able to win it all? All 4 stars? A mix of 4s and 3s? 3s?
Fans of teams who are not the bluebloods. Do you feel your team has enough pure talent to win it all?
Of course, Butler could have changed it all, but they didn't.