Blue Blood - does Florida qualify?
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No. Not that close. Did they talk about UConn being a “Blue Blood” back in 2011?
It is kind of a stupid topic.
It is kind of a stupid topic.
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No chance. They are in the Nova category, maybe even a notch below that. I only say that because they completely caught lightning in a bottle having a bunch of lottery picks come back and try for a repeat rather than enter the draft. It helped that a couple were from very wealthy families. Part of what makes a program a Blue Blood is the ability to win over and over with new groups of players and coaches. We have epitomized that.
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Just curious, who are you referring to on the wealthy families' connection?
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Ranking the programs historically and modern day/currently.
UConn is the best program of the modern era, the time since the tournament expanded to 64. This could go either way between UConn and Duke. UConn has 6 national championships to Duke's 5. Duke has been consistently better with way more final 4's but I give the nod to UConn because they won national championships under three different head coaches and won back to back with different rosters in the most dominant fashion in the modern era and Duke won theirs under only one coach. UConn is also the best current program. Ranking them historically is a bit tricky but this is my order for the top 10-
UCLA
Kentucky
UNC
UConn
Duke
Kansas
Indiana
Villanova
Louisville
Michigan State
UConn is the best program of the modern era, the time since the tournament expanded to 64. This could go either way between UConn and Duke. UConn has 6 national championships to Duke's 5. Duke has been consistently better with way more final 4's but I give the nod to UConn because they won national championships under three different head coaches and won back to back with different rosters in the most dominant fashion in the modern era and Duke won theirs under only one coach. UConn is also the best current program. Ranking them historically is a bit tricky but this is my order for the top 10-
UCLA
Kentucky
UNC
UConn
Duke
Kansas
Indiana
Villanova
Louisville
Michigan State
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Noah and Horford both had wealthy athlete fathers. One of the others was well off too, as I recall, but I'm not sure who it was and I'm too lazy to research it right now.
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I think you're being generous where you placed uNC because three of their championships came during the eighteen years of academic fraud.
Also, Kansas is too high seeing that two of their four championships were imaginary and, for those who argue they were dominant winning their league every year for lebenty-leben years, how many championships did their league win?
In other words, how good was the league?
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How is Nova not in your second group?
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Who are these people and why are they so stupid?
Also, what does this have to do with Florida being a blue blood?