Blue Blood - does Florida qualify?

[gtcam]

UConn is without doubt the blue blood. The rest can argue amongst themselves

 

[Scrutineer]

My opinion is that Kansas, UCLA, Indiana, UNC, Kentucky and Duke all had old gilded-age Newport mansions right on the coast. Indy's fell into disrepair, so UConn demolished it and had Frank Gehry build something modern. UCLA's is in major disrepair waiting for someone to take it over.

But, but, but UCLA is destined for greatness with coach what's his name, aren't they?

 

[Scrutineer]

I have a hard time putting us over Duke because of our mediocre regular seasons a lot of years and our almost ten year draught. I know all of us like to say regular season wins don’t matter but they do.

They had one great coach for 40 years so maybe it was just a fluke. UConn has won more titles and with three coaches.
Then there's the women's team with one coach for 40 years but with 12 titles!
UConn is not a one hit wonder either by coaching longevity or diversity.

 

[superjohn]

I have a hard time putting us over Duke because of our mediocre regular seasons a lot of years and our almost ten year draught. I know all of us like to say regular season wins don’t matter but they do.

Championships matter way more than any regular season stuff. That along with UConn doing it with three different coaches and having the most dominant back to back in the 64 team era put UConn over Duke in my eyes. They are clearly the two programs in the modern era.

 

[Rocktheworld]

If it took us 6 NCs for the larger media to take us seriously as blue bloods, why in the hell should anyone care about Florida and their 3? What an absolutely ridiculous topic