Blue Blood - does Florida qualify?

[John]

I’m begging you to stop saying “chip.”

100%. People should be auto-banned for a predetermined amount of time for every use.

 

[bendm]

100%. People should be auto-banned for a predetermined amount of time for every use.

Ok I’ll call them Nattys instead

 

[TheChamps990411]

Kansas is the gatekeeper with 4. Tie them and youre in the discusssion, surpass them and youre in. It makes sense in my mind so dont ask.

 

[bendm]

Kansas is the gatekeeper with 4. Tie them and youre in the discusssion, surpass them and youre in. It makes sense in my mind so dont ask.

Idk KU was still a blue blood with 3. We tied them in 2011 and passed them in 2014 (Then they tied us in 2022) yet we didn’t become a BB until we got 6 in 2024. Rigged.

 

[Lafayette]

Duke does have UNC/UCLA/Kentucky history to them as long as you're not strictly talking about titles. "Some final fours" is a funny way of saying 8 final fours before 1991 (which is still more than UConn has as a program now). They literally lost to UCLA and UK in title games in the 60s and 70s. They have more wins overall as a program than UCLA. UConn has like 500 less. They're 5th in tournament appearances, and the ones above them are all the names you'd expect (UK, Kansas, UCLA, UNC). They were anointed without fanfare because they already fit all the aspects. We're 14th in bids. They're 4th in Sweet 16s (UK, UNC, UCLA, then them), we're 12th.

Duke is a private school - the economics change the funding formulas.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We really need to stop caring about this. Florida is easily a top 10 program in the modern era.

I will grant some respect to teams that were good back in the early days, good most of the time since and are still good now, but that's really only Kansas, Kentucky and North Carolina. Duke has a fair case as well as @auror points out. Some teams with history, like the orange Canadians, haven't maintained success. Nor has UCLA or Indiana.

 

[freescooter]

Idk KU was still a blue blood with 3. We tied them in 2011 and passed them in 2014 (Then they tied us in 2022) yet we didn’t become a BB until we got 6 in 2024. Rigged.

Anyone questioning Kansas as a blue blood. Knows nothing about college basketball. They have been a power since the game began. Before there even was an NCAA tournament, Kansas was one of the nationally recognized programs. They have had a team in the final four in every decade except the 1960s since the NCAA tournament began. They won two Helms titles in the 1920s pre NCAA. There last Championship was 2022.

To get back to the original question though, you aren’t a blue blood because you wo 2 titles a 15 years ago then another one.

 

[Lafayette]

Anyone questioning Kansas as a blue blood. Knows nothing about college basketball. They have been a power since the game began. Before there even was an NCAA tournament, Kansas was one of the nationally recognized programs. They have had a team in the final four in every decade except the 1960s since the NCAA tournament began. They won two Helms titles in the 1920s pre NCAA. There last Championship was 2022.

To get back to the original question though, you aren’t a blue blood because you wo 2 titles a 15 years ago then another one.

major land grant colleges have been around so long the alum and donations are massive. The haves can afford it which is chalk.

 

[Lafayette]

Anyone questioning Kansas as a blue blood. Knows nothing about college basketball. They have been a power since the game began. Before there even was an NCAA tournament, Kansas was one of the nationally recognized programs. They have had a team in the final four in every decade except the 1960s since the NCAA tournament began. They won two Helms titles in the 1920s pre NCAA. There last Championship was 2022.

To get back to the original question though, you aren’t a blue blood because you wo 2 titles a 15 years ago then another one.

Blue bloods seems to derive from morrill land grant act which gave UCLA, KU, UK, etc land for university property and dates back to the 1860s. UConn gained land grant status after the Yale dispute and the Storrs Bros pushed it thru.

Hence there is the OGs under Morrill that seems to want to be the blue bloods for how long they have existed and have been competitive while they tend to have UConn not in that list as we came somewhat after.

So overall this is us vs them kind of argument that largely sits on Morrill but due to expansion and “the modern era” it starts to erode that argument.

 

[Icehawk]

Blue bloods never stop being one, see the Vanderbilts as an example. So UCLA will always be one, albeit a faded one. UConn is almost over the “new money” hump, hell I think consensus after the last few years is we are part of the club. It’s a combination of lots of factors but in the end it’s what your peers and the public believe more than anything. Teams like Nova are part of an upper tier but, like Florida, IMO are barely approaching new money territory let alone the hallowed halls.

 

[IndyLives]

UConn is the JP Morgan of college basketball. Ruthless Titan but has saved the BE Conference from demise many times over!!

 

[Lafayette]

UConn is the JP Morgan of college basketball. Ruthless Titan but has saved the BE Conference from demise many times over!!

I am a UConn former student athlete and working at JP Morgan. How ironic to that post.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Anyone questioning Kansas as a blue blood. Knows nothing about college basketball. They have been a power since the game began. Before there even was an NCAA tournament, Kansas was one of the nationally recognized programs. They have had a team in the final four in every decade except the 1960s since the NCAA tournament began. They won two Helms titles in the 1920s pre NCAA. There last Championship was 2022.

To get back to the original question though, you aren’t a blue blood because you wo 2 titles a 15 years ago then another one.

I don't think anyone questioned them. As I've said a few times, the fans are rather proud of their historic contribution to the sport of college basketball. Not only what KU has done on the court, but the state and program under Phog Allen producing both Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp, leading to the other two most obvious "blue bloods". They still shouldn't count the Helms as titles though.

 

[freescooter]

Blue bloods seems to derive from morrill land grant act which gave UCLA, KU, UK, etc land for university property and dates back to the 1860s. UConn gained land grant status after the Yale dispute and the Storrs Bros pushed it thru.

Hence there is the OGs under Morrill that seems to want to be the blue bloods for how long they have existed and have been competitive while they tend to have UConn not in that list as we came somewhat after.

So overall this is us vs them kind of argument that largely sits on Morrill but due to expansion and “the modern era” it starts to erode that argument.

We also didn’t compete at the same level. UConn was never willing to seriously challenge Yale athletically until the 1980s. We and the rest of the Yankee Conference schools didn’t play D1 football because the Ivies de-emphasized athletics in the 1950s so the thinking went we couldn’t have major programs either.