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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2062471, member: 6761"] Interesting point. But maybe the statistical point is that the teams you've named were all one-time national champions. So, yes, a team can make a run in a given year (because a run really means winning 3 competitive games: elite 8, semis, and the NC; and maybe better teams are eliminated in other games along the way). But to sustain a truly great program year-in and year-out, you've named the strategy of Tenn and UConn: play anyone, anytime, anywhere. For sustained superiority, it seems that you've got to develop an attitude to being tough for 6 months, not for 3 games. That's the inference, but even here, with n=2 (UConn and Tenn), I'm not saying it's true. However, it seems to [B]tend to[/B] work in the NFL: since the league decided that the top finishing teams play the hardest schedule the following year, a lot of those teams (esp. the Patriots, Ravens, and Steelers) have tended to stay strong the entire time. (Of course, they are also among the top organizations as well.) [/QUOTE]