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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3060195, member: 1526"] It's the old, pre-Calhoun Era mindset rearing its ugly head again. If you substitute Kevin Ollie for Dom Perno, we're right back in the mid-1980's mindset. The sky is falling again. Ironically, that psyche is both good and bad, simultaneously. It's good because it cultivates the "us against the world" mentality that Calhoun and his teams rode to three NCAA titles, several other near misses, and old Big East domination. If the BY had existed in the mid-1980's, would anyone here have predicted all of that happening? You'd have been laughed off the board as a whack job. And it's bad at the same time because losing sucks, which breeds negativity, and then that seems to take on a life of it's own, feeding on itself in a vicious cycle. The only real difference is that we are now post-Calhoun and we've already sat on the mountaintop for a long time. It was a revolution of rising expectations. Our present situation reminds me of the line from "Wall Street" - "It's better to never have had money at all than to have had money and then lost it." But we don't have to buy that notion. We are still UCONN. We caught lightning in a bottle once before. We can and will do it again. It will be that much sweeter when it happens for the second time. No school in the country has more combined NCAA basketball nattys than us. The game was invented in our backyard and that record is gonna stay with us! [/QUOTE]