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[QUOTE="KnightBridgeAZ, post: 4748433, member: 591"]
This is all true.  It is not exclusive to UConn, of course.  Many coaches, especially long term ones, and who have shown their players that they actually care about them, end up with ex-players considering themselves a family.  In fact, many coaches use that "family" as part of their recruiting.

But the original question addresses actual results that are expected.  As was correctly pointed out, expectations are different at different schools.  For non-power conference schools, besides (of course) winning records, I think fan bases expect the school to contend for a conference championship and therefore to make the NCAA tournament; a program with a history of success at that level leads to this becoming a necessity for the coach to satisfy the fanbase.

I think only at UConn can there be an expectation of an annual Final Four, because there are so many of them.  I think most school fanbases expect their team to contend for the conference championship and / or make the NCAA's with an at large bid.  For most schools, consistently making the sweet 16 would be satisfactory as long as there is a chance of going deeper.  The better the program the higher the expectation.
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