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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4822506, member: 181"] He's coming to sad acceptance that he will never win a National Championship. His heart cracked when Baylor rolled his undefeated team in 2021, and then UConn crushed what he must have thought was his next best chance last March. Last night before a large home state crowd, Gonzaga added itself to the list of double digit defeats inflicted by UConn. Few's long time former assistant Tommy Lloyd has Arizona sitting (as of this writing) atop the AP poll. For years, a strong case could be made that he was the best coach never to have won it all. It's not like he blew it or merits derision for his inability to win the big one. After falling to UNC by 6 points in the 2017 Final, two different younger coaches have constructed the most dominant championship runs in the new century. At age 60, Few is by no means old, but the landscape has changed, and I believe that moving from Gonzaga to a program with extraordinary resources would provide his only possibility to reach the highest height. I doubt that will happen, although I admit that it could. For now, it's understandable that he could look like a man whose dream has died. Imagine being that successful and having such a realization unfold in real time. [/QUOTE]