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I would almost cut it off at 2010-11.
Ten seasons: 273 - 71.
Pretty sure we didn't do much of significance after that anyway, did we? Or did we win a regular season conference title I'm forgetting?
Ten seasons: 273 - 71.
Pretty sure we didn't do much of significance after that anyway, did we? Or did we win a regular season conference title I'm forgetting?
After 2011 it was apparent that our period of relevancy had run its course. But what a glorious time it was to be a panther fan before that.
All that video did was reminded me of our end of season failures.
Those teams were such a tease. It was like getting to third base all the time with a female but never scoring. Just ending up with blue balls and pain.
Those teams were such a tease. It was like getting to third base all the time with a female but never scoring. Just ending up with blue balls and pain.
Better than the five years prior to this one, where we definitely scored... but the chick was Amy Schumer.
The sad thing is, and this is partly the result of a poor basketball city and media is people didn't appreciate and enjoy the success because of "March Madness". If this was football, that era would be canonized. But so many, including on this board because they only start following basketball to fill out their brackets, never fully appreciated what was happening.
I think they mostly enjoyed the success. Pitt basketball was the toughest ticket in town. We all took it for granted, but the support was there.
It would be easy to look back and call the fans spoiled or non-appreciative of that success, but I get it - if you get to Level X enough times, eventually you get bored and want to get to Level Y. So I can't even fault them for that. It looks silly in retrospect (Sweet Sixteens not being good enough and whatnot), but at the time... well, it was a different world we were living in.
What an unlikely era, though. I remember thinking it would finally fall apart just above every time we had any significant roster turnover. "Okay, this will finally be when our recruiting rankings catch up to us." But the system and the culture were just too strong. The talent wasn't quite as lacking as fans sometimes make it out to be (go back and look at exactly where some of those players were rated when recruited), but we were still definitely maximizing it and beating teams with more of it.
People say, "yes but then you moved to the ACC". Like that was such a quality jump up. First of all, 2 other Big East powers moved.
I am sorry, in 2002-2010 The Big East with Pitt, UConn, Villanova, Syracuse, St Johns, Lville, WVU, ND, Marquette, Georgetown, Cincy was a far, far, far more superior conference than the ACC is now. To go through that conference year after year with 12-18 win....at the top of the conference was something else.
I can only say that those years would be viewed even more fondly had we made even one final 4 appearance. If we would have somehow lucked out and won a title in say 2009, Dixon and the team would be immortalized and we would be reliving memories on the Lair constantly.
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