With the Mets being rained out tonight I was looking at this site and somehow wound up back in old threads. I found this thread from October of 2005 and thought this old poll was very revealing in regards to where our hopes and dreams were back then as a fan base and how that perspective seems so surprising and outdated in retrospect. The question of when SJU was going to get back to the final four was asked. (see poll results below in that old thread)
I am sure that no one who was polled back then believed that we would have had to wait this long (seventeen-plus years and counting) to return to the Final Four. If the question would have been simply
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I am sure that no one who was polled back then believed that we would have had to wait this long (seventeen-plus years and counting) to return to the Final Four. If the question would have been simply
When Do You Feel SJU Will Next win a single NCAA tournament game?
I think people back then would have been outraged if anyone suggested it would have taken five more years for SJU to win a single NCAA game, let alone seventeen more years and counting. Today we have lived through an unbelievable drought yet as fans many of us have managed to endure. Years of losing have lowered the bar and the question of when we will go back to the final four again does not even seem relevant today. Personally, I would be thrilled to get back into the NCAA tournament and just win a single game to advance to the round of 32. I hope it happens soon. The pieces might be there for us and with a few breaks, it could actually happen. Hope springs eternal but I am getting older and would hate to wait another seventeen years for us to be relevant again.__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
When Do You Feel SJU Will Next Reach The Final Four?
- Thread starterpurple
- Start dateOct 25, 2005
When Do You Feel SJU Will Next Reach The Final Four?
2006-2010 (the optimistic, perhaps, MCN PA option)
Votes: 00.0%2011-2015
Votes: 58 100.0%2016-2020
Votes: 00.0%2020+
Votes: 00.0%Unless you're talking the NIT, never again (the pessimistic, perhaps, Newsman13 option)
Votes: 00.0%