Fighter of the Nightman
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Not sure why that would disqualify us. I know people talk about our early exits in the NCAAs, but you only get "hardware" for three things:illini0440 stated Paul's primary drive is hardware and I believe a couple other insiders said there wasn't any interest in him coming here. While we didn't put on the full-court press to get him, it also likely wouldn't lead to anything. So we're looking at Reeves now and will just have Ty play the point according to Lville. So far Loyalty is, eh-ehm, skeptical. I think that summarizes it.
1. Winning the national championship
2. Winning your conference.
3. Winning your conference tournament
Only three teams have accomplished the first since Paul got to Rutgers - Baylor, Kansas and UConn. It's a very difficult thing to do, and you can't really just eliminate schools who have not done it, as each new March Madness is a bit of a crapshoot. Illinois has done #2 and #3 while Paul has been at Rutgers, and we have been one game away from doing #2 an additional two times, giving pretty good evidence that you can have a good shot at competing for a Big Ten title here. Heck, last year's mess of a squad even had a legit shot to catch Purdue shockingly late into the season, haha! Even on the winning the NC thing, the best you can count on before Selection Sunday is getting a #1 seed, right? And we have done that, as well. Sometimes you get upset and we unfortunately did, but I would be curious to see the list of programs that would qualify as giving Paul the potential to get some "hardware" and that are also interested in Paul, lol...