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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 2056061" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>With all due respect to the history of the Illini...</p><p></p><p>The Illini program should strive to exceed its historical standards. While U of I has a great legacy that others would love to have and has enjoyed a high level of success in certain eras... that still needs to reach to a higher level... the National Championship-type standard. That standard is not one born of arrogance or entitlement but of the desire to be the best. Period. And doing so the 'right way'.</p><p></p><p>For Illinois and Illini fans... it should not be satisfying to contend in the Big Ten and win a game or two in the Dance. The standard should be the same as it is for the boiler-plate Blue Bloods... Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, etc. That’s the high air where the Illini should be dwelling.</p><p></p><p>Hopefully, the great restoration of the Illini roundball program that has occurred under Coach Underwood and the brilliant Illini AD has set the table to launch the Illini to this highest-level standard for the long future. The taste we all got of the Sweet Sixteen this time around should give everyone involved the incentive to taste this Sweetness and beyond every year.</p><p></p><p>This great history needs more really big shiny things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 2056061, member: 748116"] With all due respect to the history of the Illini... The Illini program should strive to exceed its historical standards. While U of I has a great legacy that others would love to have and has enjoyed a high level of success in certain eras... that still needs to reach to a higher level... the National Championship-type standard. That standard is not one born of arrogance or entitlement but of the desire to be the best. Period. And doing so the 'right way'. For Illinois and Illini fans... it should not be satisfying to contend in the Big Ten and win a game or two in the Dance. The standard should be the same as it is for the boiler-plate Blue Bloods... Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, North Carolina, etc. That’s the high air where the Illini should be dwelling. Hopefully, the great restoration of the Illini roundball program that has occurred under Coach Underwood and the brilliant Illini AD has set the table to launch the Illini to this highest-level standard for the long future. The taste we all got of the Sweet Sixteen this time around should give everyone involved the incentive to taste this Sweetness and beyond every year. This great history needs more really big shiny things. [/QUOTE]
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