[Observing]

The thing to remember is that it's getting much more difficult to
put together a team that is a HEAVY favorite to win it. It's going to
be rare from now on to see teams like UK last year, that can go out
and just WIN IT without a break somewhere along the way. So if
this team develops as Cal's history indicates, they have a good chance
of being among the solid contenders.

And in reality, the way the game is going, it may just not be possible
for anybody BUT Cal to put together those real heavyweight teams
any more. The way the talent immediately flees to the NBA, it's
almost by definition that a team that has vastly superior talent
to the rest of the field, will be mostly FRESHMEN. That doesn't
mean even Cal can do it again very often, but who else can do it
at all?

Which leaves us in what I think SHOULD be a satisfactory position:
able to be a legit contender for the FF most years, and feeling that
our down years are where the team will have to scramble and need
lucky breaks to make an FF, as opposed to the previous 7 years
of seeing our ability to even make the tnmt. slowly fading away.