Question re: Arkansas Basketball and the Last 20 years / Next 20 years

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Seems like a response thread

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Could be, I guess, but more so because it made me think and I became curious.

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Or do you think that this is just kind of who you are now, a solid program but not a Top 15-20 type program?

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hmm, i think historically we're probably in the 20's somewhere still but i know that's not your question.

basketball as a whole to me is not what it used to be. and i don't think that's just me getting older and cranky, i think if you watch a game from 20 years ago and compare to today that today is just not as good, imo- or not as good in a team play way for sure.

so, i'm still not answering your question really but we're definitely not where we were and i'm getting skeptical of if we'll ever be there again. we only have one natty but we were a force to be dealt with almost every year for a few decades minimum. i hope to get back there but no we are not or haven't been. is mike the answer? i don't know that either so i leave this post with not really providing anything but i don't knows.

A response thread to just one post....

Sad man, so sad

And to answer your question....Arkansas is around a top 15 program all time, even with only the small achievements since 2000

probably the new normal but i certainly hope not.

I do think we will return to the top tier program we were. Not convinced MA is the man to do that, however.

double the pleasure post

Good stuff, seems like a pretty reasonable response.

Arkansas should be a perennial top 25/tournament team and reach at least the sweet 16 once every 4/5 years. We obviously aren't at that level right now.

I agree with piggilicious. I find our team almost unwatchable from a team-game perspective, regardless as to whether we're doing better this year relative to recent memory. I was a basketball nut/gym rat growing up and played a lot of hoops in my formative years - and LOVED Arkansas hoops - i can vividly recall days of old w/ Eddie Sutton and Nolan, especially when thing really got rolling in late 80s-early 90s. This...what we are doing now - doesnt come close to any of the glory years.

We're terrible and have many average and forgettable players that come thru our program on a yearly basis it seems. I am utterly unimpressed with Bobby Portis - he's 6'10" and has improved his jumper and overall offensive game, but if he's a lotto pick then my impression of what's a lottery pick is way off. He's got cinder blocks for feet and doesn't dominate the paint at all.

Anyway, i digress. I think we're a middling program with the resources to be great but we're a long way from it. We'll probably make the NCAA tourney and get sent somewhere far away and lose to an inferior team in the first round because we're undisciplined and choke on the road.

This style we play doesnt at all resemble the real 40 mins of hell where i once saw a half time score of Arkansas vs Loyola Marymount at 76-72, I do not think MA is the answer but my mind could be changed if we get Malik Monk and a couple others and really make a splash and gain some momentum.

Otherwise, we'll just be an ok program which in the SEC is in the top quartile but not worth a shite in most other power conferences.