re: Dan Wolken: if Kirby doesn't win the East in 17, he's a clown

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I honestly don't recall. Did they have fan support ? Before? Did they build? Was this riding on the wave of the football success ?

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Florida went to the Final Four in 1994 and the title game in 2000 (I believe Lon Kruger was their HC then), so Donovan didn't quickly build a championship program from scratch. He just took what Kruger had built and ramped it up several levels higher.