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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
Yeah, try selling that to non-kansas fans and see how it goes. Oh, sure, we only won one title during this stretch, but we won our division all these years in a row. Do baseball fans care that the Atlanta Braves won the AL East 11 straight times? Do NFL fans care that the Patriots won the AFC East 11 straight times?
14 division/conference titles in a row is impressive, sure. But it's a "trivia" level accomplishment that is less important/memorable than winning the whole thing.
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How many more championships would you expect from Kansas in the past few decades (just using "in my lifetime" as the metric, since I personally don't care about things that happened in the 50s)?
To be on UK's level, they need one more title in the past 40 years... UNC, +2... Duke, +3.
Sure, one or two more titles in my lifetime would have been great, but they also don't have seasons that end in the NIT or worse like the other 3 teams mentioned (and sure, their fans don't care because they have the extra titles).
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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
One could say exactly the same about college basketball. That the regular season is meaningless, that the team that is going to win in all likelihood is going to be a blue blood university with an elite all time coach. You'll have quirky outliers, but the sport is dominated by special "haves" classes who define the quality of their season on how they do once the Sweet 16 round kicks in.
I'm not a Super Bowl or bust guy or anything. But they Detoxing any sort of regular season accomplishment for an NFL team and especially the Chiefs.
The only way the Chiefs going undefeated is significant is IF they complete the perfect season in the playoffs. THEN it becomes a monumental achievement.
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IMO, the difference is the level of parity... CBB's regular season is more interesting to me because teams can't just sleepwalk through a conference schedule and get a 1 seed. But, you could say the regular season is largely pointless due to that parity, even though you see far more ranked vs. ranked matchups than marquee NFL matchups.
OTOH, the Chiefs were literally talking about how they just wanted to fast forward to the postseason all of last year, how they were opening the playbook in January, etc.
In the past couple of seasons, if you said "take the Chiefs or the field", most people would probably take the Chiefs... just like for most of 20 seasons, you would take the Patriots over the field.
I don't think that's really true for CBB, outside of say Kentucky's 2012 pre-NBA team.