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This list would be expanded to include teams like Indiana or UCLA if you looked beyond 25 years but can you really be considered relevant and a blue blood if you haven't won anything since the 60s, 70s or 80s.college basketball history is more than the last 25 years...Florida was a flash. Nowhere near a blueblood
This list would be expanded to include teams like Indiana or UCLA if you looked beyond 25 years but can you really be considered relevant and a blue blood if you haven't won anything since the 60s, 70s or 80s.
I think the connotation is elite & storied program. In football Army and Nebraska are storied with rich histories of great seasons, but neither are elite today. UConn has done it long enough in hoops that I think they’re no longer new blood. 25 years is a long time given that “modern” American history is generally regarded as beginning after WWII in most contexts. Miami and FSU haven’t stayed atop football’s best programs for as long as UConn has in basketball. If we restrict the definition to very long-term, the Yankees, UNC, Kansas, and Kentucky (bball), and Alabama & Ohio St (football) are probably the only teams in US sports to have transcended at least 3 generations and remained elite most of the while. I might be missing a few but if we go by elite & storied, the list is very small. Steelers might get there at some point. Maybe USC too. Indiana bball hasn’t been elite in some time.The non-basketball definition of Blue Blood is about your family and lineage, not your recent success.
Do you want Blue Bloods or New Bloods?
ExactlyThe non-basketball definition of Blue Blood is about your family and lineage, not your recent success.
Do you want Blue Bloods or New Bloods?
UCLA won in 1995 and Indiana in 1987. If you make it to the Sweet Sixteen every year, and now and then to the Final Four, I think you can.This list would be expanded to include teams like Indiana or UCLA if you looked beyond 25 years but can you really be considered relevant and a blue blood if you haven't won anything since the 60s, 70s or 80s.
If (when) we land Dylan....there WILL BE BLOOD: SCARLET!What exactly does "Blue Blood" mean? Or supposed to mean?
Just wondering why it matters who is or isn't a "blue blood". And what supposed advantages they are supposed to have.