Quote Originally Posted by MadDawg View Post
Because we have a different standard now. "Competing for an NIT birth" is now the standard of a good team.
No it isn't. It's a standard for marked improvement showing a team is going in the right direction and earning the coach year 4 to get us back to where we feel we should be.

If we aren't in the NIT next year -- I'm out.
If we aren't in the NCAA's in year 4 -- I'm out.

It's the simplest thing in the world to understand if you aren't so busy forming conspiracy theories about double standards that don't actually exist.