Correct. Every NCAA Team, MLB Team, NFL Team, NBA Team is a loser but 1. You don't say the Buffalo Bills are a tradional power even though they made multiple Super Bowl Championship games. Why? Because they never won. The New York Yankees consider every season a failure if they did not win another World Series Championship. 27 times the Yankees were successful, they have a tradition of winning, they are a power. You do not play to just have a good regular season record and make the Sweet 16, or Elite 8. You play to win National Championships. 1 goal. Purdue is the Buffalo Bills of college basketball. Never won. Never will.I've never been the one who said it was only about championships. If I did then I misspoke. That's been IU fans saying that so they don't have to admit Purdue has been very successful recently. If I would say painter has been to more sweet sixteens in the last dozen years than IU has tournaments then I'd have someone respond about how it wasn't a championship or you with your 40 year final four comment. That's a dumb way to think because there's plenty of successful teams every year. Sure there's 1 champion but that doesn't make 300+ other teams unsuccessful. Really a dumb way to think. You think IU is gonna win it all next year? No? Guess you don't need to watch their unsuccessful year then.
But what you do want to to do is turn around and say IU is like those several football powers and their tradition. Those teams in a different sport where your regular season impacts postseason much more than basketball have regularly had big success in every decade. IU basketball who has missed the field of "68" more times than they've made it recently is nothing like those football teams who have consistently been playing in big time bowl games but only get the chance to win it all if they are the top "2". That's a weak argument.
If anyone is moving goalposts its you when you go from IU basketball has championship tradition to if IU doesn't then these powerhouse football teams don't have tradition either.
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