Homer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2019 9:34 pm Here's another list, of programs with semifinal and/or multiple quarterfinal appearances since 2016:
Albany, Brown, Denver, Duke, Loyola, Maryland, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Syracuse, Towson, Yale
What's the institutional pattern? There isn't one.
Respectfully, this is a very limited view, that leaves out two things.
So, for example, did you know that before last year, Yale had precisely one NCAA playoff win in 20 years? Or that O State, North Carolina, and Brown have missed the playoffs entirely in one of those three years?
Which brings me to the second thing: is that ok for Hopkins fans? Nope. It's not. You're leaving out the most important part of this conversation, and that's the expectations of Hopkins fans. And what the Hopkins fans are saying is that the last three years aren't good enough.
Hopkins made playoffs all three years, and made one QF's. So the next coach has to do far better than that, while also being consistent. Missing the playoffs are no good, and first round losses are the reason everyone on this page is upset in the first place. So that's the context.
Apply that context, and that list gets much shorter. Basically, you're left with Maryland, Denver, Duke, and maybe Notre Dame. I say maybe, because ND doesn't have a championship. Because none of those other programs have had records over the past 10 years, let alone 20, that would have been acceptable at Hopkins. And I think it's important to note that Syracuse and UVa aren't on that short list.
Now looking at that list, Maryland, Denver, Duke and (maybe) Notre Dame are on it. How does Hopkins compare to those schools?