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Gene Keady may or may not have been a better coach than Jim Calhoun, but he was a better person ...... Calhoun was a real prick.

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Making it to the national championship game and losing is like winning a silver medal in the Olympics ...... Purdue won the 2024 silver in NCAA basketball, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

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actually they didn't win anything. they lost.

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68 teams make the NCAA tournament, and only 4 of them get hardware ...... Purdue was one of those 4 teams.




https://en.as.com/ncaa/ncaa-march-ma...onship-ring-n/


The NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship winners get championship rings ...... Final Four rings are given to the other three teams in the Final Four.

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so a participation trophy

they lost

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No, not a participation trophy.

A participation trophy is a trophy that goes to each and every player and team in the field.

A Final Four ring is is reserved for 4 teams out of 351 Division-1 teams in the NCAA ...... 4 out of 351, which is exactly 0.0114 %.


Somebody who pooh-pooh's a team's and/or a player's accomplishments such as that usually is a person who never played sports, and/or was horrible at them, and/or has no concept of the art of competition.

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The other option is that they are fans of a team that did not make the tournament, so they want to piss on their rivals who did, and went to the Final Four. We call those people Loosiers.

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It also could be Omaha just being Omaha.

He acted the same way when Butler made it to the national championship game in back-to-back years in 2010 and 2011 ...... sometimes, Omaha likes to fuck with people just for the sake of being contrary.

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