(01-27-2014 03:24 PM)Mimi Wrote: 85 is a tough year to start for Memphis.
Because we made 3 consecutive Sweet 16s from 82-84.
But yes that was the first 64 team bracket.
But that was the problem last time. I wasn't looking for sweet 16s. I was looking for tourney runs of 2 wins or more, to meet the definition of the post I was questioning.
He talked about "deep runs" as a standard to measure Pastner, and defined it as S16 or deeper, in today's context. I was looking to see how many "deep runs of 2 or more wins we made, NOT how many S16s we had, that included one-win "runs" in the old days.
1982 and 1983 were one win S16s, 1984 was a 2 win S16. So I originally counted only 1984, along with our F4 run in 1985, as S16s, or better.
I also posted later that I never should have used S16s as the standard, due to different eras, and instead should have labeled them as "Seasons with 2 tourney wins, or more."
Hope that clears it up.
Any way you slice it, our history does not support holding Pastner to a standard of "a few deep runs" before people will lay off him.
Especially since the only two coaches who ever met that definition had either multiple tourney appearances or a full season vacated.