Exactly this. A poster above criticizes the players for "having a sense of entitlement" while he and other posters wail like a pack of coyotes because we have declined from our status as back to back champions. I'd like just once for one of them to answer the questions, "What in Carolina's collective DNA makes us better than LSU, Texas, Southern California, UCLA, and all other past CWS champions who have experienced similar declines after wining it all?
What made our runs in Omaha even more incredible is the fact that we are a much smaller state than any of these others ,with a much smaller population and recruiting base, and us wining it all not once but twice can be compared to Bolivia conquering the world militarily. Ray Tanner commented in an interview after the 2010 CWS that the team that just won it was not his most talented, nor the most talented in Omaha that year, but just played the game with the love and respect for each other that enabled them to beat teams much better than they were. You can recruit talent, but you can't recruit those type of intangibles from a bunch of high school players who've never met one another, you just have to hope that every once in a long time, it'll develop before your eyes and great things will happen. Until then, you're struggling to be competitive within you own conference.
