I definitely agree and I'm not on the "we're not making the tourney" bandwagon or anything like that. The problem is that OSU and MSU are way down this year (by their standards) and the middle of the pack is super soft compared to the previous few years. What I don't like are the "look at where we are from the Lick years" and "the goal was just to get to the tournament this year" lines of thinking. Any successful business, organization, or teams' goal is always to exceed to the goals, not just scrape by to meet the goals.
This.
I've thought for years that Iowa fans are waaaay to enamored with just not stinking. Particularly the fans who've never had a butt in a seat in a classroom in Iowa City.