This all brings up some great memories. Remember when we had "the list" up top every week for years when Cal took back over?
You'll recall that "the list" was important to us because the fanbase was panicking after a long dry spell (vastly worse than Cal's worst extended span) with Tubby and BCG and was trying to quantify what exactly separated us, if anything, from the other elite programs which had been gaining steadily for a decade.
Once Cal arrived, posters rotated bumping it back up to the top daily as we gleefully watched KU and UNC disappear in our rearview, as well as Cal finally closing that obnoxious F4 gap with the ACC schools and also adding to our championship total.
Eventually, Cal had a positive w/l over every other elite coach, was outperforming them by record, and had built such a safe total wins cushion that people just forgot about it, and it was relegated to the cobwebbed corners of RR history.
Now, Cal has had a weaker stretch by his standards, and the net result is that he's fallen back a little, to where he's been merely comparably effective over the decade with Bill Self and Coach K.
Where's that panic button again?