Because it's always easier to complain about not having stuff than to admit you made a mistake.

For not years, but decades, we heard that VT hoops could never be competitive because rural, because Cassell, because anything except the succession of retreads, has-beens, and never-wases that were hired to fill the HC seat. Then we hired Buzz, and miraculously it became possible to make the Sweet 16 playing in the same facility located in the same small town.