Recent History: A lesson in six parts

The Godwin’s Law of the Crosstown Shootout is that, eventually, every conversation with a UC fan will come back to a championship that happened back when most of our parents were still learning how to ride a bike. Like a modern Italian who won’t shut up about the Roman Empire, they cling to ancient history as if it has any bearing on a world, and game, that has changed so drastically as to be essentially unrecognizable. As with anything, recency tells a more accurate story. Here’s the Shootout in what we (and likely no one else) call the Banners Era.

This was not a good game for the Musketeers. To give you some idea where the program has come since then, the week before this game there was a…