Tradition

Tradition can be a funny thing in athletics. Everyone wants to have a winning tradition. Those that have it want to keep it. Those that don't have it want to build it.

It's hard to build tradition, but it's easy to lose it because of the complacency that comes with the fact that you have a winning tradition. If you have a winning tradition you have to work harder than those before you to acheive the same results. A target on your back comes with tradition.