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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5406518, member: 4819"]
When I say, "skating by", I see a team right now that, to me, just isn't playing up to it's potential. Add in the fact that teams like UVA, Hopkins, Duke, and even Notre Dame to a certain extent are "down" this season, its starting to feel like a huge missed opportunity. This team had the most amount of players named IL Midseason All Americans (we can argue the meaning of such a list later), yet sit seventh in most rankings. What is missing? They have talent all over the field, this team isn't unbalanced. Thomson is a big injury but other than that they've had good health. What is it? Maybe it's just me, I just feel very unsteady about this team.

The Maryland game was tied at halftime, but it always felt like the Terps were dictating the terms of that game. Cornell came out gangbusters and exploited everything Syracuse did wrong. The Harvard loss still leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. And yes, that loss has "aged" much better than I thought it would, but the inability to exploit such a massive face-off disparity was perhaps the most frustrating loss in 10+ years - I'll go all the way back to Hobart loss in 2013). It's easy to Monday Morning QB, but even some of the wins - against non tournament teams in Hopkins and UVA were much closer than that probably should have been for a team with as much talent as Syracuse.

I don't know, maybe my expectations are too high. These next two games will prove a lot. If this team ends up being a road team in the playoffs and lose a first or second round game, I'll be very disappointed in how this season played out.
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