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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 5408663, member: 43"] Meant to respond to this earlier in the week but have been swamped. I think this post pretty much nailed the concerns with the team right now. This current SU team is uber talented and can win a title but it's hard to know what your going to get from quarter to quarter with these guys much less week to week. The comment on feeling unsteady is the perfect description. Just really hard to trust these guys against a fellow top 10 team. In Syracuse's 4 matchups against other top 10 teams they are 1-3 and have played well for maybe 4 total quarters out of 16. Maryland they played a close 1st half but as you noted never looked good. Harvard good 1st quarter but after that it was a mess save for the X, Good 3+ quarters against ND which was their best performance and then against Cornell they were up and down all game and never really looked like themselves. Even in the ND game the 3rd quarter was a jumbled mess but luckily ND was just as bad and the Defense still held up. As you noted this team has talent everywhere but something just feels off about it. Not sure they have played a full 4 qtr game this year save for maybe Jax or Towson. Playing good week in and week out at this level is beyond tough and SU has some flaws that good teams will exploit but it does feel like this team even with a very solid 9-3 record should be more consistent on the field. With Thomson back hopefully that adds some help but not sure what they do now with Anderson or if they leave him and move Thomson to middie. Gait has to find away to get more consistency out of this team. As it stands now they could reach the final four or lose in the 1st round and neither scenario would surprise me one iota and that's not a good sign. [/QUOTE]

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