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Message: [QUOTE="Mel03, post: 1003926, member: 4627"] This is it. I have been a long time follower, but first time poster. This is what kills me. We sit on the recruit board, see top players fly into Syaracuse and play for us from all over the country and have hung one banner. The soon-to-be 1000 wins bring me happiness throughout the regular season, but the flameouts are worse because I spend 6 months with "what if?" I mean, this trend is consistent. How many of these teams I will list below had more talent than us? I love Boeheim, but we have left ourselves with consistent opportunities for inferior players to make plays. Sorrentine, all the 3s against Dayton, still losing to Baylor without Onuaku. These teams should not have even been in the gym with our talent and athleticism. Not one of our losses were against teams that sped the ball up. Everyone has forced us to sit in the zone and stay in the game, ultimately losing far too often...these stats KILL me. As someone above also said, "One championship is nice." Well, Pitino has 2, Donovan has 2, CAL-CHEATER-HOUN has 3?!?!?!?! We are on that level and probably above all those programs, but we don't get to feel the championships. 2004 Started 15-1, then lost 5 out of 8. -- LOST SWEET 16 AS A 4 SEED TO ALABAMA (8) 2005 Started 21-2, then lost 3 out of 4. -- LOST FIRST ROUND AS A 4 SEED TO VERMONT (13) 2006 Started 15-2, then lost 5 out of 6. -- LOST FIRST ROUND AS A 5 SEED TO TEXAS A&M (12) 2009 Started 16-1, then lost 5 out of 6. -- LOST AS 3 SEED IN SWEET SIXTEEN 2010 A legitimately excellent team that never had a bad stretch in regular season -- LOST AS 1 SEED IN SWEET 16 TO BUTLER (5) 2011 Started 18-0, then lost 4 straight. -- LOST IN 2ND ROUND AS 3 SEED TO MARQUETTE (11) 2012 A legitimate excellent team that never had a bad stretch. -- LOST IN ELITE 8 AS 2 SEED TO OHIO STATE 2013 Started 20-3, then lost 4 out of 5. -- MADE FINAL 4. 2014 Started 25-0, then lost 5 out of 7. -- LOST IN ROUND OF 32 AS 3 SEED TO DAYTON (11) I love this school, team and program, but let's use our talent and staff to put us in positions to win in March and April, not November and December [/QUOTE]

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