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[QUOTE="cuse522, post: 2127130, member: 1149"]
OK, a Final Four is not a mediocre year. I'm sick of this talk. If we won 28 games and lost in the first round, people would be up in arms and saying tournament performance is what counts. You can't have it both ways, and we're not going to win 30 games and go deep every single year. Let's not forget that last year's team was 23-14 with a Final Four, and got into the tournament despite going 4-5 without Boeheim during his suspension. That team was 19-9 with Boeheim at the helm.

Secondly, Malachi would still be here if not for our run. So to discount the Final Four AND rip their recruiting approach/results is utterly unfair.

A very mediocre ACC team? 5th in the conference in wins in that span, in by far the toughest conference ever assembled. You can't expect to be a perennial top-2 team in a conference that has UNC, Duke, Louisville and UVA. You can say Virginia doesn't fit in that group historically, but they were a 1 or 2 seed each of the last three seasons and a 5 this year.

That's fifth while dealing with NCAA penalties, too. We are not mediocre, we have not had a mediocre last five years, and the sky is not falling. It's raining and there's some thunder in the distance, but we don't need to panic.
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