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[QUOTE="sufan4eva13, post: 2630284"]
As a 25 year old fan, there’s a few that stand out for me:

1. Arinze going down in 2010 was by far the worst example. That 2010 team was everything you could ever ask for in a Cuse basketball team. Yeah, in 2012 we had a better record, but for some reason looking back it still feels like 2010 was the better team. I remain convinced, especially since our side of the bracket cleared out big time, that if Arinze had been healthy we’d have won it all.

2. Fab being declared ineligible in 2012 was a huge kick in the nuts. It was another year where we had the goods to cut down the nets and were basically relegated to a team incapable of doing so as a result of losing our center. Obviously these two are the big ones for everyone recently, but being 25 they’re the standouts from my perspective.

3. This one has been mentioned by a few as well, but just the way we ended the 2014 season after starting 25-0 was a major disappointment. To understand why I think looking at it in the context of where we were as a program is best. We’d been on a run of being elite in the past several years, we’d ascended to #1 in the nation, that game when we beat Pitt at the buzzer to get to 25-0 was probably the high point of our programs reputation pre sanctions looking back. Once we hit 25-0, everything went to crap. Yeah, we made two final fours, but the notion that we were building into a true elite program hit its apex at 25-0. I hope we can get back to that point.
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