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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4230210, member: 289"]
I recognize that this is a football thread but the methodology of analyzing teams is important to both sports.

In what objective universe is 16-17 with 7 losses by 5 points or less or in overtime not competitive? How is it irrelevant that five of the losses came to Final Four teams and two more to an Elite 8 team? The ACC, at least at the top was clearly under-rated based on early results but all of our losses came to teams higher than us in the standings, save for the second Pittsburgh game. And we won ACC games by 22, 23, 20 and 39 points.

It's certainly relevant that Ken Pomeroy ranks us 207th in defense but isn't it just as relevant that he ranks us #15 in offense? We were 443rd in strength of schedule, #38 in the strength of our opponents 's offenses and #51 in the strength of their defenses.

Of course, that's not objective because it just quotes facts that are in opposition to your point of view. Just as just quoting facts that support your point of view is not objective. That's the problem with these arguments. I know that 16-17 is not good enough by Syracuse standards. And you know that 16-17 is not 10-21.
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