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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4208170, member: 40"]
Big picture, playing and losing to a bunch of mediocre teams doesn't make you a good team -- it makes you even worse than even the mediocre competition.

Why do I bring this up?  Because our record speaks volumes.  In a year where the ACC conference was historically bad, and should have theoretically set up favorably for SU to win games, we posted a losing record of 9-11.  We lost 11 games in the worst ACC of this century.  We lost 17 games overall, because we weren't competitive in the non-conference portion of the schedule, either.

We got anhilated by the two ranked teams we played, and could only hang with a third for a half, en route to getting blown out.

Rationalize individual game outcomes however you'd like.  If you want to look at a 9 point loss, and convince yourself that it was "really" a closer loss because of fouling, be my guest.  But big picture, we weren't competitive.  We weren't competitive with anyone who wasn't a tomato can in the non-conference portion of our schedule, and we weren't even competitive in the ACC conference, despite it being so down.
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