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Message: [QUOTE="fanfanclubclub, post: 43613, member: 787"] Just because injuries are part of the game, doesn't mean that Syracuse didn't get lucky to beat WF. For analogy, recovering fumbles is also part of the game. However, recovering fumbles appears, empirically, to be random: and not necessarily skill driven. The random bounces of the ball have more to do with who recovers a fumble, and no teams or players can generally be shown, at statistically significant levels, to have the "skill" of fumble recovery. So if Syracuse wins a bunch of close games by recovering 12 fumbles out of 12 available fumbles: it would be easy to say that Syracuse had benefited from "some lucky bounces." And this season, we have certainly benefited from some lucky bounces: WF and Toledo especially. Congrats to our guys for having the karma and never-say-die attitude to benefit from luck. I'm extremely confident that Greggors would have blown those games, so we can't chalk all of it up to luck. [/QUOTE]