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Message: [QUOTE="cuseincincy, post: 248558, member: 331"] I truly do love the orange colored glasses most of us put on when evaluating how others will view our team. If Dion and Fab come back then I'd agree we'd probably be top 10. That not being anywhere likely SU will not sniff the top 10 even with Noel. I know other teams lose a lot of players also but SU, as deep as it was returns little proven talent for others to evaluate. We return Triche, that's it. Other than BT we return a PF who started but was very underperforming for a McD AA. Rak will be viewed just like Fab was coming into this year, a disappointment with something to prove. We also return role players in Fair and Southerland, nothing for outsiders to get excited about. Each showed flashes but not the consistency. MCW is a very talented unproven commodity looking to take over the team, provided his HOF coach doesn't still insist that Triche is the team's PG. And then their Keita who disappeared for games at a time but had a nice tournament run. But despite 2 years expereience in the Big East many SU fans are thinking he shoudl redshirt because of the possibility of 2 super frosh. The one we know is coming, Coleman, is a reported load of a post player with conditioning questions who by the way is not as highly rated as Christmas was but he's going to be shiny and new so then he's obviously going to be better. I won't mention Cooney because no matter how good I think he'll be, teams rankings are rarely impacted by their 3rd guard. Bottom line we lost 4 of our top 5 players and have a lot of talented options that have to find their way in Division I hoop. I see a pre-season ranking around 12-18 likely. If Noel does come to SU that may go to 10-15. But remember...this is how I think outsiders will view SU and how they'll be ranked. [/QUOTE]

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