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[QUOTE="Fly Rodder, post: 5353069, member: 2133"]
Did they do a deep dive on why Mizzou sucked last season and are good this season? I assume not.

Last year Mizzou lost 2 of their 3 starting guards (including their best player this season) in the beginning of the season, plus had a slew of other injuries to primary guys. They were in a tough SEC (not as tough as this season, but still very good) and they had a some middling transfers. Gates kept the guys that did well and added a boatload of talent.

Gates at least had a track record of developing a program. Cleveland St hadn't had a winning program in 5 years. Gates put them in the tourney in his 2nd year there. Won 2 regular season conference championships in 3 seasons. He put Mizzou back in the tourney in his first season there after they had only been there 2 out of the previous 9 seasons.

Syracuse does not have the talent base that Gates had last season and Red doesn't have the track record Gates has.
A comment from a Mizzou fan: "Honestly, I feel like the fact that [B]this team never stopped playing their asses off[/B] is a testament to how good of a coach Gates is. He just didn't have enough healthy talent left ..."

Can anyone say the same about Red's teams with a straight face? They're not two sides of the same coin.
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