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Message: [QUOTE="MikeSU02, post: 1046975, member: 60"] I hate this: [I]Also, there is the unknown factor involving the 2012 team. What if Fab Melo had not been declared ineligible just prior to the first round of the NCAA tournament? The Orange still beat UNC Asheville, Kansas State and Wisconsin without the Big East's Defensive Player of the Year. Could Syracuse have beaten Ohio State in the Elite Eight if Melo had been eligible?[/I] [I][/I] When you take a flyer on a kid who has troubles, you have to assume all the risk as part of the strategy. We could flip this statement around and say, "The Orange were lucky to have Fab Melo for as many games as they did". It's not like Arinze's injury. Fab was a crap shoot. We got the good with the bad with him. That should have been expected. [/QUOTE]