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[QUOTE="shizzah, post: 288872, member: 113"]
I actually heard you on the show earlier this week and was planning on tuning but some things came up. Thanks for posting the questions and answers.
 
These are some big topics but I'll have at one of them:
 
6) We view Syracuse as a top national power in basketball. We’ve got one championship. Connecticut and Kansas have three, Duke 4, UNC 5, Kentucky 8 and UCLA 11. What is there about those schools vs. SU that allow them to get to so many more Final Fours and win more championships? Why can’t we be like them?
 
Here are a couple reasons why we don't have more championships:
 
1) Bad luck - DC misses the front end and Smart makes a very difficult shot when we lost to Indiana in 1987 - we were the better team.
 
- Possibly the best two teams in our history lose their starting centers for the NCAA tournament. Championship caliber teams may have lost critical players at points in the year and still won the tourney...but not RIGHT before the tournament with no time to really adjust and not TWICE.
 
2) We had our greatest talent when college bball was stacked. From 1986-1990 there were some tremendous teams in the NCAA. We had a shot one year and, as mentioned, got a little unlucky. Since that point the truth of the matter is that we have not had an elite collection of talent on our team other than 2003 (we had a transcendent talent in Melo, a future NBA player in Hak surrounded by tremendous role players), 2009 (this is debatable but we had two NBA level talents in Wes and Rautins supplanted again by tremendous role players and last year where we had at the absolute least two probably first round draft picks in Dion and Fab.
 
-We won in 2003 and would have at least made it I think last year with Melo.
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