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Message: [QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 2014586, member: 127"] Wow talk about stubborn and entrenched. Realistically, you don't acknowledge any issues or obstacles that may have impacted the program the past 3 years? If you are uniquely attuned to reality like your claim that many of the posters aren't, did you realistically believe that sanctions would have no effect on our team for years? Realistically did you believe that years of unexpected early NBA entries wouldn't have an impact on the future, limiting time allowed to develop our young players? Realistically do you believe that JB's retirement wouldn't be used against us by other programs and negatively affect recruiting?? Realistically do you think losing Chris McCollough for almost all of the ACC conference schedule made no difference in our regular season results in 2014-2015 when we took the postseason ban? Do you realistically think that taking a preseason unranked SU team (not even 1 vote in "others receiving votes") to the Elite 8 less the Final 4 last year, should be just arbitrarily dismissed when evaluating our performance? Realistically if we had a better season record last year say 28-9 vs 23-14 and pulled a Michigan St in the tournament , you wouldn't be just as negative? That final 4 did kind of ruin things for people pushing a certain point. Let's be "totally" realistic as you say. We have been spoiled hoping that JB does his magic and cobbles together very good teams despite obstacles. He's done it before. JB did think this year's team would be much better than it has played, diss him, fire him, whine, cry, whatever, for helping raise fan's normally high expectations. He wasn't alone though - NBA scouts, pundits were impressed when visiting practices and they all were wrong at how long it would take them to mesh as a cohesive team. I'm certain that pinpointing the problems, addressing issues, planning changes is being done by people way more knowledgeable than either myself or Alsacs just like the staff, players are suffering the impact the most - yup more than even us computer based fan wizards. ;) [/QUOTE]

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