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[QUOTE="SUFan44, post: 2975163, member: 39"]
Over a 5-year span, all of these conference schedules should even out - these records don't include ACC Tournament play which is more random.

Syracuse has given back games to a lot of teams they don't or shouldn't normally give them back to over the last 5 years. Why should expectations be downgraded? That doesn't make any sense to me. Comparative to the rest of the league, we are 8th in overall record. Schedule being hard didn't have an affect on us in the Big East, did it?

According to Basketball Reference, we had the 15th toughest schedule in the country in 2011-12 -- we went 34-3. The next year we had the 12th toughest schedule and went 30-10. In 2010-11, we went 27-8 with the 16th toughest schedule in the country. In 2008-09, we went 28-10 with the 3rd (THIRD) toughest schedule in the country. I understand you are using the actual rating number, but shouldn't that be relative to the rest of the country too?

Louisville and Notre Dame both have better records than Syracuse over the last 5 years in ACC play and they came from the same place. We were consistently ahead of one of them in the old conference, and every other year ahead of the other over the last 5 years in the Big East.

The bottom line is the product on the court is not nearly as good. The offense stinks, the defense this year regressed with the same players as last year. The players aren't getting better. I could go on.
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