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Message: [QUOTE="HarrisonJBounel, post: 1126282, member: 1760"] With all respect, I did not miss your point. It's not just Alabama and Florida State that put players in the pros. Teams like Syracuse lose seniors, and a lot of their best players to graduation every year. To your point, did we get hurt by graduation - yes, absolutely. But I suspect because you know our team better than the rest of the other teams, you feel we are particularly hurt by graduation. Maybe so, but if you look closely at other teams, as closely as you look at SU, you will find, more often than not, that those other teams were stung by graduation losses as well. Sure, the top-flight teams are in a better position to replace losses, but there are really only a handful of those. Teams of Syracuse's caliber got hit and hurt, too, even if the seniors didn't go to the pros. But life has to go on. That is the breathing in and breathing out of college sports. [/QUOTE]