I don't believe the points are mutually exclusive. The attitude of the UNC board, and their fans here in NC that I have spoken to, seems to be that they win or lose based solely on living up to their own greatness and the opponent is irrelevant in the outcome. Their losing now is causing this uproar over what is wrong and that has consumed the conversation of their board. But if the stars were properly aligned, #2 ranked or not, they would show us our proper place, as our current ascendancy is only an aberration created by their absence from their proper place on top.