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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 5629973, member: 225"]
And yet, over on the football board, many are quick to accept the loss of a single player as justification for:

1. a 3-win season
2. the worst loss in over 100 years
3. being blown out at home by a 1-10 BC team
4. one of the worst defenses in the ACC for two years running (to be fair, Fran addressed that issue after the season)
5. a QB room...all on NIL$, mind you...that appears to have been put together by Homer Simpson. (In Red's defense, at least he brought in Betsy and White as backups, and usually one of them is playing OK. Football? Well, no need to rehash that nightmare.)
6. almost no discernable adjustments on offense to cover for #5 after Angeli went down.

Red also lost Freeman and JJ for parts of last year, some of it at the same time.

Injuries can, and sometimes do, derail a season in a 5-man sport where the injury is to your best player. The difference between hoops and football is that Fran had a 10-win season in his pocket and Red has (justifiably) yet to earn the benefit of the doubt.
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