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Message: [QUOTE="Delmar, post: 1770254, member: 3944"] There is no science or predictability to this. If we lose to Virginia, Mali is back. The cost of a Final Four is you lose some of your talent that you thought would be around longer. There is absolutely no way to plan for that. Look at Duke last year. They became an also-ran (and a good thing too, because without the win at Cameron, we are NIT bound) because they won the tourney the year before. There is some comfort in knowing that every program is in the same boat. Last year's team wouldn't have made the Sweet 16 ten years ago. We are extremely fortunate to have a coaching staff that gets the most out of the talent at hand (even though I wish he would go 9 or 10 deep). Going to the Final Four last year may have been JB's greatest achievement, but it cost us Mali. That's the way it works. [/QUOTE]