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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4135804, member: 181"] I selectively quoted without putting words in your mouth by making changes. Players come in as teenagers and leave in their young 20s. Coaches may last a few years or several decades. I've always regarded the Head Coach as the focal point within college basketball, and in contemplating this team's ceiling, everything is predicated on Danny Hurley having his best season ever. He and his staff are the agents who activate, harness, and guide the players to reach the various potentials that have been identified here, and to do so in a way that meshes their skills and temperaments individually and collectively. It is very very difficult for any team to win 6 consecutive games against (mostly) unfamiliar competition that (by design and for the most part) gets increasingly more difficult with each game. Every year there's a team that does it, because, as has been said here many times, "Somebody has to do it." The most goofy, fun, and (at best) calming question is, "Why not us?" I don't think there's anywhere near 75 teams that could ask that rhetorical question as though it's a literal one. And I do think that whatever a more realistic small number could pose such a question, we are rooting for one of those teams. We go into Big East play realistically thinking that we're pretty good, versatile, currently compromised by significant injuries, and already demonstrating progress in addressing some of our already identified challenges and growth opportunities. The best teams are doing much the same. The team looks very much worth watching. I can see great possibility, offer no predictions, and wish that I can feel confident within curious uncertainty 1 month, 2 months, and 3 months from now. [/QUOTE]

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