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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4559125, member: 37"] I took issue with a statement someone made that we control our destiny. Our 2011 and 2014 teams proved that teams with the higher probability of winning did not succeed in that outcome. Heck an argument could be made for 1999 otherwise "Shock the World" would not have taken off. Stated differently we removed the control of those higher seeds destiny. The only thing a team can do is influence its potential to have a positive or negative outcome. Outcomes are never a guaranteed and yet fans continuously behave as if it should be. We are set up to be in as good a position to go far as any team in the country. Part of that position is the result that there is no team overwhelmingly better than the next 10 or even 30 teams. That was not in our control. What is in our control is we have figured out ways to minimize our vulnerabilities that were exposed during that January slump. It's far better we became aware of them in January than to have someone expose them during tournament time. [/QUOTE]