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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 1945408, member: 6927"] Yeesh. Maybe ease up a little. Playing a tougher OOC schedule doesn't immunize against an off game. DePaul's nonconference SOS may be second only to UConn's, but it didn't keep them from having an off night against Temple. Last year, even with a more rigorous OOC, USF still suffered a "bad" loss to Memphis in AAC play. It's easy to throw stones at a coach in retrospect after a disappointing loss. But these bold statements of cause-and-effect are just speculative at best. USF, in a relative sense, may have lost even more than UConn did: 3 of their top 4 scorers, including their all-time leading rebounder and the 8th overall pick in the draft, not to mention that a returning two-year starter is hobbled by injury and played only 2 minutes in this game. I say "relative" because the level of talent that USF had waiting in the wings to replace its graduation losses is just nowhere near what UConn had. [/QUOTE]