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The thing is, and I think the UNH fans will tell you this; it's not a fair assessment. (and I know where you're going with this) It's not like the situation at BU. We get top talent. UNH doesn't get quite as much, so you can't necessarily blame the coach. You can only "coach up" people so far (just ask Bill Belichick - it's not easy, is it?) At some point you just have to have the talent. The true test would be to give Umile BU's team and see what he does with this. Of course, you could say, "well then he gets off the hook because we will never be able to find out." Or, you could say, "But recruiting is part of the job too."), but I didn't see that game as UNH "blowing" it. What I saw was a BU team that looked like they were on Pluto for the first 30 minutes and then cranked up the intensity after Parker lit into them. There is as much "parity" in the league as ever, so effort makes a huge difference in all of these games. If you look at the scores of all of these quarterfinal games, there were a ridiculous amount of one goal games (even BC had TWO one-goal games with UMass). BU has a lot of talent, and when they come to play they are tough to beat. Problem is, they don't always come to play. This is taking NOTHING away from UNH. But BU DID win four out of five against them this year. And I'm not saying that it was "inevitable," but BU does have a little more talent this year. They have always played in "spurts," and this game was no different. I'm not sure why it is, except that it's difficult to maintain 100% intensity the entire game. 