41.   Call it another turn in what has become an increasingly frustrating learning curve for this talented team.

42.   Coach Paul Silas did not have the most talented team in the conference, but the offensive firepower and depth was, and still is, undeniable.

43.   Coaches who squeeze a few extra victories out of moderately talented teams win awards.

44.   Coach Gene Keady has a good team, a talented team, but Clemson is deeper and may be just as talented.

45.   Even without quarterback Dan Marino, who was recuperating from a hip injury and arthroscopic knee surgery, the Dolphins are by far the more talented team.

46.   Few coaching tasks are as complicated as taking a talented team and making it worth the sum of its parts.

47.   For a talented team, the Indians have shown signs of vapor lock during this long march.

48.   For most of the last two weeks, Grunfeld has watched the talented team he put together take its baby steps.

49.   For a team as talented as UCLA, that is a potentially potent mix.

50.   Fortunately for Lagasse, NBC was smart enough to hire a talented team of real actors to make up for his shortcomings.