I really don't understand how SU went from being a powerhouse for 10 to 15 years to being absolutely the worst team in a major conference over the past 4 seasons. A lot of it is Greg Robinson's fault (he obviously sucks as a coach and a recruiter) but not all of it can be. The program was in serious decline before he even got here. Obviously he should be fired, and it probably couldn't hurt to do it immediately, but I have little or no hope that the next coach (whomever he is) will be able to turn this program around and restore it to its former glory.
If Mike had gone to the draft you would've had to do a "Funny or Douchey: Mike wearing a bag on his head" because that is what last place gets in my fantasy football league.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened was a slick Marketer was offered an Athletic Director job because he was an assistant to the guy that hired Pete Carroll. That guy turned around fired a bad coach and hired not the most qualified of candidates, but rather the one that reminded him most of...Pete Carroll.
That coach was nothing like Pete Carroll (other than being overly positive in his press conferences) just like Syracuse is nothing like Los Angeles (other than its percentage of rich snobs amongst the population).
Can Syracuse football be turned around? Sure, bigger rebuilding jobs have been done and in an eight team conference and some fertile High School football pipelines (Central NY being an underrated one). Syracuse can be back to the top 25ish program that was around when we were in school.
It will take a Sarah Palin-esque hire to get the excitement back and whomever gets hired must be a recruiter first with good assistants who can develop those recruits.
Will it be done next year? No, could it be done in four or five years? Yes.