Dan Mullen

[gocraz4dasu]

Well this rumor has officially closed with a whimper… on to the next one

 

[cali315phan]

If you don’t care about bowls then pick another team to supplement your SU fandom. Not being an ass but what do you really expect? Are there any small private schools competing for league championships?

Notre Dame

 

[Cusefan78]

this was posted 12 hours ago

Yes right before Mullen tweeted.

 

[OburgOrange]

 

[Dmcnabbrules]

Notre Dame

Hahahaha. You think Notre Dame is a small private school? They have a freakin deal to with ABC.

 

[atlanticuse]

So was Babers

 

[qdawgg]

Who are these guys?

 

[FreakTalksAboutSU]

This doesn't move me. The University wagon circlers don't move me. We just got rid of a great guy who was a bad Power 5 fit. I don't want another one.

 

[FreakTalksAboutSU]

Who are these guys?

I mean, I'm the top one? Just a dude who talks a lot about Cuse and used to write a little about Cuse

 

[Dmcnabbrules]

News flash no one cares about the twin trees bowl. We want a team that doesn’t get smoked 5 games in a row on national tv. We want a team that doesn’t commit penalties. We want a team that doesn’t kick 50 something yard field goals down 20. Syracuse isn’t just some small school. We are one of the winningest programs in history. So yes the bar should be higher then making the pin stripe bowl.

News flash we are one of the worst P5 programs this century. And I agree the bar should be higher. Which is why the coach was let go.

 

[cali315phan]

Hahahaha. You think Notre Dame is a small private school? They have a freakin deal to with ABC.

I'm aware of their money, but they're a private school that is smaller than Syracuse enrollment wise. We have the ESPN pipeline, I know it's not Notre Dame money, but we have multiple billionaire alumni, Michael Jordans kid went here, his agent went here, 75% of the most influential sports network in America went here and the current president went here. We could make some serious if we actually tried.

 

[Zepharus]

I’ll put it this way: I don’t watch football (of any kind) anymore and I was still glued to this thread all weekend. I understood what was at stake for the future of not just the football program, but all of SU athletics.

Even if Chesney is a success, SU will only serve as a stepping stone.

BINGO. Mullen would likely have ended his career here. trust me at 51 your priorities are very different then up and coming

 

[Dmcnabbrules]

Notre Dame’s endowment is 20 billion dollars with a B.

 

[CuseOnly]

Haven't logged in on this board in a few years at least, I am SHOCKED to see that nothing has changed in the SU hiring process or the fanbase expectations being dashed.

Going to go back to another 3-4 year hiatus.

Groundhog day...

 

[Yeti]

So was Babers

But he won the League For Blind Men!

 

[cali315phan]

Notre Dame’s endowment is 20 billion dollars with a B.

And our annual budgets are almost identical. I'm not expecting to be Notre Dame, but it is possible to be a private school and care about football

 

[swish7]

BINGO. Mullen would likely have ended his career here. trust me at 51 your priorities are very different then up and coming

Chesney being successfull here would be a good problem to have

 

[richmondcuse03]

I’ll be happy if the money allocated / donated for Mullen gets reinvested in NIL instead. Upping our NIL game will matter more to be honest. If it’s chesney and he lands some great talent in portal through proper NIL investment, fans will come around.

 

[mscanlo]

I'm aware of their money, but they're a private school that is smaller than Syracuse enrollment wise. We have the ESPN pipeline, I know it's not Notre Dame money, but we have multiple billionaire alumni, Michael Jordans kid went here, his agent went here, 75% of the most influential sports network in America went here and the current president went here. We could make some serious if we actually tried.

FWIW, I’ve heard some “mid” tier SEC schools question if they can even keep up with the “top 10” elite football schools. People are starting to realize it’s not just boosters and tv money that make the schools elite, but fanbase, game day atmosphere, corporate sponsorship (that was new to me in being a big deal), etc.

 

[CIL]

We are lucky someone didn’t post a rumor about Sean Payton coming here or a quarter of you would be dangling from your ceiling fans right now.

 

[Cusefan78]

Chesney being successfull here would be a good problem to have

Chances of that are a lot less than odds of Mullen. They don’t have time to chance it.

 

[CU44SE]

All weekend there was smoke. A lot of it. Matt Barrie continued to poke at Dan Mullen. I assume that was not the first Syracuse related twitter message Mullen received.

But it was never communicated before that he was not or would not become the next Syracuse coach. Why at midnight Sunday night is he finally acknowledging and stating he won’t be the head coach at Syracuse?

My only guess, Syracuse came back and told him he wasn’t the selection or couldn’t offer him what he was looking for. Typical Syracuse. You have a big time college coach on a silver platter. And you either cant deliver or refuse to deliver. Every time Syracuse has an opportunity to go big and prove everyone wrong, they go small.

When you continue to go small, you fall behind. And we will look back one day when we are left behind and ask ourselves how it all happened. Let’s just face it, this school is just not serious about sports.

 

[GoSU96]

He’s got to have some sort of serious contacts. Agents or something.

It’s Jimmy sexton’s dog.

 

[Cusefan78]

We are lucky someone didn’t post a rumor about Sean Payton coming here or a quarter of you would be dangling from your ceiling fans right now.

This university will never drive ppl to that. We will just continue to walk away.

 

[Zepharus]

He’ll pull out a possum and try convincing us it’s a rabbit.

Chesney being successfull here would be a good problem to have

Big if... and IF he has success he will get plucked and we are back to square 1