Report: McDonald to WolfPack

[TheCusian]

Shafer needs to start acting like a head coach and hire better coaches instead of his MAC buddies...

Like Doust and Bullough?! You can try to shoehorn them all into one pile if you want - but some of those guys are really, really good coaches. And the list of MAC coaches that went on to huge jobs is pretty long.

 

[Alsacs]

If McDonald poaches from our class then I don't care about Scott Shafer-David Doeren relationship as Doeren would clearly be saying "sorry Scott all is fair in love and war." Scott Shafer should be coaching for his job in 2015 and this class is supposed to be a depth class.

 

[Finwad32]

Like Doust and Bullough?! You can try to shoehorn them all into one pile if you want - but some of those guys are really, really good coaches. And the list of MAC coaches that went on to huge jobs is pretty long.

Everybody starts somewhere.

 

[Alsacs]

So if Daoust goes to Pitt we will be losing two of our top 3 recruiters. Please give Bobby Acosta a raise as he will be our best recruiter on the staff.

We all knew McDonald was likely gone, but I don't think anybody thought he would go to a school like NC State and that he would leave before NSD. Coaches who are under contract unless they are moving the ladder don't typically leave right before NSD just to be fair to the current employers and their recruiting classes.

 

[cuseguy]

PLEASE...give it a rest.
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It must be awful waking up every day in a world filled with doom and gloom.

8-4 next year!!

Better???

 

[Finwad32]

So if Daoust goes to Pitt we will be losing two of our top 3 recruiters. Please give Bobby Acosta a raise as he will be our best recruiter on the staff.

We all knew McDonald was likely gone, but I don't think anybody thought he would go to a school like NC State and that he would leave before NSD. Coaches who are under contract unless they are moving the ladder don't typically leave right before NSD just to be fair to the current employers and their recruiting classes.

It reeks of an emotional decision. And as Millhouse and JoeSU put it, there's a fair chance that he put himself in a situation where there wasn't a better opportunity out there. He's going to a conference opponent, that by and large many on this forum would consider our lesser.

 

[GoSU96]

While I agree on the surface...coaches at Private schools (STA) often piss off public HS coaches in their area. They need to vet to see if Casullo is respected by opposing coaches in Dade/Broward Counties.

Wouldn't the same apply to NJ for example.

 

[RMH44]

So if Daoust goes to Pitt we will be losing two of our top 3 recruiters. Please give Bobby Acosta a raise as he will be our best recruiter on the staff.

We all knew McDonald was likely gone, but I don't think anybody thought he would go to a school like NC State and that he would leave before NSD. Coaches who are under contract unless they are moving the ladder don't typically leave right before NSD just to be fair to the current employers and their recruiting classes.

It might have been his only option. We'll probably never know the back story.

 

[Deano]

Like Doust and Bullough?! You can try to shoehorn them all into one pile if you want - but some of those guys are really, really good coaches. And the list of MAC coaches that went on to huge jobs is pretty long.

Yeah this guy turned out to be pretty good too, name might just ring a bell -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Saban

 

[kcsu]

We all knew this when he was demoted. It is too bad that he is going to the ACC but it is what it is. Scott needs to take this as an opportunity to hire the very best recruiter that he can find. Someone with great connections in south florida that will bring it. Im not sure if RC is the correct hire or not but we need to hit a home run with this hire.

 

[Alsacs]

It reeks of an emotional decision. And as Millhouse and JoeSU put it, there's a fair chance that he put himself in a situation where there wasn't a better opportunity out there. He's going to a conference opponent, that by and large many on this forum would consider our lesser.

NC State isn't lesser they are on our level. It is a lateral move its just him leaving right before NSD is what is messed up and if he is doing this to spite Shafer/SU that is on Scott Shafer as he was his subordinate and should have more respect for his employer and common courtesy.

 

[CuseLegacy]

So if Daoust goes to Pitt we will be losing two of our top 3 recruiters. Please give Bobby Acosta a raise as he will be our best recruiter on the staff.

We all knew McDonald was likely gone, but I don't think anybody thought he would go to a school like NC State and that he would leave before NSD. Coaches who are under contract unless they are moving the ladder don't typically leave right before NSD just to be fair to the current employers and their recruiting classes.

I disagree. If you don't think that all these coaches move and make this announcements before NSD then you don't pay to much attention to the coaching carousel that is going on right now.

 

[GoSU96]

McDonald is just a year ahead of the other assistants in looking for a new job.

A true lateral move. I wonder if they matched is Asst/Assoc HC bonus as a position coach.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Stephen Bailey ‏@Stephen_Bailey1
Can confirm that George McDonald is headed to North Carolina State to coach wide receivers, per source. Syracuse travels to Raleigh in 2015.

 

[Bill Orange]

Maybe Shafer hasn't gotten out of bed yet.

Not his best day.

And it's his birthday today. Ouch.

 

[Alsacs]

I disagree. If you don't think that all these coaches move and make this announcements before NSD then you don't pay to much attention to the coaching carousel that is going on right now.

During the actual coaching carousel season I would agree with you, but now I don't think there are any HC openings left. We all knew McDonald was leaving, but I assumed he was fulfilling his contract with SU and was waiting till after NSD to maintain the recruiting class we have.


Also unrelated is Eric While going to go to NC State as well?

 

[Finwad32]

NC State isn't lesser they are on our level. It is a lateral move its just him leaving right before NSD is what is messed up and if he is doing this to spite Shafer/SU that is on Scott Shafer as he was his subordinate and should have more respect for his employer and common courtesy.

On our level right now maybe.

It may be messed up, so was the way he cried like a baby to every media outlet that would listen when the demotion occured. He showed his lack of respect and common courtesy then.

 

[oldpinepoint]

On our level right now maybe.

It may be messed up, so was the way he cried like a baby to every media outlet that would listen when the demotion occured. He showed his lack of respect and common courtesy then.

Lack of professionalism

 

[Finwad32]

Lack of professionalism

Better said.

 

[Dnyr85]

This hire has got to be about recruiting only imho. Frisman Jackson from what I had seen and heard/read was doing a good job with the receivers there.

 

[OrangePA]

Shafer needs to start acting like a head coach and hire better coaches instead of his MAC buddies...

Didn't Urban Meyer coach in the MAC.

Didn't Randy Walker coach in the MAC.

Didn't Don James coach in the MAC.

Didn't Terry Hoeppner coach in the MAC.

The fact is that some very good coaches came from that conference.

 

[cuseinchina]

So if Daoust goes to Pitt we will be losing two of our top 3 recruiters. Please give Bobby Acosta a raise as he will be our best recruiter on the staff.

We all knew McDonald was likely gone, but I don't think anybody thought he would go to a school like NC State and that he would leave before NSD. Coaches who are under contract unless they are moving the ladder don't typically leave right before NSD just to be fair to the current employers and their recruiting classes.

I don't get why anyone would be even a little bit surprised to see him leave before national signing day. His ONLY value is in recruiting so he obviously needs to nail down a job when those services are still in play and have some immediate value. It's what he did when he came here and it seems that has been his MO in past moves as well.

I wish him luck in managing to remove the mt Everest sized chip from his shoulder.

 

[cuseguy]

This hire has got to be about recruiting only imho. Frisman Jackson from what I had seen and heard/read was doing a good job with the receivers there.

He was hired at SU for recruiting purposes.

Shafer tried to appease him and keep him here longer than he might have by making him the OC, but it backfired.

 

[javadoc]

@ThayerEvansSI
Syracuse WRs coach George McDonald has accepted the same position at North Carolina State per source.

This will be a great experiment with good controls. Let's see how well he recruits at NC State - that will be a good measure of our program and its current perception, and quite possibly a wake-up call for some on this forum.

 

[Whitey23]

The PS guys are all over it. They taste blood in the water.

stuff like this:

@MinkNate
Was told Andrew Spence, CB from Florida, probably not impacted by McDonald leaving. But, I mean, it's not like any papers have been signed.