Honestly, I’ve gotten to the point where I hope that we lose every single game (including Wagner and UCONN) just to get Dino fired.
He’s probably not going to get fired if he has one of his typical 5-7 or 4-8 seasons. And if he has a 6-6 season-oh, God, that’ll get him a 3-5 year extension.
I respect your right to an opinion. You have made clear where you stand should Dino have a losing record and I think you hold true with a .500 record. Assume he has the following records, how would you handle HCDB's employment?
12-0
11-1
10-2
9-3
8-4
7-5
Do you factor in:
- two consecutive chancellors who cared little to nothing for the Athletics Department?
- two bad football hires, both with bad timing issues
- the fact that SU is a private school and neither cannot nor will not recklessly fund infrastructure for which it cannot readily afford
-an AD that is actually run correctly and gives back to the host university most years (if universities ADs were held to SEC standards, few would be allowed to stay in business!)
And that is just the start. I am not a fool, HCDB has work to do. Yet I recognize the above, that he came to Syracuse when it was down, with few P5 players, recruited depth, developed young talent, has less flashy facilities, no bagmen with money to throw at players, he does not take kids to strip joints to sign them, he does not use cheerleaders as recruiting w*****, he plays by the rules, his team attends classes, earns degrees(see academic mission of the university), he is good with the public, good with donors, and he assembled a good staff.
Personally, outside of abject failure, I am willing to give him a couple years. I know from whence he came with the program and we are light years ahead of where we were. We have a ways to go, yet this staff is proven. The D is solid, has been and is built to continue rolling. The O has some tools and now has proven coaches, they will only improve.
I know why you are frustrated, I recall the glory years. I want them, too. HCDB has been rebuilding the football house of Syracuse brick by brick, unfortunately, it takes time. Hang tough one more season before making the call. Let the facts speak for themselves, then weigh then en toto, not with simple cherry-picked stats.