I’m not a fan of his, but Dino looks like a steal compared to what some of these other coaches make. I’d rather keep Dino and put money into facilities/assistants rather than pay a premium (buyout+salary) for another coach who is unproven and comes with significant baggage.
Generally speaking I agree. The problem is...
Dino has already proven he cannot evaluate HS talent. I get not bringing in 4-5 star kids. I don't expect that. The problem is his 2-3 star kids are not ACC level.
He cannot build an competent OL.
He will not hold players accountable for penalties. We do not have the talent to overcome that. Can't be putting yourself in a hole. Look at Wake. They lack talent and run more plays than anyone, yet they are usually at the top of the conference in least penalties.
Our players and team never seem to get better as the year goes on. We need our lower level talent to be maximized by the coaching.
Can anyone really say we are well coached, or that our staff out coaches the other sideline?
We have 2-3 complete no show games a year. One if fine, but not 2 or 3.
We have no O identity. We keep changing things which does not help. What have we had 5 different OCs in 8 years? For an O HC that should not happen. There should be some consistency in system.
He has only had 2 out of 8 ACC seasons where he had 3 or more Ws. Still has a shot this year to be fair. It is actually pretty hard to be as bad as we have.
And he is 23-51 (.311) vs P5 teams. That is awful. On top of that he has 3 G5 Ls (although two of those were pretty good teams).
No one is going to come in and make SU a yearly ACC contender. But we need someone who is going to maximize our potential. Dino has proven he CANNOT do that.