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Message: [QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 1164156, member: 1333"] BTW -- You're unbelievably and historically wrong. Briles took over coaching a team in the Big 12, which was a stacked conference at that time, that hadn't made a bowl game since 1994, hadn't been ranked in the top 25 since 1986, had only won as many as 5 games once since 1995, and had only won 11 total conference games in the 12 previous years. Marrone inherited a team in the Big freaking East. No doubt there were a few decent teams (WVU, Louisville, Cincinnati) but going to a bowl was eminently possible every year. Moreover, during that same period of time from 1994-2008, SU had been to 7 bowl games, winning more than half of them, had won 10 games once, 9 games 3 times, and was under .500 only 4 times. To make the two situations equal, SU would have had to have GERG level teams for the 15 years prior to Marrone taking over instead of ruining this program for only 4 long, horrible years. [/QUOTE]