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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 2721152, member: 225"] My loyalty is to my Alma Mater, first and foremost. I'm neither on nor off the Dino bandwagon. He seems to have made strides in some areas but not in others. He seems like a good guy, maybe a more polished and eloquent version of Coach Mac and I hope he succeeds. But that is not because my ego is tied to Dino; rather because if Dino does well, SU does well. I never bought into the "belief without evidence" thing. That's fine as a religious philosophy but not for someone who is making millions of dollars every year in a job. If a manager that reported to me used that line when I hired him/her, the first thing I would have said was "let's get this clear; I don't believe anything but results." The issue is never "who else could I get if I replaced this guy" but rather "does this person merit keeping this job and this (big) salary". Every executive worth his or her salt is confident that they could replace an underperformer with a better performer. Every successful AD is too. None of that is to say that his seat is hot. That is for his boss to decide at the end of the season. He has recruited what appears to be some young talent with good potential and that gives me hope. But I am an evidence guy. After 4-8, 4-8 there has to be real growth in a macro sense and not merely in small areas. The sky isn't falling for me; I was a student during Ben's downward spiral years and watching SU lose a close one to even the likes of Pitt can't compare to sitting in puddles on the cold concrete steps of Archbold in the rain while watching Ben run up the middle on 4th and long. It kind of gives a guy a sense of perspective. At the end of the day, P5 football isn't an extracurricular activity and has not been one for a very, very long time. It is the entertainment division of the University, a big business, and it has long since dropped any façade of being about being a part of the educational mission of the university. As such, the coach will have to justify his salary by winning, putting butts in the seats, causing alums to donate $$$ to the athletic dept or failing that their old academic department. Dino knows the score. I hope he succeeds. I hope I see the evidence. [/QUOTE]

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