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Message: [QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 2721406, member: 225"] I'm with Fairfax; Pitt was unacceptable, both because of who they are, the lead we blew, and it is Year 3. I give the D a pass for Clemson. Yeah, they get a full ride through college to enter a game on the final drive and keep the opposition from driving the full length of the field and scoring... Well, reading what I just wrote maybe I give them just a little pass instead of a full pass. But it was hot, it was Clemson, etc etc But today? No. The offense did enough to win. The D had over an hour of weather delay to rest, listen to iTunes, pretend to pay attention to position coaches, or whatever they do in the locker room for an hour during the middle of the game. If I am the AD, I want my team to...at least by Year 3 in a coach's tenure... win the games against the "peer schools." In the old Big East, that used to be everybody. Currently...for me at least...it is most teams not named Clemson or FSU because those schools treat football like they do in the SEC. Louisville is also possibility in that group because they treat academics like the SEC. Certainly Pitt is our peer, Certainly, BC , Certainly Wake. Certainly Duke. Probably NCSt and I can't even believe that I used the word "probably" If you coach at Michigan, part of your job description is beating OSU. If you coach at USC, I assume part of your job description is beating UCLA. You get the point. If you coach at Syracuse, beating Pitt is part of your job description. Not because they are good but rather because if you have really turned the program around, that is what you get paid for. They are a peer. You compete for many of the same recruits. You sure as heck shouldn't blow a late lead. If you coach at SU in Year 3 of your tenure, part of your job description is beating Pitt. I don't get emotionally attached to coaches. Heck I thought Maloney should have had the opportunity to recruit using the Dome as a tool. But I'm an alum/fan. AD's have their own metrics and I would bet that beating peer schools is part of that. This is one Dino needed to win. [/QUOTE]

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