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[QUOTE="44PRIDE, post: 789436, member: 77"]
I've always considered myself a fan of SU Football above all else.  Every time someone calls us a BBall school, I quote our proud history, number of HOFers, and our National Championship.     If I had to choose one team to follow, it was always the football team...above all else. 
 
But even hardcore football fans have their limits.  And I think I'm starting to reach mine.  
 
HCSS was given a functional program.  But he's guided us t0 3 "Gumpesque" (credit to whoever coined this term) blowout losses that were equal part disfunction and confusion.   For the first time since Gump, I'm sitting here in October longing for the start of Hoops...and that scares me.
 
Something is different with this team...specifically (but not limited to) the coaching staff.   I am seeing "flashes" of ineptitude that take me back to the dark ages.    I see emotion being used to cover confusion.  I see a staff that can't gameplan or make in-game adjustments.   I see a coach that didn't learn from our past.    
 
One of the biggest errors Gump made was to abandon our natural Northeast recruiting grounds.   Marrone did well to re-establish these connections.   Now I see a coach that abandoned all the recruiting gains made by his former boss. 
 
This game against WF is huge.  If after 7 games (and a bye week) this staff cannot execute a functional gameplan with this team, I think they will have lost me.
 
I just can't go through another rebuild.   I don't have it in me.
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