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Message: [QUOTE="PoppyHart, post: 38426, member: 515"] It seems that Marrone is going to be perpetually referenced in comparison to GROB, and given the threshold that the latter set, there's a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts of that he will succeed and enjoy a long tenure as head coach. One of GROB's glaring weaknesses was his lack of game/clock management skills, which led to a handful of inexplicable losses. Marrone has stabilized this area, and found away to pull out (more than?) his fair share of squeakers. That difference alone can explain why a team goes 6-6 as opposed to 4-8. Perhaps there are other significant explanations, such as the talent level of players brought in, but it seems as if Marrone has merely grabbed the low hanging fruit that GROB left, and done little more to instill dreams of a return to the "glory years" of 1987-2002. Pasqualoni inherited a thriving program, and he ran with it to extreme early success. He suffered a grand total of one losing season, and led his team to a tie for first place in the BE in the year he was fired. His reward was being fired. If GROB had 4-5 years of 6-6-type seasons, presumably AD Gross would have issued a similar pink slip, as he had already set the precedent that mediocrity is not acceptable. Now that Marrone has returned the team to statistical mediocrity, I think it's time to start comparing him on an apples-to-apples basis to Pasqualoni, and not with the favorable biases that accompany following GROB. Instead, there's talk of "1 step back, 2 steps forward", being handicapped by poor facilities, etc... Isn't year 1 supposed to be the "step back" year? At some point such qualifications ring hollow. I think by now the caveats should be discarded, and the clock should be running comparison-free. [/QUOTE]

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