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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 38754, member: 204"]
Greg Robinson was clearly not prepared to be a HC when he arrived in 2005.

It's hard to believe that a career football coach could be so unprepared.

That lack of preparation and the timing of the hire, prevented him from bringing in a cohesive staff. And, he had no reference points in the NE - he had no recruiting base at all.

The hiring of Bill Snyder by K-State was based entirely on "preparation" for that particular job.

He was not identified by name, but by coaching position.

The AD at K-State looked for a midwest program that had been turned around. He identified Iowa - a program that had been down for years and had become very competitive program under Hayden Fry.

He knew that Fry  wouldn't leave Iowa for K-State, so he figured he would focus on the two coordinators who worked under Fry, though he had no idea who they were.

One of those coordinators - the OC - Snyder was hired.

Bill Snyder was totally prepared for the job at K-State since he recruited in the midwest and was in the middle of the kind of turnaound at Iowa that K-State would attempt to achieve.

Snyder was prepared for his job. Robinson was not prepared for the Syracuse job.

Marrone on the other hand was very prepared for the Syracuse job.
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