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[QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 4843056, member: 860"]
I'm with you 100% on the recruiting concerns.  I guess the potential counter to that is that a lot of our depth right now is guys with mid-major and FCS offers, but the difference with Chesney is he's got a proven ability to develop and coach those type of guys to compete against FBS talent.  If he can figure out recruiting, so much the better.

I've actually gone in the other direction.  I was lukewarm on him at first, but after thinking about what he's done at HC, I think he's our guy.  He gets the private school dynamic, he knows the recruiting limitation of the northeast, he's proven to be able to build a program in spite of significant headwinds, and he has coached up lesser talent to be able to compete above their level.  Those last two things were the biggest knocks on Dino over the last few years.

No matter who we hire they'll have some open questions.  Recruiting is Chesney's.  But let's be honest with ourselves, nobody we hire is going to start bringing Top 20 recruiting classes to Syracuse.  If Bob can figure out how to land Top 40 classes and coach them up as well as he has at Holy Cross, we will get where we all want to be.
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