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[QUOTE="timkay99, post: 5129509, member: 635"]
I would say the infrastructure, the coach is definitely a part of that.  It isn't like new facilities just got built once Fran was hired.  Part of the growth of the program under Dino's 8 years, but not sure how you can separate that from the head of the program.

To use the last 2 years before a coach came in, much different inheriting a team that went to back to back bowl games vs. a team that went 3-9 and 4-8.  It still took Dino 2 years after Shafer was gone to get more than 4 wins, so there was some level of coaching/injury luck/recruiting/player development to work with Dungey magic to get the 10 wins.

Team plateaued under Shafer just like it plateaued under Dino.  The base Fran has to work with and the impact talent he brought in to complement from the portal, would argue expectations are higher than a bowl game and exceed the pre-season expectations of any year in recent Syracuse memory except entering 2019.

Either way, transfer portal does it make it difficult to assess, so much more power to re-shape a roster quickly nowadays.
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