Syracuse Football @CuseFootball
"It's truly a special day for not only our football program, but our institution." - Mark Coyle.
"I appreciate how our football student-athletes have conducted themselves through this transition" - Mark Coyle
"I wanted to make sure we found the best fit for Syracuse fball. Someone with honesty, integrity, innovative & had commitment to winning"
"We've had lots of conversations and we're very pleased with coach Babers and him coming to Syracuse." - A.D. Mark Coyle.
Babers begins by thanking his family, Bowling Green and former mentors to him in the coaching profession.
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Thanks former Hawai'i coach Dick Tomey. Says he taught him to embrace the physical part of football.
Babers thanks Baylor coach Art Briles, whom he calls Grandpa, for changing the way he looks at the game.
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"The tradition here in unbelievable, we're talking about 44. We're talking about Floyd Little, Jim Brown and Ernie Davis." -Babers
"I believe special things are going to happen here. We're going to start something people are going to be talking about for a long time."
"Visualize this. You're in the Dome, the noise is deafening, you have a defense that won't relent ... "You have a special teams that is well coached, you have an offense that wont huddle and will play as fast as you've ever seen." - Babers
Coach Babers speaking about the significance of Pearl Harbor day as he is a Hawai'i native and his father was a Navy veteran.
"We are going to play at a very quick rate. Our excellerated play in all-three phases will give us get an advantage." - coach Babers
"I see fantastic facilities, a private institution with fantastic academics. I think we have a gift." - coach Babers
"We're going to have coaches on the ground recruiting at the end of today, they're on the launching pad ready to go." - coach Babers.