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Message: [QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 4533014, member: 2196"] Curious what you think. Coaches move around the country all the time. But (in my opinion) coaches are less likely to move to a school with an unstable coach when making lateral moves. Dino has 2 coaching years left on his contract. I dont want to speak for you, but if I think we can agree, that second year can be thrown away. I say that because no coach is ever left to coach their final season. It is terrible to recruit players, recruit coaches. No one will commit to a coach with 1 season left on his contract. That would be program sucide. Therefore, imo Babers is either fired after this year (if we dont make a bowl game) or he is signed to a contract extension. The extension would most likely have a much smaller buyout because Babers has less leverage due to the lack of consistence success. You sign big contracts with Big buyouts when you are popular and other teams want you, and you sign smaller contracts with small buyouts when the program isn’t sure what to do with you. Therefore, any coach coming to join Syracuse would have to look at Dino and the reality that he either has 1 year or 3 or more years left at Syracuse. 2 years may be what he has left on his contract, but is not what the reality of the past has shown us. That is quite a gamble for any coach to take if they are in a comfortable situation at their current program. It would be difficult because there were rumors about him this year being fired if we didn’t make a bowl. Then he comes out and fires off 6 straight wins, to then only lose 6 straight games and being mentioned as on the hot seat again. Many assistants can look at Syracuse and agree, that if we have another down year and do not make a bowl game, Babers would most likely be fired with a year to go on his contract. Therefore, they are guaranteed at minimum one year of coaching. And if that year goes well, then Dino is most likely extended because coache’s are never on 1 year contracts. I think because of this, it will be a very difficult task to get above average coaches to finish off our staff. That is probably part of what chip West is looking for. Some guarantees and some money to stay. WF and Clawson are extremely comfortable due to the success they have had their. [/QUOTE]

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