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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2704153, member: 780"] Four games into the season with wins against OK competition and the nervous Nancies are worrying about he coach leaving. Relax. Even if he is successful here, I don't think he's moving up. Not because he wouldn't do it, but because there won't be a lot of demand at "higher levels" of CFB for what Babers brings to the party. He's a very clever guy and an inspirational leader. And that seems exactly right for bringing SU out of it's long sleep. We need strategies and tactics that work against teams with better athletes than ours until we can get better athletes. We need to coax super effort out of our players. Schools at the top of the college heap don't need that. They play pretty much straight up and depend on superior athletes. They don't need to wring extraordinary effort out of the 5 Stars they have. These guys are good enough with just regular effort. They need precision using a standard approach to football. You won't see Alabama "playing fast" anytime soon. A school that would be interested in a "turn-around" specialist like Babers is sitting at the bottom of their conference and wants to move up. He has shown he can do that. But why would Babers move to yet another "turn around" situation? He's got to know that part of doing this is luck or things outside his control. Sooner or later, the magic will not work and then he'll be on a hot seat somewhere as several of his predecessors were before him. Syracuse is an extremely good situation for Babers. Real expectations are pretty low and I think the working conditions are good. I'm basing that on how few coaches move on from here. SU has had a handful of football, basketball and lacrosse coaches in the very long time I have been a fan. Something in the water must be keeping them here. (I know we have "churned" some football coaches lately, but looking at the whole athletic department coaching stability is one of its hallmarks.) Dino is just starting to feel the momentum shift. I'm guessing that he sense a different feel when he talks to recruits and the people who advise recruits. Other than playing for the always-on-top schools, nothing is better than playing for an up and comer. He's got the ball rolling. "Moving Up" is an exhilarating feeling. If he can get SU into the top third of the ACC, he'll be seen as a hero here and a miracle worker everywhere. But until he shows he can stay on top (vs building a program), the market for his services will be much smaller than some SU fans think it might be. And the schools that come calling first will be much less attractive opportuntities. [/QUOTE]

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