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Message: [QUOTE="CuseMan4, post: 4469611, member: 5564"] It’s hard to predict next season with the transfer portal, who is leaving and staying. Coaching turn over, recruiting not being finished, etc… But you have to like where we stand so far for next year and what is likely coming back, what might be coming back, you know Dino will hit the transfer portal hard and get some good players. If this upcoming off season is anything like last, I like where we are next season. Not to mention the schedule next year isn’t as brutal as this year. That being said I hope Dino succeeds as he is a great guy and great personality. He definitely has his flaws as a coach but he has some great strengths too. But if he were to get canned next year we have to be careful and be realistic here. Dino brought us our first ranking in forever and we were ranked pretty high when Dungey was here and got pretty high this year. We’ve been ranked in 3 separate seasons since he’s been here, which seemed like a damn near impossible feat before he got here. We had our first 6-0 start in decades. And we are getting some really good players and putting a lot of players in the NFL compared to the last 2 decades. That being said you are gonna have games with Dino that are head scratchers, some dumb decisions but you are also gonna get the 6-0 starts, 10-3 seasons, a lot of players drafted and a good representative for the university and city. We have to be realistic and understand we are Syracuse, we aren’t Bama, we aren’t gonna pull an elite level coach. We’ve had 2 seasons now where Dino had us in the top 15. We need to finish stronger for sure, but we can’t expect to consistently every year to compete for Orange bowls or a playoff spot. We need to keep our bad seasons to 6-6 and go bowling and our good reason to 0-3 losses. Majority of seasons we will be 6-6 to 8-4 and every few seasons we get that team that might make a playoff or New Years bowl run. And hell with the new playoff format coming in, we can make some playoff runs. So before we think of firing Dino, think of what he’s done, what he’s capable of doing and think of alternatives, Robinson, Shafer, etc…I think Dino is capable to have a majority of 6-6 to 8-4 seasons and the occasional playoff run with the new format every few seasons….I think we sign up for that in a heartbeat considering where we’ve come from. [/QUOTE]

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