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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 4798177, member: 229"]
I get what you're saying and I agree with you that he wanted people he thought would build a long winning  program at Syracuse.  People that knew the school.  Loved the school.  Those are all great qualities.  Totally understand that.

It's boring and it's not what Syracuse needs in hoops or in football to re-energize a base and a program.  Red to his credit has re-energized the base a little bit and that's because he made some splash recruiting wins.  That's what football needs, a homerun name brand who's gonna come in and land some studs right out of the gate - what Prime did.  That will re-energize the base guaranteed.

I just don't have faith that Wildhack is going to do that.  He's someone I see as a old way thinking corporate guy.  Conservative and safe.

I wouldn't mind if he called Marrone but we're probably looking at guys like John Reagen or Justin Outten (I kid).  The fact that there is no true Red means he might be forced to think outside the box.  I just hope it's a forward thinking out of the box guy.  A guy like Lincoln Riley when he was at ODU or a guy like Prime.  People need to dump the old way thinking.  Open up the bank and go get someone that's going to get a wow reaction and turn some heads and get the base fired up that you mean business.  That's the only way to inject life into recruiting and sell some tickets.

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Gonna add - the Holy Cross guy might be an amazing coach.  But the base is going to yawn and you're not going to see an uptick in sales.  People will sit back and wait.  It's the chicken or the egg and you're in the same vicious cycle.  The Prime mention was just an example of what a big splash hire can do.  It was the same uptick that Nebraska saw with Ruhle.
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