I would love to see Dino, Beck and Schmidt together make some in home visits to a couple high end transfer Oline and WRs and TE and share a vision of the offense the next couple of years. If we can just add a few more pieces. We could be a full season top 20.
It of course gives anyone problems. The question is how big is the problem.
Plenty teams with plenty injuries. Some with more some with less.
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as Bees says.. Had we just had the DT and the LB and a few other issues we would have been fine. But we lost the Fb and the QB and 3 oline and the DTs and the Corner and the LB and the backup LB all a the same time.
This is exactly why I didn’t mention the fans. That’s a lot to ask for.
That’s the point the University has to feel our anger. The fans proved that they will fill the Dome when we have at least a competitive team like this year. The University screwed over the SUAD for years when money earned from sports was put in the University slush fund. That sent us to the Stone age facility wise and it’s been catch up since. If the University isn’t going to fully commit what’s the point? Syracuse brings in close to $30m a year. I would love to know where that goes? I don’t need to tell you, the difference between the halves and have nots has already started. What’s the point if we’re not committed to compete. I guarantee if this was the basketball teams and JB was asking for more it would get done.
I understand the frustration. Im frustrated too. What is the point? I love the game too much not to watch. The team is gonna get my support regardless of the outcome of games but I get it. Every man has a breaking point.
That’s great, but that is just catch up to what programs have had for years. This is nothing that’s going to separate us, it’s something that was drastically needed.
No. We'll just assume nobody has it worse than us.
Serious question. When is the last time we haven’t had devastating , season altering injuries? Losing Thompson, Lockett, Elmore, and Jones before we got to October was crushing, especially Lockett. Throw in Williams later in the year that’s 4 season ending ACL’s all at home with relatively little contact. I get if it was just this season, but this is every single year. It’s almost like the 4 or 5 false starts a game. These things don't happen at other places. Either we are just very unlucky, or there is an underlying issue. The false start stuff is another topic in it's own right.
I don't understand the "here's everything that's wrong with the team I care about" mentality. The team had a winning season, and huge efforts have already been made and are continuing to be made modernize facilities and operations. What else can you really ask for?
I'm not complaining about the past though. I'm complaining about the present where we just lost our OC and DC after a 7-5 year. You would hope if both coordinators would be poached we would have had at least 9 wins. That's why I was saying expectations should have been raised after a 6-0 start. I'm also saying paying elite coordinators under $1m isn't going to cut it anymore. With all the money these programs are bringing in assistant salary pools are just going to continue to increase. We have several things working against us, at least overpaying to keep top talent is something we can do. I know it won't happen, and nothing will change. We can celebrate getting to 6 wins and making a mid tier bowl every 5 years.
I can only speak for myself. In my “real life” I have a ton of stresses not limited to finishing my career on a high note, paying for my kid to go to college, finishing paying off my mortgage, getting my kid to every practice on time, keeping the Mrs happy which never ends, and getting old enough to realize I’m not immortal. My sports are my passion, and my escape. I KNOW that my hometown and Alma Mater have struggled for what seems like forever. I like to come and share my Cuse thoughts, triumphs, and despair with a bunch of like minded strangers to feel a sense of community. When it becomes an atmosphere of complete negativity it makes my escape something I don’t need I’m my life. I’m not saying everything needs to be positive, but some are just doom and gloom at all times and they get out on ignore and I carry on. That’s just my $.02, and what I think when I see the above comment.
The modernization of the facilities is just catch up to what our P5 peers have had for years now. Everything we do is reactive. Not being able to keep assistants for lateral moves is what I’m asking to be fixed our we’re always going to be 2 steps behind hoping for mediocrity. I guess it’s fine if people just hope for 6 wins and make some low tier bowl, but I invest too much time and money to be happy about a 6-0 start with a 1-5 finish and losing both coordinators to peer schools. Please tell me the positives and how things are going to improve in the future?
And that is exactly why we will never compete in the current college football landscape ever again. People don’t care. And not just you, but people who are supposed to care.
It’s just college football. Life’s too short to get so worked up about it.
