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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 1153030, member: 527"]
I can break it down more than that. Shafer has been really really lucky twice since being the SU head coach and if not for that luck this "debate" isn't even happening and the masses would be calling for his head.

1) If the Nova kicker didn't pull an epic choke job, SU has 1 win right now and is 1-4
2) If BC didn't run out of bounds for no reason late in the 4th quarter and give SU the ball back when they could have ran out the clock essentially  SU loses that game and wins only 5 games last year and has no Bowl appearance.

Those are 2 events Shafer got very very VERY lucky with and he had nothing to do with. He got lucky plain and simple. So just imagine Shafer wasn't lucky and he is 1-4 as we sit today and he is coming off a 5 win season with no bowl game. Would this debate even be happening? NOPE, the vast majority would be calling for his job and to fire him.

If you dig deep and look into things a little further, you start to realize and ask, what the heck is Shafer's "landmark win" or even "best win" so far? Is it Minnesota in a bowl...I guess but he was lucky to get there. Are things getting better under him as we move forward? (they clearly aren't) Why should SU stick with him?  It's really tough to find reasons to keep him at this point and get positive answers to those questions.
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