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[QUOTE="Dr. Bill, post: 4793910, member: 5045"]
Then you don't understand how team sports work if you think coaching is 80% of a team's success.
Talented players win games...period, end of story. A little sports history if you care to read it. Bear Bryant, from Alabama, is considered to be one of the top coaches in football history. Bear coached for much of his career in a system that was segregated. Bear realized that Alabama was missing out on a lot of talented players who were Black and lobbied the school to allow him to recruit Black players and the school said Hell No Bear! So, Bear Bryant started scheduling games against schools like USC, that had talented Black players...and it was the famous loss to USC and Sam Bam Cunningham that gave Bear Bryant the leverage he needed to convince Alabama to allow him to recruit black players. I lived in Alabama up until recently, and there is no fan base that likes winning more than they do. My point in this long dissertation is that a great coach, like Bear Bryant, realized that in order to continue to win in the landscape that he found himself in, he had to recruit better talent, and that talent included Black players. Syracuse, now finds themselves in a difficult place, recruiting is different now that we are in the ACC and with NIL and all of that stuff. It is way more complex than who the coach is..
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