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Message: [QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 4188421, member: 2585"] 1. I didn't say there wasn't a downturn. I said there was one bad year. It's a relative take, granted. We've had multiple bubble years before. This one can be explained a bit (though it's likely a mix of a lot of things, to your point). 2. Isn't it suspicious that our "decline" is happening at the same time as our inclusion in the ACC? I know the ACC has been down the last couple of years - any maybe we're swept up in whatever that is? Money flowing to SEC and B1G teams? Etc. 3. Our downturn was certainly helped by the sanctions. We've not regained our recruiting perch or momentum since. I know most Syracuse fans think we got railroaded by the NCAA. I'm in that camp. 4. Regardless, the rush to condemn the coach for this things as 100% his fault is weird and the smart posters here seemingly embraced it without asking the questions above? It reeks of "we're not used to losing, let's rush to fire the HC" that the SEC rolls with in CFB. I hate that stuff. Unhappy fans decide not to dig deep but instead rush to pin the outcomes solely on the HC? Lame stuff. We can do better. 5. I'm def open to the idea that he needs to change and that he may be unable to in the times of NIL and transfer portal. But we've had good guys transfer in and we're not impotent on the recruiting trail. His name still counts for something. There's no doubt we need to do better at getting and retaining talent - but it's not being run off at a clip that suggests we're doing any worse than any other P5 program, I think? 6. He's still earned a long leash. The program got built by this guy. 46 years of really, really good results. A slight downturn and a bad year isn't going to get it done. [/QUOTE]

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