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Daily Orange article:
Doug Marrone’s impact on Syracuse still felt despite abrupt departure 10 years ago
Doug Marrone changed the course of the SU football program. He ran the program like Dick MacPherson in many ways, but obviously didn't have the personality nor charisma of Coach Mac.
Interesting excerpts from the article, when thinking about Dino's current program:
Doug Marrone’s impact on Syracuse still felt despite abrupt departure 10 years ago
Doug Marrone changed the course of the SU football program. He ran the program like Dick MacPherson in many ways, but obviously didn't have the personality nor charisma of Coach Mac.
Interesting excerpts from the article, when thinking about Dino's current program:
Robinson hadn’t maintained relationships with local high school coaches, but Marrone did...
He brought SU’s focus back to recruiting within 5-6 hours, mirroring past head coaches Dick MacPherson and Paul Pasqualoni and emphasizing talent from New York state.
Players had to wear collared shirts when talking to the media, a suit and tie on road trips and couldn’t grow facial hair. There was no more music during practice.
Marrone was a real stickler on mistakes, Long said. Syracuse continued practice periods — or even restarted them — if players weren’t blocking the right assignments or running into the right gaps. As Long put it, there was no “we’ll get it next time,” like there was with Robinson, who stuck to the practice schedule despite mistakes.