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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4508486, member: 40"]
I'm with you.  The fairly rapid turnaround under Marrone, using a lot of the same players who seemed overmatched the year before, was semi-miraculous IMO.

He was a brilliant game planner, and his teams played hard.  But it is also true that he benefitted by playing in a relatively weak Big East conference [relative to the ACC], and from having an NFL caliber QB [Nassib] that he inherited.

Not a knock against him -- it was what it was.  He also didn't enjoy recruiting, he didn't bring in a quality replacement for Nassib, and he "left" before the turnaround was completed, which put us right back on shaky ground when Shafer was promoted to replace him.  And he pilfered a ton of our assistant coaches on the way out the door, which invalidated the so called "continuity hire" logic of hiring Shafer.

I'm not critiquing him -- but I also acknowledge that there was both good and bad, and it is impossible to envision him ever coming back to Syracuse.
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