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[QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1235111, member: 40"]
Yeah, seriously.  Marrone's record, sans context, is only slightly above .500.

Considering the context of him taking over literally the WORST BCS conference program in college football, and getting them to a bowl in year 2, two bowls in four years, and nearly a third in between -- that's a different spin on the same data.  He took the worst major conference team in college football and immediately made them more competitive.  I'm not suggesting that he was dynamic, nor that his record was superlative, but only looking at the win percentage alone after a short stint when he made the team exponentially more competitive as the sole benchmark criteria lacks perspective.

It isn't like Marrone took over a reasonable program in a reasonable state of operation and went .5oo.  Anyone pretending that is being intellectually dishonest.

For him to be above .500 given what he took over is highly impressive, even though his record is not.  But to consider only the record in a vacuum sans context doesn't tell the entire story.
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