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Message: [QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 4733726, member: 8174"] Thanks for sharing your article. [I]"But then there are Dino’s faults: excessive secrecy, questionable game management, over-reliance on coaches he knows, and inconsistent player development. A have-not like Syracuse football needs to be different and take every advantage it can. Whether Dino is doing enough is ultimately unclear."[/I] [LIST] [*][I][B]Excessive secrecy[/B]. [/I]I find this to be very similar to most coaches. Do you know of a program that is NOT guarded like this? Please name a couple if you do know of any. [/LIST] [LIST] [*][I][B]Questionable game management.[/B] [/I]Although I think this improved a bit last season, [I]what happened at Clemson in 2022 was terrible[/I]; allowing the clock to run for 25 seconds before calling a timeout and leaving two timeouts on the board at the end of the game. This must continue to improve. [/LIST] [LIST] [*][I][B]Over-reliance on coaches he knows.[/B] [/I]Dino has made of couple of bad hires while at Syracuse, but would you prefer he relied on coaches he doesn't know? 2023 will be Dino's 38th year of coaching on the collegiate level. He knows more than a few coaches out there. I am glad he knew Rocky Long and I'm glad he knew Bronco Mendenhall who referred Anae and Back to him. [/LIST] [LIST] [*][I][B]Inconsistent player development.[/B] [/I]Unfortunately, this goes hand in hand with being a program that relies on 3* recruits. Not every 5* recruit pans out either, but 3* pan out less often than 4* or 5* recruits. "There's saying among coaches when it comes to recruiting, you can't make chicken salad out of chicken ." Or "great players make good coaches appear to be great." We need to raise the bar and start recruiting against ACC teams rather than MAC teams if we expect to consistently compete with ACC teams. Every year we seem to sign a couple of players who didn't have a single offer from a P5 school other than Syracuse. IMO, the lack of development has more to do with our poor recruiting than any lack of development. [LIST] [*]Our 2023 high school recruiting class: [LIST] [*]Only one player had an offer from Pitt. [*]No one had an offer from BC [*]No one had an offer from Clemson or FSU. If we can't recruit against them, is it reasonable to expect the team to be able to compete with these teams on the field year in and year out? [/LIST] [*]The 2024 high school recruiting class, so far: [LIST] [*]4 commits have an offer from Pitt. [*]5 commits have offers from BC. [*]No commits have an offer from Clemson. [*]No commits have offers from FSU. [/LIST] [*]Clemson's 2023 recruiting class had 26 commits. [LIST] [*]Syracuse offered 4 of those players. (We aren't even fishing in the same waters) [*]BC offered 5 of those players. [*]Pitt offered 8 of those players. [*]And the football power know as Duke offered 12 of those players. [/LIST] [/LIST] [/LIST] I like Dino [LIST] [*]He is a high character person. [*]He represents the University well. [*]He a good leader of men. [*]He has established a good culture in the program. [*]He has the program headed in a positive direction. [LIST] [*]The 2023 team is better than the 2022 team. [*]The 2022 team was better than the 2021 team. [*]Recruiting, although we need to raise the bar here, is better than it has been in recent years. [/LIST] [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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