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[QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 1525324, member: 1091"]
Besides getting us back to bowling, Marrone was 25-25 when Grob was what 10-38?  I could ask him if he would reconsider coming back but I already know the answer - no.  He is an NFL guy.

Bees cannot believe you still take this so personal but you do have one thing right - Doug was his own worse enemy.  Never knew such a stubborn SOB myself...told him once he needed to pick & choose his battles but everything to him was a battle to win or lose.  No political savvy whatsoever.  Was in his office once while he was arguing on the phone with Gross & a trustee or 2 over the lack of progress on the IPF (between year 2 & 3 and I saw the plans back after year 1 similar to what we have today) he got so angry you could see his body shake.  If you all forget, I broke the story on the IPF.

Regardless, there simply wasn't enough money, plain & simple in the old BE.  I used to say Doug finally got what he wanted in the IPF but he had to leave the program to get it.  The truth was a recomitment to football in our move to the ACC and funding comitments which surprised many as they built the IPF prior to getting 100% funding.  Accounting is now under heavy scrutiny and control by Sevyrud.

You never know what the future holds but the we have to get back to being a football school.  JB will be retiring soon and we have no idea what to expect after that.  Better to not have all your eggs in one basket and that's the mission of the new AD.  Bring back football, become less dependent on basketball - I hope they go after both!  Go Orange.
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