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Message: [QUOTE="chakka3421, post: 1525823, member: 1091"] Regarding recruiting, I remember Doug once saying he liked the pros better because the guys were fighting for a job and the players did everything they could to make the team so players were self motivated. In the college scene, he said he really didn't mind going into living rooms trying to convince kids & parents that SU was the best place for the kid. What he didn't like were overcoming obstacles with things like being in the BE, attendance, facilities, IPF, SU being a basketball school with the Melo center that were always being used against us. Shafer & his staff is much better at recruiting but he has fewer obstacles to face than Marrone had - we are in the ACC, we have better facilities including the new IPF but we are still labeled as a bball school and attendance is down. Shafer is very good at motivating college kids but it seems to me he still trying to figure out the finer things like recognition where his kids are especially in the 4th quarter - like when to go for 2 in overtime, clock management, timeouts, going for it on offense vs relying on defense for stops, etc. That's his job to manage the pulse of the team and momentum of the game, not his staff's job and he needs to think this through before the game because we could very well be in it up or down by 1 score in the 4th quarter from here on out. Coyle was hired with the long term goal to bring back football and has already started to address the attendance problem like they did at Boise with the stakeholder committee they are forming. That is encouraging. The redo of the Dome with emphasis on football game day experience is encouraging too. Simply the emphasis to bring back football is very encouraging. JB won't be here much longer and we don't really know what will happen with bball. I hope Shafer survives because in my opinion he has the right demeanor to be a really good football HC. He just needs more time. [/QUOTE]

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