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Message: [QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 1526210, member: 204"] I have posted this before. At a dinner for donors held at Turning Stone in the spring of 2011 - after the first Pinstripe Bowl win - while he was riding high - Marrone made an impassioned plea for improved facilities. He insisted that we had the worst football infrastructure in the Big East - that we lacked even basic medical/training equipment that was desperately needed. He said "get me to the middle of the Big East, and I'll win here." And then he said, "If you don't build there will be another guy standing here in a couple of years making the same pitch." At the time, I thought he meant, "If you don't build, I'll fail - will get fired and you'll be back to square one" After he left, I re-thought what he had said that night. I began to think that what he meant was "If you don't build, I'm leaving." I do think it's true that Marrone did not know exactly what he was getting when he took the SU job. [/QUOTE]