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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 241396, member: 780"] Forgive me, but the comments you are reporting from the ADs office sound a lot like what we used to call "Execu-speak". It's stuff for external consumption that makes it appear that they are doing something. Here's why Marrone is good for at least three or four more years. 1. It's unclear to the University hiearchy (and it should be) that they can identify, recruit and pay-for someone better. Hiring new FB coaches seems to be a crapshoot to me and I'm sure it does to the University also. The latest hot coach is outrageously expensive (usually) and they are frequently unable to translate that success in a new environment. At a minimum they re-set the rebuilding clock back to zero. 2. This would be an admission of failure on Gross's part on his second FB HC hire. And the new guy might fail too. That's a huge career risk for Gross and would expose hin as clueless in the most important thing an AD does. 3. SU, as an institution, does not like to fire coachs. We have had a handful of football head coaches since the min-1950's. 4. Things are not desperate at SU. FB is slowing down the parade, but on balance the athletic program is not in bad shape financially. And the move to the ACC means more money and makes the University less desperate. 5. In hiring Marrone they followed the template that has been successful for SU in basketball and lacrosse ...hire alumni. If they stay with that approach that even shrinks the field of candidates more. 6. It may be that changes in the environment --- the addition of all these new schools recruiting the Northeast --- mean that SU cannot ever again be what it was in the 1990's and SU needs to acclimate itself to the new reality. (I'm not saying the is true or not. I'm suggesting that this is the sort of things Universities consider) [/QUOTE]

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