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[QUOTE="OrangePA, post: 767821, member: 204"]
Lane Kiffin was a great offensive mind with Bush, Sanchez and Five Stars at every position at USC.
 
With 56 scholarship players he is a pretty mediocre OC.
 
Tom Flores, John Madden and John Rauch all won in Oakland (Rauch and Flores did nothing when they left) not because they were great coaches but because they all had the great Oakland talent.
 
Casey Stengel lost big as manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and won big with the Yankess.
 
Bill Russell won as coach of the Celtics and lost big in Seattle and Sacramento.
 
You can come up with many more examples.   
 
Obviously there are some coaches - very few I believe - who have more innate ability than others in terms of player evaluation, film review, player motivation, basic teaching of technique, and game time savvy, but for the most part it's the talent of the players that makes the difference.
 
The bigger, the stronger and the faster the players the better the coach coaches - it is far more simple than we want it to be perhaps but that's the reality.
 
And that's really the point on this board. We want to believe that all we have to do is get a "great" coach and we will win - quickly.
 
We all think about the days of Vince Lombardi who took over the lowly Packers and immediately made them winners and figure, hey, we can do the same thing with a great coach.
 
Well, the story of Lombardi's success in Green Bay was not as simple as it has appeared in books and articles and documentaries. And  for a program like the Syracuse program, it's not going to be simple and it's not going to be quick.
 
The program has to be enhanced so that it can accumulate the kind of talent level that can compete with the likes of Clemson, FSU and the top line programs.
 
And that takes an intense commitment of money/time/investment.
 
I think it will happen but it will take time.
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