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[QUOTE="HtownOrange, post: 1117490, member: 622"]
This is the Crusty I know and respect!  I agree with most of your assessments.  I do see improvements being made by the staff when one looks back over last season.  s this staff ready to take down FSU? No.  However, we know Syracuse is not going to pay the big bucks for OC/DC and other coaches so we have to accept that the HC will bring in guys and develop them.  So long as we see improvement over the whole period of their tenure, then things are good.  McD and Bullough have a lot to learn and to grow, but they keep the kids focused, moving, motivated, not wavering/trusting in each other; all the things that were destroyed buy the end of P's tenure and GRob overlooked.

We know these kids aren't the 5Stars every team wants but they know they can grit out a win if they stick together and don't fall apart.  This kind of game is a character building game.  I would have preferred a big win, perhaps a lesser FCS team, but the schedule was to play Nova, the kids did and they pulled out the W.

And I agree that the staff needs better prep and adjustments.  You are a good supporter of the staff in general, I understand your frustrations (as well as everyone else's and mine) but losing the starting QB really did screw up any plan they originally had for the game.

Old military maxim: No battle plan ever survived first contact with the enemy.  Directly applicable to this game.
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