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Message: [QUOTE="Rocco, post: 497127, member: 51"] First off, let's stop worrying about who is leaving as none of us have any control over it. We need to have blind faith in Shaf to bring in the right guys to keep the ship headed on the right track. It sounds, at least on the recruiting front, that they have been very well-received thus far by many commits/recruits. I'm expecting good things to close out this class, but more importantly, get a really early jump on the 2014 class. Oh yeah, and to hell with "stars". Can that word be banned? Secondly, we do not know [U][I]exactly[/I][/U] what went on with the recent defections unless your name is Scott Shafer. It could have very well been a change done by Shaf in wanting to bring in his own guys. Wheatley, Adkins, Henderson and Anselmo leaving hurts for sure. But they are replaceable. Shaf may have told a few of them to beginning sniffing around. DM brought them all here, so they all ended up leaving with him. BFD. Next year was going to be a rough year with many of the offensive studs on the team gone anyways. I think we will be very good defensively. Offensively, we will be raw with a new QB TBD. The talent is there at WR and RB. If we can keep the new coaches for more than a year, I think things will start to click. I love the youth and energy of this new staff. Young Guns. Thirdly, the way that Marrone left has certainly been the opposite of smooth. However, him being successful at the next level will only help Syracuse from an image perspective IMO. It certainly will not be a negative if he wins, so to hear people saying he is a piece of shiit and they hope he fails in Buffalo is a little extreme. He will support the program, and with him being successful at the next level, widens the window of him making a large financial gift to the program at some point. He brought us back from hell, and we are on the verge of doing something great. Him leaving at this time absolutely sucks, but I do not blame him at all for leaving to take a job in the NFL. In an ideal world, he'd be here for many years to come and we would begin dominating the northeast in football again. But that isn't reality, and we need to move on. I have been very impressed with Shaf so far. He brings an infusion of energy and has a bulldog mentality, which the players are pumped about. His new staff is young and are trailblazers on the recruiting front. How this equates to the performance on the field is TBD, but I think I speak for many here, that this is an exciting time for SU football. Onward and upward fockers. [/QUOTE]

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