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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 743101, member: 363"] I am sorry but King Otto has made a lot of statements over the years and most were way off base, if you throw enough against the wall, some times it will stick. We get it we have stunk the last two games, The GROB versus Marrone is a bit insane but whatever, just let it go. If I dig deep enough I will find a post where, the great King Otto stated last year prior to the season that Jerome Smith was not a lead runner and wasn't any good, again just another BOLD statement that was well wrong. He's a talking head with a few followers, maybe 8-9! Just because it's written doesn't make it even worth reading. I quit reading his stuff a couple years ago. Dude, thinks he is much more in tune with the game/program than he actually is. Hey more power to him, but I don't care for his posts never have and had not noticed he wasn't around. The fact is, if the program makes you that angry, go elsewhere, Syracuse football owes you absolutely nothing. NOTHING. I bitch and moan but I think his incessant tweeting etc is going off the deep end. Top to bottom, I think this program is light years ahead of where it was 4 years ago. Talent can be debated I get that, Marrone wasn't a great recruiter but a foundation was built to bring the program back to respectability and that was accomplished. Talent wise 1-85 no comparison. Shafer needs to recruit better, get the staff together and continue to build on what Doug left. I think he can do it, I really do and I think the community will love the guy when we wins, the issue is he needs to continue to tweak staff for a year or two. Why was the d game plan so poor last Saturday? That was one of the worst halves of defensive football I have ever seen. Is he better off being the HC/DC when he gets his feet underneath him and then going out and hiring a seasoned OC because they are out there. Time will tell, far too early to tell but there is 6-7 wins in this team this year, up to the coaches to get it out of them. WE just got waxed by a program that rates 70-80 every year in recruiting. The continuity is what helps them the same continuity we were beginning to see with Marrone before he left. [/QUOTE]

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