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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3229689, member: 289"] If Doug didn't do a good job here, we'd be glad he was gone, as were with G-Rob. He did the heavy lifting in getting this program back off the floor after the G-Rob fiasco. And I think we all understand that being a head coach in the NFL is the pinnacle of a coach's career - unless his temperament is more that of a college coach, in which case it would be to because the head man at a "destination" school and contend for national championships. But Doug found out that the college game wasn't the 'dream job' he had hoped and our hopes that he would stay and become the football equivalent of Boeheim and Desko were dashed. the 'dream job' quote may or may not have haunted him but it certainly haunted us. if this is you dream job, why would you walk away from it? I would have liked for him to give a news conference or an interview to announce he was leaving and why. Instead all we got was his introductory news conference for the Bills where we weren't mentioned. then he walked away from that job. In both cases, the job wasn't finished. We were just about to enter the ACC needed Doug to stay and manage the conversion to a stronger conference with new recruiting areas, a bigger budget and better facilities. We wanted him to turn us into an ACC contender. Bills fans wanted him to turn them into regular playoff contender. He came off as a guy who don't finish jobs and who burns bridges. That said, i could never bring myself to root for him to fail, both because he did get our program going again when we were at a low ebb, and that he was a Syracuse guy and having a Syracuse guy have success in the NFL is always a good thing. I'm sorry things didn't work out in Jacksonville and I hope he'll get another chance at a head job. [/QUOTE]

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