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Message: [QUOTE="qdawgg, post: 471212, member: 52"] But at this point it's pure speculation he's doing it for leverage. Maybe he knows he isn't willing to be a college coach for the next 10 years and maybe he's pretty sure he won't land a job in the NFL this year. But if he doesn't go through the process now he could be screwing himself down the road. The reality is, we as fans don't know anything at all except he's been called by the NFL and he's at least interviewed with the Browns. We have no idea what his interest level right now is. From what people have posted in the last couple years it seemed fairly obvious DM wasn't going to be a lifer here. Coaching for as long as JB in BB is far different than doing it in college football, just recruiting alone is so significantly more time consuming in football than in basketball for multiple reasons. It has to burn you out. My belief, also speculation, he got here with high expectations and as excited as anyone is when they start a new job. As the years go by he has realized the job requirement is far more difficult, complex, and time consuming than he imagined. That led him to realize he wanted to at least get the program on the right track again, turn the keys over to someone and return to the NFL. He has to interview if called, if he doesn't he will never be called again. People are getting too bent out of shape about this, acting as if this is a big slap in the face. This is just reality, college football coaching is *cking hard. Harder than he expected. He wasn't going to stay forever, this whole process was bound to happen at some point. If anything this whole thing is showing we are/were headed in a much more upward direction than the coaching staff has sometimes been given credit for. All of Marrone's peers are showing what kind of job people think he has done at SU by including him in conversations for almost every coaching position. That is *cking great for SU. Let's hope that if he does in fact leave it's because he knew he wanted to go back to the NFL eventually and not because he felt as if the University would never support football enough in order for it to be successful and competitive. That is the [I]only [/I]thing that concerns me about this whole thing. [/QUOTE]

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