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[QUOTE="SoBristol, post: 80098, member: 485"]
Have to admit that my SU associations trace back to watching Jim Brown.  So, yes, I know what Coach Mac inherited and I saw many, many of his interviews. He had Joe Morris on that team he inherited, they had some hopes,  but not much on defense.  I would characterize it as an average team.  Part of the reason Frank Maloney was released was that he was not upgrading the talent -- recruiting OK, but not better year over year, and declining rather than improving.  The AD felt Mac would be better (using the new Dome) at lifting the program.
Sure, Mac took flac for his first 3 years, and he tells a good story about that.   The "Sac Mac Pac" -- well, there are always those sorts of people, who don't see what is going on in building a program.   By an odd coincidence, I recently found the Nebraska game program (September 1984) with Tim Green on the cover.  Check the list of frosh and RF on the roster.  You can see the talent that Mac had brought in -- the guys that led the team in 1987 (McPherson, Johnston, Kane, Paul, Philcox, Frase, Glover, Pat Kelly . . .).  If you know SU football at all, you know what Mac did to upgrade the talent through his personal efforts in the recruiting wars -- the upgrade got going, and he left PP a full cupboard.

As for Mac's interviews, I have to question your comment.  Mac was energy, he was funny, he had that Irish charm.   You want to know what upgraded SU football -- one part the Dome, and two parts the charm Mac brought as a closer when he got one on one with prospects and families.  (Although I would also give credit to the quality of the assistant coaches Mac brought to SU.)
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