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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1854572, member: 289"] [I]2020 Vision[/I] I believe Dino Babers and his staff will get this program turned around and provide a lot of exiting football for Syracuse fansI also believe they will use the Carrier Dome the way it should have been used from the beginning- the perfect place for wide-open offense in front of a packed house of screaming fans. . I think they will make us the Baylor of the North, (on the field). But Dino Babers keeps talking about how things will really get going in the second year, how he wants “belief without evidence” and about Novocain, which takes a while to take effect. He doesn’t expect immediate success and he doesn’t want the fans to, either. That dream he wanted in our heads was about what he’s going to build, not what he’s going to present from the opening game. We have significant question marks on this team that could turn out to be genuine weaknesses, especially at offensive tackle and defensive end. We are thin is some areas and could not sustain many injuries, (especially defensive tackle). We are learning new schemes on either side of the ball. I think we’ll have some exciting offensive games but also some disappointing ones and our punting is another question mark. I think our defense has a lot of good young players on it but I believe they are going to have trouble stopping a lot of the teams we will play this year. This schedule is a meat-grinder. We play two of the four teams that are projected to play in the national championship tournament, (Clemson and Florida State). We may play 3-4 other ranked teams (Louisville, Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh). We will play several teams with strong defense who may have the running game to grind it out and keep our offense on the side=lines, (Connecticut, Boston College, Pittsburgh). South Florida will be good and NC State loves to torture us. Wake Forest isn’t good but they are an ACC team and Colgate could be one of the top FCS teams this year. There won’t be many games where we could play at less than our best and still win. I think Baber’s start here will resemble what happened with Art Briles at Baylor more than what happened with Dino Babers at Eastern Illinois and Boling Green. I think it will be a bumpy ride, at least for the first year. Then we will get steadily better for the next 2-3 years than have a major breakthrough. Those wonderful things he wanted us to visualize will come by 2020 and then we’ll have the greatest show on earth. [/QUOTE]

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