My two cents

[kcsu]

Lets start with the positives.
Coach White is excellent. The kids play extremely hard for him. He calls a great game and the D is well prepared. He is our best coach.
Tucker continues to impress. Give him any blocking at all and he goes for 100 more often than not.
Lots of young talent on D.

Negatives.
Dino. Hes in over his head and seems totally lost. The bye week was obviously not put to good use. In order for him to succeed he needs to focus on the CEO aspect of being a head coach and hire others to manage the game planning and game calling. White was a great hire. Gilbert gets next year but so far regardless of excuses this is the worst offense in my 55 years of watching SU football.
Kav needs to be replaced. Pay him and take care of his wife but dont allow him to continue to coach. He is a complete disaster.
QB position needs to hit the portal hard. We need to create some serious competition next spring.

How does this get fixed?
1: Hire the best OL coach available.
2: Hit the transfer portal hard for 3 positions.
QB
OL
DL
3: Allow Gilbert to play call. Dino is a better head coach than OC. Let the coaches coach. Stop micromanaging the O side of the ball.
4: Grow a set of balls. This team needs a firm hand. Establish discipline. Weed out any malcontents. Stop with the Ohana BS and hold coaches and players accountable.
5: Do a complete review of the strength and conditioning, nutrition, and medical staffs. Make investments in these areas.
6: Recruiting. Hire Dave Boller or someone else to focus entirely on transfers. Director of transfer recruiting. Im serious.
Make the transfer portal a priority. Starting this year and going forward the portal represents as important a
" recruiting territory" as any area in the country. It instantly turned Liberty and other schools into winning programs.
For SU it has to become a priority.
Last point. Its obvious Dino gets next year and unless he totally tanks 2 more years. If im JW i would all over him. I would increase the pressure on him 10 fold. By that i wouldn't just meet with him for lunch once a week.
Rather i would require him to provide a specific plan on how he was going to address all aspects of MY program because at the end of the day its Syracuse University's football program and the University has empowered JW to run it. Not Dino. Dino only gets to coach it.
JW needs to all over Dino. Like a compression sock on an Owie.
Just because you cant fire someone doesn't mean you cant manage them. Dino needs his balls busted and he needs his boss to question everything he is doing, and is going to do to earn his salary and coach this team. He needs to be forced to step up his game as he is obviously not doing it on his own.

 

[orlandoorange]

Lets start with the positives.
Coach White is excellent. The kids play extremely hard for him. He calls a great game and the D is well prepared. He is our best coach.
Tucker continues to impress. Give him any blocking at all and he goes for 100 more often than not.
Lots of young talent on D.

Negatives.
Dino. Hes in over his head and seems totally lost. The bye week was obviously not put to good use. In order for him to succeed he needs to focus on the CEO aspect of being a head coach and hire others to manage the game planning and game calling. White was a great hire. Gilbert gets next year but so far regardless of excuses this is the worst offense in my 55 years of watching SU football.
Kav needs to be replaced. Pay him and take care of his wife but dont allow him to continue to coach. He is a complete disaster.
QB position needs to hit the portal hard. We need to create some serious competition next spring.

How does this get fixed?
1: Hire the best OL coach available.
2: Hit the transfer portal hard for 3 positions.
QB
OL
DL
3: Allow Gilbert to play call. Dino is a better head coach than OC. Let the coaches coach. Stop micromanaging the O side of the ball.
4: Grow a set of balls. This team needs a firm hand. Establish discipline. Weed out any malcontents. Stop with the Ohana BS and hold coaches and players accountable.
5: Do a complete review of the strength and conditioning, nutrition, and medical staffs. Make investments in these areas.
6: Recruiting. Hire Dave Boller or someone else to focus entirely on transfers. Director of transfer recruiting. Im serious.
Make the transfer portal a priority. Starting this year and going forward the portal represents as important a
" recruiting territory" as any area in the country. It instantly turned Liberty and other schools into winning programs.
For SU it has to become a priority.
Last point. Its obvious Dino gets next year and unless he totally tanks 2 more years. If im JW i would all over him. I would increase the pressure on him 10 fold. By that i wouldn't just meet with him for lunch once a week.
Rather i would require him to provide a specific plan on how he was going to address all aspects of MY program because at the end of the day its Syracuse University's football program and the University has empowered JW to run it. Not Dino. Dino only gets to coach it.
JW needs to all over Dino. Like a compression sock on an Owie.
Just because you cant fire someone doesn't mean you cant manage them. Dino needs his balls busted and he needs his boss to question everything he is doing, and is going to do to earn his salary and coach this team. He needs to be forced to step up his game as he is obviously not doing it on his own.

Agreed 100%. This is DBs mess and we're stuck for now. Managing the crap out of him is the only way forward.

 

[Newhouser]

I would move 4 and 5 up to the top as they are fixes that can start this morning.

 

[kcsu]

I would move 4 and 5 up to the top as they are fixes that can start this morning.

If this were my company i would have had his arse in my office at 6am this morning.

 

[Cusefan78]

Lets start with the positives.
Coach White is excellent. The kids play extremely hard for him. He calls a great game and the D is well prepared. He is our best coach.
Tucker continues to impress. Give him any blocking at all and he goes for 100 more often than not.
Lots of young talent on D.

Negatives.
Dino. Hes in over his head and seems totally lost. The bye week was obviously not put to good use. In order for him to succeed he needs to focus on the CEO aspect of being a head coach and hire others to manage the game planning and game calling. White was a great hire. Gilbert gets next year but so far regardless of excuses this is the worst offense in my 55 years of watching SU football.
Kav needs to be replaced. Pay him and take care of his wife but dont allow him to continue to coach. He is a complete disaster.
QB position needs to hit the portal hard. We need to create some serious competition next spring.

How does this get fixed?
1: Hire the best OL coach available.
2: Hit the transfer portal hard for 3 positions.
QB
OL
DL
3: Allow Gilbert to play call. Dino is a better head coach than OC. Let the coaches coach. Stop micromanaging the O side of the ball.
4: Grow a set of balls. This team needs a firm hand. Establish discipline. Weed out any malcontents. Stop with the Ohana BS and hold coaches and players accountable.
5: Do a complete review of the strength and conditioning, nutrition, and medical staffs. Make investments in these areas.
6: Recruiting. Hire Dave Boller or someone else to focus entirely on transfers. Director of transfer recruiting. Im serious.
Make the transfer portal a priority. Starting this year and going forward the portal represents as important a
" recruiting territory" as any area in the country. It instantly turned Liberty and other schools into winning programs.
For SU it has to become a priority.
Last point. Its obvious Dino gets next year and unless he totally tanks 2 more years. If im JW i would all over him. I would increase the pressure on him 10 fold. By that i wouldn't just meet with him for lunch once a week.
Rather i would require him to provide a specific plan on how he was going to address all aspects of MY program because at the end of the day its Syracuse University's football program and the University has empowered JW to run it. Not Dino. Dino only gets to coach it.
JW needs to all over Dino. Like a compression sock on an Owie.
Just because you cant fire someone doesn't mean you cant manage them. Dino needs his balls busted and he needs his boss to question everything he is doing, and is going to do to earn his salary and coach this team. He needs to be forced to step up his game as he is obviously not doing it on his own.

100% agree. Look back at what marrone did year one. Discipline fixed a lot of the issue of the grob era and I believe it is the biggest issue right now. Taj was still acting out yesterday. Dino is his own worst enemy. I really for the life of me can’t figure out some of these hires. Kav was bad at Nebraska so much so their fans warned us, Same with Gilbert. USF fans have been mocking us and at one point they were live tweeting the play calling before they happened. I understand the coaching world is small but isn’t there any kind of review of these coaches past job performance or do we boldly assume these guys will change when they land at Hancock. The only thing I dont agree with is giving Gilbert another year. You don’t reward someone after this performance. By now there should be some kind of improvement and clearly it’s going the opposite way.
Repairs needed:
New oline coach
Dino needs to step back from game management and play calling. He is awful at it.
New oc with a proven track record of running an offense
Dedicated recruiting coach to identify and target the vast needs. Not to beat a dead horse but how does a coach with the offensive scheme of Dino not able to recruit quarterbacks and receivers.

Lastly Damien Rhodes tweeted last night about su play calling and not taking care of their players. There is clearly a problem

 

[kcsu]

100% agree. Look back at what marrone did year one. Discipline fixed a lot of the issue of the grob era and I believe it is the biggest issue right now. Taj was still acting out yesterday. Dino is his own worst enemy. I really for the life of me can’t figure out some of these hires. Kav was bad at Nebraska so much so their fans warned us, Same with Gilbert. USF fans have been mocking us and at one point they were live tweeting the play calling before they happened. I understand the coaching world is small but isn’t there any kind of review of these coaches past job performance or do we boldly assume these guys will change when they land at Hancock. The only thing I dont agree with is giving Gilbert another year. You don’t reward someone after this performance. By now there should be some kind of improvement and clearly it’s going the opposite way.
Repairs needed:
New oline coach
Dino needs to step back from game management and play calling. He is awful at it.
New oc with a proven track record of running an offense
Dedicated recruiting coach to identify and target the vast needs. Not to beat a dead horse but how does a coach with the offensive scheme of Dino not able to recruit quarterbacks and receivers.

Lastly Damien Rhodes tweeted last night about su play calling and not taking care of their players. There is clearly a problem

Agreed. I spent last night talking some significant supporters of the program off the bridge.
JW can step in without firing Dino and i fully expect he will.

 

[Cusefan78]

Agreed. I spent last night talking some significant supporters of the program off the bridge.
JW can step in without firing Dino and i fully expect he will.

I just hope it’s not for show like it was for coach p. There are serious deficiencies in dinos coaching ability and I believe those can be masked with a heavy handed ad.

 

[Orangejet]

Great post and I agree 100%.

 

[kcsu]

Dino needs to be managed and helped. JWs background is media which is why he fell in love with Dino like we all did. Dino made us relevant again. Unfortunately JW doesn't have a coaching background. If im JW i ask for a specific plan to improve the OL situation as so many of our issues stem directly from that unit groups complete failure.

 

[orlandoorange]

Dino needs to be managed and helped. JWs background is media which is why he fell in love with Dino like we all did. Dino made us relevant again. Unfortunately JW doesn't have a coaching background. If im JW i ask for a specific plan to improve the OL situation as so many of our issues stem directly from that unit groups complete failure.

I'd also speak with people who do have the strengths that I lack and people that have turned programs around before. Learning from someone else's experience is less expensive than learning on your own.

 

[Cusefan78]

Dino needs to be managed and helped. JWs background is media which is why he fell in love with Dino like we all did. Dino made us relevant again. Unfortunately JW doesn't have a coaching background. If im JW i ask for a specific plan to improve the OL situation as so many of our issues stem directly from that unit groups complete failure.

if this conversation hasn’t been had at least twice a year since Dino arrived then our problems are a lot deeper then we think.