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[QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 128574, member: 363"]
Looking back at the season I would agree with GO, it is a process for sure. the improvment isn't always a straight line process. I could have lived with 5-7 if we had a bunch of young skill guys playing and a young O Line as well, this is what concerns me but it doesn't mean that marrone can't come back and go 9-4 next year but it also doesn't mean we won't be 4-8 next year either. Next year and year 5 to me is judgement day for Marrone. That said, I really think this season was a GROB type effort, yeah I know it was 5-7 not 3-9 but it still sucked really bad and when that happens it will all fall on the head coach, that is to be expected.

The D stunk but we know from past experience that Shafer is more than capable, I just don't know if what we are trying to do on specials and offense will ever work under Marrone. I just wish he would take over as the OC, hire a specials/ TE coach, and a qb coach with some gray hair ( a resume that shows contacts the ability to get good players and a pattern of success of making qb's better) That said, I believe that Marrone has a lot of faith in Hackett and who knows maybe he is right. At the end of the day, he needs to be comfortable with his assistants. Having a engaging personality doesn't make a great recruiter, contacts and street cred do, IMO.

If one ever listens to Dan Hawkins on satellite radio, he talks all the time of the importance of facilities as well, which is always going to hurt our program. But what does Hawkins know I guess.. I would rather take the word of an internet forum guru
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