Opposing Coach(es) Size Up Syracuse

[SWC75]

Just got my Athlon College Football preview. They like us to go 9-3 and their write up shows good respect. But they had a side-bar with the above title. It seemed to be from one opposing coach as it had the same theme throughout:

"Dino Babers has had a remarkable run with a roster that's had a lot of experience. he's done a great job. But he's had a team full of older kids. He's had that quarterback (Eric Dungey) ever since he's been there and this past season all of that came to fruition. Now because of their talent base and what you can really do with recruiting there, there's a big question around if he can keep it going, if he can keep winning and keep attention on the program with the less experienced side of that roster. it's going to be hard...The interesting thing about an Art Briles offensive system is that it's built almost exclusively on the talent level and the awareness of your quarterback your quarterback. The other skill position experience doesn't dictate anything. What are they going to look like now? Tommy DeVito is the guy there; they lost the other kid (Chance Amie) to the transfer portal along with their best receiver. Just based on experience, we think they're going to fall back and look as young as they are on offense...Defensively they're built to suit their offense, which is sort of saying that they're not really extra talented at any one place and they want to take risks and the ball back to their QBs. Just like with the offense, they had a lot of veterans last year so they could do more. let's see how multiple they can get with new personnel they've been recruiting."

Apparently these (this) anonymous coaches (coach) thinks Dino won last year with Shafer's grown-up recruits and that the recruiting has gone downhill since he arrived. I assume he thinks our "best receiver" was Devin Butler and that Alton Robinson, Kendall Coleman and Andre Cisco aren't "extra talented". I also wonder how much of this is Art Briles' system and how much of it is Dino Baber's system. Finally, if "experience doesn't dictate anything" in Briles' system, then why does he thing we will "fall back" because we lack it?

Have at it.

 

[Trueblue25]

if the coaches in the Acc are half as arrogant as this guy we’re grabbing 11 wins.

 

[WinRoadGame]

So is this a BC or Pitt coach?

 

[SWC75]

if the coaches in the Acc are half as arrogant as this guy we’re grabbing 11 wins.

We couldn't have won 11 games with out him!

 

[SWC75]

Think he was talking about Jamal Custis when he said we lost our “best receiver”

He said he went through the transfer portal.

 

[SUskibum]

It can’t be anyone from the Atlantic because they would have scouted us too closely to not realize that we return a lot more experience than we lose. Not to mention our incoming QB is a lot scarier (in many ways) than the one were losing

It’s probably not Narduzzi, or Cutcliffe not sure who else I could rule out.

EDIT: HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID... IT’S TOTALLY McFCKIT! Now that he is an OC he has a microphone again!

 

[Alsacs]

Narduzzi sticking up for his boy Scott Shafer is my guess for the coach.
That coach doesn’t realize how much Dino has stepped up the recruiting and actually has given life to the program.

 

[rrlbees]

He said he went through the transfer portal.

He was talking about amie going thru the portal. The wr was Custis.

 

[Rocco]

“Not extra talented” anywhere on the defense?

Oh ok. Kendall and Alton are one of the best, if not the best, DE combos in the country this year, let alone the ACC.

Cisco is coming off an AA season as a true frosh and we’re well-equipped at every position in the secondary.

Tommy Devito will be fine with his decision-making and accuracy. We lost Custis, but return everyone else at WR. Triston Jackson will be 1st or 2nd team All-ACC.

RBs? Probably the deepest unit on the team.

I say we just go ahead and win 11-12 games this year, then tell all of these *critics* to go swim in the pee troughs.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Well well well, I'll see opposing coach(es) in Hell it looks like.

 

[Alsacs]

“Not extra talented” anywhere on the defense?

Oh ok. Kendall and Alton are one of the best, if not the best, DE combos in the country this year, let alone the ACC.

Cisco is coming off an AA season as a true frosh and we’re well-equipped at every position in the secondary.

Tommy Devito will be fine with his decision-making and accuracy. We lost Custis, but return everyone else at WR. Triston Jackson will be 1st or 2nd team All-ACC.

RBs? Probably the deepest unit on the team.

I say we just go ahead and win 11-12 games this year, then tell all of these *critics* to go swim in the pee troughs.

Again Narduzzi is a meat head.
The coach isn’t an Atlantic coach.

Fuente, Cutcliffe, Mendenhall are smart.
Mack Brown Manny Diaz, and Geoff Collins are too new at their jobs to know our roster.

It’s Narduzzi.

 

[SUskibum]

“Not extra talented” anywhere on the defense?

Oh ok. Kendall and Alton are one of the best, if not the best, DE combos in the country this year, let alone the ACC.

Cisco is coming off an AA season as a true frosh and we’re well-equipped at every position in the secondary.

Tommy Devito will be fine with his decision-making and accuracy. We lost Custis, but return everyone else at WR. Triston Jackson will be 1st or 2nd team All-ACC.

RBs? Probably the deepest unit on the team.

I say we just go ahead and win 11-12 games this year, then tell all of these *critics* to go swim in the pee troughs.

And the more I think of it, NCST was Dungey’s most complete game of his career probably (QB driven offense with a QB that was recruited during THAT guy’s tenure).

The defense played *just* well enough to win (predicated on a last minute TO to seal it). True enough it was not our Defenses best game with the caveat that NCST was one of the best offenses we played all year

McFCKIT also had to recruit here which the coach repeatedly brought up as a challenge

Oh, I am totally sold that’s who it is.

 

[SUskibum]

Again Narduzzi is a meat head.
The coach isn’t an Atlantic coach.

Fuente, Cutcliffe, Mendenhall are smart.
Mack Brown Manny Diaz, and Geoff Collins are too new at their jobs to know our roster.

It’s Narduzzi.

But was if it wasn’t a HEAD coach?...

 

[TheHaze315]

He said he went through the transfer portal.

Then he’s just uninformed and his opinion means nothing to me regardless if it’s positive or negative

 

[tipphill]

i would say that this was a fair analysis of our talent. it was not a fair analysis of dino. he is a very good coach, who can no longer sneak up on opponents . devito needs to produce and show the leadership. if he goes down -- we will see what happens.

 

[SWC75]

He was talking about amie going thru the portal. The wr was Custis.

"they lost the other kid (Chance Amie) to the transfer portal along with their best receiver."

I supposed it could be interpreted either way. It reads like he's talking about Butler but Custis was certainly better than Butler. I would think even this guy could see that.

 

[Trueblue25]

Nard dog or Mack.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I find both the Narduzzi and McDonald arguments to be compelling.

Not the argument they make, the argument that it was one of them.

You know what I mean.

 

[HtownOrange]

The comments are proof that recreational drug use causes dain bramage. Even concussions don't do as much damage as this commenter has suffered.

If the comments are from McF***it, he should worry more about his game plan of short side screen pass X3, punt than the SU defense being built to suit the offense. Just my two cents.

 

[007]

This is so far off the mark it doesn't merit any kind of response

 

[Marroniac]

It was McDuzzi.

 

[Chip]

Doeren mollests collies.

 

[care taker]

He is going to kiss my pinky ring !

 

[syrBossHogg]

Didn't McD and Shafer not get along towards the end? Not sure he would be so positive of Shafer, think it's Narduzzi

 

[Yeti]

...It just comes off like something Mcfckit would say.

Also how the hell does an opposing coach even know who Chance Amie is if they know so little about the rest of the team.