Its not just the decision to kick the field goal in this game. Its his history of making poor decisions and of poor clock management and use of time outs. Throw in the sideline confusion and lack of game organizational skills and its obvious that Dino isnt very good at these things. Patterns are indicators of strengths and weaknesses. Dino has a long record of failures when it comes to his in game decisions.
I dont think anyone would argue that its one of Dino's weaknesses but its ok to judge every situation logically and without emotions. Every decision he makes is not bad. He's won some tight games too. I can think of BC VT Pitt Clemson UNC and Nc st in some of the early years of his tenure.
yeah...I did read an article somewhere stating that Anae/Beck have in the past, managed end of half/game/4th down situations. When we look at Gilbert's play calling and Dino's clock management, CUSE is fortunate to have these two. I'm of the belief the MAIN thing holding back our offense this year is how quickly the players can pick up the new "system" and secondly 2 WRs stepping up.
Liberty last year. Ran the clock down to perfection and kicked a field goal to win with time expiring. No credit though, must have been someone else running the show just that one time.
He did but one situation doesn't change his overall body of work. I dont believe there are many who would say that this is Dinos strong suit.
No one said he’s 0% successful in this spot. I just think if you are Syracuse you need to be great at the thinking things because our depth and talent will never out talent or depth our peers in the ACC
I essentially agree but as the CEO he obviously will keep the veto decision on certain game defining decisions.
I’m not saying it was a good or bad decision but getting stopped on 4th and 1 would have gave me the same feeling. Losing like that doesn’t make me feel better about a loss. I’ve personally lost games and won games being aggressive like that. I’ve also won games being conservative. Each team is different. Each situation is different. There’s a lot of factors that determine these decisions.
I dont know how people are determining when Dino is involved. Is it only when things go wrong? After each loss?
How do you know if Dino's lack of influence with the offense isn't the issue?
no - this speaks to my point. 50/50 calls or “called a timeout, when I wouldn’t have” or any of that stuff takes on outsized importance in a loss, primarily in the perception of it on a message board.
Dino is the CEO so the results are his responsibility. No one here knows the decision matrix they use but there has been some notable missteps. He fairly or unfairly gets the blame when players or other coaches don't execute.
yeah I feel like when you are playing a team with clearly better talent you go for the potential win. I think we all knew he was going to miss the FG, Andre has not been a great kicker since 2018 and we were having special teams issues from the get go last year. Having Anae and Beck managing the clock and advising Dino on late game decision making will be a great thing. Dino's strength is getting his kids to buy in and play their asses off for him, he has their respect (2019 being the only year I saw that blow up). I like the CEO approach with him, and he now has by far his best staff, especially OC/QB. I don't think people realize truly how horrible Gilbert was, Dino took some hits for him in terms of getting plays in on time, which made Dino's clock management look that much worse. If the D-Line can hold its own and we can establish some downfield passing, this is a bowl team, even with the brutal schedule
yeah, 2019 is when he started to change, I think he got some of his fire back last year and gambled a bit more, but I think now that he isn't playing with house money like he was early in his tenure and his job was safe, he got tighter.
Under Gilbert. It was the first time I didn't know what the offense was doing. I wasn't making sense. All the other years I saw what they were trying to do. They just couldn't consistently do it for various reasons.
So true. The good ones seem to get it right more than not.
Yes, the biggest lessons I learned from the Sterlin Gilbert era at Syracuse were
lol We wont either.
