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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 165951, member: 837"]
Here's some pros and cons to his leaving RU:
 
[B]Pros[/B]
 
-- The man could recruit and it's unlikely, with conference affiliations, etc., that the next RU coach is able to sustain and/or improve upon his general success in terms of talent acquisition. That should help us by default.
 
-- RU may not have won many big games and may have only really had one truly excellent season, but there's no doubting that the used car salesman raised RU's profile and won far more games, more consistently (even if it was against terrible competition) than the previous staff.
 
-- We don't have to look at him on the sidelines.
 
[B]Cons[/B]
 
-- Marrone was 2-1 against ol' Greg. He probably -- despite how bad we were this year -- should have been 3-0. If we catch up in the talent department, GS was kind of nice to have around. Yes, he'd grab some recruits, but most years he appeared to get out-coached when it mattered.
 
-- He loved to make moves on his staff and hire and fire assistants. Everyone does this to an extent but word is that he was tough to work for. That can't hurt (from our perspective)
 
-- His outlandish comments, helicopter flights and general appearance made for a perfectly detestable local rival. Yes, we're going to the ACC but it's still fun to root against RU. Not quite as much fun now.
 
So what say you? My vote is that it actually hurts us a bit. I know he could recruit but his teams never seemed to play that well.
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