SUinNWE
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Shafer
Remember the temple game near the end of the P era?
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sdhall01
2022 Cali Award Winner (Sacks) 4 lifetime!
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Oh yeah, that’s true. We won the Texas bowl before collapsing. We don’t beat 2 top 25 teams, though.
gmoney44
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So teams can use the bye week to their advantage? Who would have thought.
CuseVegas
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We all know you were dead wrong back in 2004 if you wanted Pasqualoni out- that is not up for debate lol. Even non-football people could figure that out by now.
I've got to say, that as a die hard Cuse fan for ~40 years now it amazes me that, purely from a football perspective, that some folks still don't understand how detrimental it was to our program to fire Coach Pasqualoni. Losing decades of relationships and starting from scratch has (mostly) been hell to watch for the past 20 years.
I say this not towards anyone in particular... but to me, it is honestly ridiculous in 2024 to still be trying to say we should have fired Pasqualoni. To me, the people that still think we should have tanked the program back and fired P back in 2004 are toxic to our current situation. The main reason I am particularly in on Fran is because he completely disagrees with all the Pasqualoni hating and he mentioned George Deleone in his opening press conference... which all means to me that he actually knows how hard it is to win football games and recruit NFL-caliber players.
I know it is human nature for people to never admit they were wrong... but the P-hating fans were wrong, and their vocal negativity truly hurt the program. That said... it is OK to have been wrong about a coaching change 20 years ago. While Pasqualoni is still alive, I think Cuse fans should embrace reality and appreciate what we had... that has always been my feeling. Is Syracuse really the kind of place where our great coaches get run out of town and never return to be honored? Nobody has matched him or come close... it was a very stupid idea to run him and Ray Rice out of town. To me some people need to just 'let go' and laugh about how wrong they were back in 2004 in order for us to move forward and enjoy being Cuse fans.
I've got to say, that as a die hard Cuse fan for ~40 years now it amazes me that, purely from a football perspective, that some folks still don't understand how detrimental it was to our program to fire Coach Pasqualoni. Losing decades of relationships and starting from scratch has (mostly) been hell to watch for the past 20 years.
I say this not towards anyone in particular... but to me, it is honestly ridiculous in 2024 to still be trying to say we should have fired Pasqualoni. To me, the people that still think we should have tanked the program back and fired P back in 2004 are toxic to our current situation. The main reason I am particularly in on Fran is because he completely disagrees with all the Pasqualoni hating and he mentioned George Deleone in his opening press conference... which all means to me that he actually knows how hard it is to win football games and recruit NFL-caliber players.
I know it is human nature for people to never admit they were wrong... but the P-hating fans were wrong, and their vocal negativity truly hurt the program. That said... it is OK to have been wrong about a coaching change 20 years ago. While Pasqualoni is still alive, I think Cuse fans should embrace reality and appreciate what we had... that has always been my feeling. Is Syracuse really the kind of place where our great coaches get run out of town and never return to be honored? Nobody has matched him or come close... it was a very stupid idea to run him and Ray Rice out of town. To me some people need to just 'let go' and laugh about how wrong they were back in 2004 in order for us to move forward and enjoy being Cuse fans.
