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[QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5235976, member: 173"]
We know he stayed quiet because we didn't find out about it until after Coach P was fired.  If all he did was complain about it behind closed doors while being ignored for over a decade, the difference between that and staying completely quiet is nonexistent.

And no one is saying funding dried up and the next year we had a losing season - you're creating an absurd strawman of what is being said here.  We were underfunding the program for over a decade and it finally caught up to us.  The only way to think it’s an overblown issue is if you didn't ever go to peer schools and see their facilities compared to our - increasingly outdated - ones.  I vividly recall going to Va Tech and seeing what they had in the late 90s - as unpopular an opinion as this may be, Vick clearly made the right decision.  Va Tech was committed to winning.  Syracuse was not - at least not in the most important way, financially.

Riding things out with Coach P wasn't an option - the fan base had turned on him, that wasn't going to change with 5-7, 6-6 seasons going forward.   Changing coaches was absolutely required.  Likely the only thing sticking with Coach P for another 4- 5 years would have done is tarnish his legacy to the point the idea of bringing him back to be honored wouldn’t even be viable.
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