Doesn't matter. There's a certain subset of the fanbase that have been beaten so far into submission as far as expectations that they'll take anything at this point as long as the HC seems like a nice guy and the team wins 5-7 games a year. I'm convinced of that.
I'm happy we won, especially with the effort that the OL put out, guys like Villari and then Shrader playing at maybe 60% if he's lucky. And it was fun to watch some old school pound the ground football for sure. But it's not sustainable and it's not a long-term answer. It
is the same song and dance with Dino every year. The roster never looks balanced enough to tackle a full season. We have a high propensity for penalties which tends to indicate a general lack of preparation. His aggressiveness as a coach has generally been shelved. Contingency management apparently isn't really a thing when you consider how damaged we become when we lose 1 or 2 front line players. But who cares - let's just give Dino kudos because he had to resort to a dinosaur era offense to defeat a 2-7 Pitt team (after a 5 game losing streak where we generally looked like hot garbage) because we don't have a QB on the roster that apparently can throw a forward pass outside of our injured starter. Mediocre is the best we can hope for out of a $4m a year HC. The kids like him, so that's enough. That's apparently the attitude.
Apparently this is a successful Syracuse program now:
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You literally can't make this stuff up.
