IthacaMatt
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A lot of animosity to unpack here...
First of all, I don't care about how these kids do in the NFL, I care about their college production which is what they were recruited to SU to do. All of the guys I listed were/will continue to be producers in the ACC. ...
Babers is in year 3. The list of Shafers productive recruits I listed could possibly include 11 starters for this upcoming season. Babers definitely gets credit for coaching the team to wins over VT and Clemson, but Shafers recruits actually won those games.
Well, would we have won those games if Shafer was still coaching? I don't think so, personally. Shafer had meltdowns against big opponents, like that embarrassing showing against Clemson where he was shown on national TV shouting curses across the field at Dabo. He sent Dungey into a game when he knew he was already injured, and then his defense of that in the press conference afterwards was all you needed to know about his ability to lead.
Let's let Shafer slip into the past without this need to defend him so much. We went through this with Pasqualoni and DeLeone. Shafer's results speak for themselves. His wife may think he got screwed, but he didn't have the personality to be able to be an effective coach. He was way too emotional.