A couple of things I noticed in the articles today.
Dave Jacobs is teaching Fran's son how to snap. Dave always got a lot of crap on the board and some said "he never gave back". Putting aside for the moment that he gave back on the field, he also worked with a number of our kickers through the years. You don't know about that because he never felt it necessary to shine a spotlight on himself for helping with the team the way that some do...
But he has helped.
The other thing was the guy...new maybe?...who said that for the past 40 years, SU was a basketball school. It is true that JB's success was legendary, but apparently the guy missed the 15 year period starting with 1987.
We had one 11-win season, four 10-win seasons, three 9-win seasons, and two 8-win seasons. We also went to 12 bowls in an era where you didn't get a bowl bid simply for having a pulse, a .500 record, and no other plans for December.
That was a truly golden era for SU football, it featured many of the true greats, and lengthy success that was only duplicated in Ben's years before he fell off a cliff.
While true that he haven't done much lately, to act like the entire last 40 years was a washout is not true.
