Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="supp, post: 3203280, member: 702"]
I've been thinking about this too, whether he'll be the next Edsall.  I found this interesting Wikipedia site that lists all of the coaches with non-consecutive tenures at one school.  Looking at recent history, it's a mixed bag.  There are the obvious failures like Johnny Majors, John Robinson, Edsall, etc..  There are guys in the middle like Petrino.  Others like Bill Snyder seemingly picked up where they left off.  Not sure what the pattern for success/failure is, if there is one. It could be the length of the gap between coaching tenures.  The shorter the better.  I think expectations figure in too, i.e. the more successful you were the first time around (and the less successful the program has been since you left) the more pressure and expectations there will be.  Mack Brown will have a tough time of it but at least two more years of Sam Howell will help.

Schiano has been away for 9 years and they haven't had much success since he left.  He's been coaching college ball the past three, so that helps.  He's not coming out of retirement and he knows the B1G intimately.  Rutgers is in rough shape and there's no room for error in the Eastern side of the conference.  I think he'll have some success but it will be tough to break out of the 6-7 win range consistently.  His former success might be his downfall.  Some fans will expect 9-10 win seasons.  The best we as Syracuse fans can hope for is that he weakens the big dogs in NJ by recruiting what would usually be their guys but doesn't get enough of them to be much of a threat.  A slightly stronger Rutgers could mean a slightly weaker B1G, which ironically could help us in NJ.

[URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_college_football_head_coaches_with_non-consecutive_tenure[/URL]
[/QUOTE]

Verification

What is a Syracuse fan's favorite color?