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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3589972, member: 27"]
I think we beat BC, Liberty and Pitt if we had hit the transfer wire as hard and as well as those schools did.

With the major fundamental change to transfer rules, we have to do better at attracting transfers to the program.  Not sure if this is a function of Dino’s excessive loyalty to his players, bad internal assessments of our existing players, the unattractiveness of Syracuse as a place to transfer to, a lack of a proper budget and staff to identify and woo transfers we need.  Probably a function of all of these things.

But it needs to change if Syracuse is to establish a winning program.  If schools like BC, Rutgers and Pitt can attract multiple impact transfers that help their team immediately, we should be able to as well.  The transfers immediately eligible rule is a paradigm shift in college football and the teams that react to it the quickest and the best are going to have a big advantage over the rest.

At the least, we have the ability to offer immediate playing time for many positions.  That alone should make us very attractive to a lot of talented kids stuck behind even more talented players on other programs.

This is one of one make or break times for Dino and his staff.  They don’t need to bring in 20 transfers.  The roster is in pretty good shape right now.  They need to retain the players we have and just add a couple of players at a couple of positions to balance our roster and address some pretty major issues with quality depth.
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