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[QUOTE="leftytg, post: 1874156, member: 2651"]
It is lacking in perspective to be making widespread conclusions on big picture questions like scheme and coaching acumen after two games.  Ward may or may not ultimately be the answer at coordinator, but he needs to have a chance to coach up a very young defense that is adjusting to a new scheme that doesn't particularly match their sizes or talents.  He also needs to get the chance to recruit the kinds of athletes with the kinds of measurable that work in the system.  Remember all the rescinded offers last year to recruits who (for the most part) ended up going to non P-5 schools?  The staff brought in some bigger players in the secondary and are in the process of bringing in more.  Right now Ward is like a chef who only has access to ingredients found in a gas station, and people are pissed that his food sucks.  He might be a bad chef, but no chef is going to put out great food working only with gas station ingredients.

For perspective, Briles went 4-8, 4-8, 7-6, before getting to 10-3.  Baylor in these years had to content with Oklahoma and Texas, much like how Syracuse has to contend with FSU and Clemson.  Too many people here bought into the overly optimistic time frames and had overly optimistic notions as to the talent levels on this team.  There is a LOT of work to be done, both in coaching up the current players and bringing in more talented players [B][I]whose measurables and attributes fit the particulars of what Syracuse is trying to do.[/I][/B]
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