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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 434425, member: 289"]
...the way the Cornhuskers used to hammer everybody else, including, sometimes, Wisconsin, (Barry Alvarez played linebacker for Bob Devaney and patterend the Wisconsin program after Nebraska), I began to wonder if we'd ever see Syracuse have a dominant team like that. It may sound crazy, but our offense this year has looked very potent at times with Nassib throwing to Lemon and Sales and Smith running downhill. We will have to replace some people but some of the recruits look like they might turn out to be even better than what we had. Doug Marrone, being a former offensive tackle, I'm sure wants to have a strong offensive line each year and the one we had this year was the best since the late 80's. He's also a former Saints offensive coach who longs to have that type of offense on the collegiate level and we somewhat resembled that at times this season. I love the way Jerome Smith and Adonis Ameen-Moore ran "downhill" this year with Prince-Tyson Gulley as a change of pace. I think Scott Shafer is an excellent defensive coach, What he needs are big mobile linebakcers like Derrell Smith and Doug Hogue, rather than overgrown D-backs like we seem to have now. But those kinds of guys may be in the pipeline.
 
Wisconsin was terrible for years until Alvarez built the program up to what it is today and handed it over to Brett Bielema. Last year they averaged 236 yards rushing and 234 yards passing and 44 points a game. I don't think we will ever be Oregon or Alabama but I wonder if we could be Wisconsin someday.
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