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[QUOTE="Pyle, post: 900258, member: 137"]
Never. You don't fire coaches in Syracuse for having winning seasons. We aren't Alabama and never will be. I appreciate your 'want to' but reality is this is a small private university with a limited fan base, small stadium, in the snowiest city in the United States. It's the same reason 4 and 5 star recruits will never come here consistently as you asked. This isn't a school that can compete with the likes of Alabama, FSU, Mich, USC, etc. Those schools have more to offer big time athletes. We will get lucky and get an occasional one here or there, but the big programs have the fan support, financial support, facilities, and tradition to keep them recruiting better than SU for quite some time. Unless we get some big time donor to go all Oregon on us and build football's version of disney land, we just aren't going to be one of those schools. So we follow the other manta, get some good kids, with great character, great work ethic, and lots of raw ability and turn them into football players. Did you know of all the recent big time draftees, none of them were 4/5 star kids. The Jones brothers and Nassib were 2/3 star guys. Gross and Grob tried to turn us into USC, and it resulted in the worst 4 year period in our history. We are not USC, we are, S-U!! We are blue-collar, hard-nosed, and win or lose teams know they were in a fight...that is our mantra and our only path to success.
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