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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 526578, member: 289"]
Doug did a very good job of getting this program up off the floor and leaves us in a much better situation than he inherited. Shafer seems off to a good start in his hires and recruiting, despite the fall-out from so many coaches leaving. We may have taken a step back after several steps forward and there are more forward steps to come. 
 
The idea that Marrone was going to stay here forever because he was an alum and this was his "Dream job" was incredibly naive. I expected him to go after a successful transition to the ACC, having re-established us as as a winning program and thus as an ACC contender. I think if he'd left at that point, we would have wished him "bon voyage" and followed his NFL career with more than jsut interest.
 
But he left with the job half-done, only weeks after telling us that "I have to do a better job" over and over again. (it turns out he wanted a better job). He was supposedly on short lists for NFL head jobs when he came here and would surely be a candidate for better jobs than the Bills if he turned us into regular ACC contenders.  He didn't have to go now to get an NFL job. he didn't have to come here to get one. Something went very sour behind the scenes and his leaving suddenly and no public statement to fans after he'd stressed to us how much he wanted this job left us with a sense of abandonment.  His statement that he wanted a Bills coaching staff "with NFL experience" and then raiding most of the SU staff, which had little NFL experience seemed somehow penal.
 
It's time to move on and I'm still optimistic about the future but the memory of Doug's leaving will always be a bad one.
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