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[QUOTE="elimunelson, post: 2651781, member: 615"]
There was aspects of staleness but a bad coach wouldn't have gone into Chestnut Hill, against a team playing for their first (and still elusive) BCS appearance, and spanked them. To me, that showed me that the old goat could coach. He was far from perfect but when you dismiss a coach you NEED to have a plan of bringing in a guy who can build on the program and tighten up the issues from before. Hiring GERG was a Pete Carroll recommendation which made no sense for a Northeastern program in 2005. If there was any vision we could have hired Sean McDowell/Chip Kelley from UNH or Mark Whipple from Umass. Those would have been Syracuse like hires.

Pasqualoni was Syracuse's version of Frank Beamer or Kirk Ferentz. We had a guy who didn't crave attention, wasn't looking to lever other opportunities, and wanted to retire here. He brought an exciting brand of football to the hill for many years.  The university should have figured out a way to make it work with him and try and figure out why they were beginning to slip. School failed on every possible way w his exit. He was the president of the college football coaches too i recall as well. He was very well respected in the industry.

it angers me thinking about it. He was NOT perfect but was as good a coach you could have asked for at Syracuse in the 90s. It slipped at the end but u find ways to make it work.
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