Wildhack Press Conference: 11 AM

[All4SU]

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[All4SU]

 

[kcsu]

I for one am enjoying it very much and hoping for some additional, as I did 2018, however that does not mean I am forgetting 2019, 2020,and 2021. Dino has to do more than a flash in the pan to reinstill confidence in his stewardship of the program and win back consistent fan attendence in the dome. The best moves he has made have been staff changes which were probably forced on him.

Dino gets credit for keeping the team together and for finally hiring someone to replace Lewis however I give JW most of the credit. He was the one that made sure Dino hired a special teams coach and made the funds available to hire the new coaches. Dino is very lucky as he has made an enormous amount of money and received unprecedented support from Syracuse. It will be interesting to see if he repays SU with loyalty if he becomes successful.

 

[orangecuse]

My response was to a different poster who used the word atrocious. Not disregarding anything. My opinion is based on an evaluation that disregards 2020 as a historical anomaly. I clearly list rationally supported impacts to justify that exclusion. Others choose to treat 2020 as a normal year and compare it to 2018. I simply am stunned by that approach and challenge those who hold it to engage in a logical discourse detailing the empirical impacts that support that position.

In my mind, the football program over Dino’s tenure has been average when viewed as a Division I team, below average as a power 5 team but using terms like abysmal or atrocious borders on inane hyperbole

As previously noted, you are free to believe as you see fit..."in my mind."

Just because your belief is; clearly listed rationally supported impacts to justify that conclusion, doesn't necessarily change/influence others whose train of thought doesn't align with yours. Perhaps, their thinking was based upon what they observed (empirically) comprehensively leading up to that time, and the particular weight, attention, etc., they chose to give such particulars over those same things that you perhaps viewed as not so much a factor?

Years of bad hiring decisions, multiple consistently questionable in game decisions, deficiencies in building an adequate P5 roster (foremost at the most crucial QB position) etc. were seemingly more consequential contributing factors to 2020's "historical anomaly." You recall us having no better option than using a TE in Culpepper at QB after Devito went down? Etc., etc. Perhaps, you view that as illogical discourse in your mind.

Fact is, going into this season, Babers' overall/historical ACC record to date (in a mediocre P5 conference) was 15-35. If you view that saying such a record is 'below average' versus one who chooses such inanely hyperbolic words as abysmal and/or atrocious, so be it.