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If I were him, I’d go be a position coach at Hawaii and enjoy the last few years of coaching. At some point it sucks to coach when things don’t go right. Go be in Hawaii and enjoy!

But I feel bad for him (although he made oodles of money) for the drop in his coaching.

Wish the guy nothing but the best for he and his family.
 
Dino Babers won’t return to Arizona for second season as assistant coach (report)

"Babers' job at Arizona had largely been portrayed as more of a bridge to help Brennan and a new staff jumpstart their tenure in Tucson than as a potential permanent hire...Former Syracuse defensive coordinator Brian Ward is Arizona State’s defensive coordinator. Ward recently signed a three-year contract extension that pays an average of more than $1 million over the length of the deal."
 
TexanMark said:
Some first class irony there
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Good guy who has been exposed as kind of a fraud over the years. Guy made a great chunk of money though. He had a healthy ego every step of the way as well. A position coach that got over his head and ran out of gas to really be successful in the modern landscape. You can either complain about it or work with what the game dictates in its present state.
 
Keep thinking about what he thinks about Cuse’s season. Assume if asked he would deny seeing any headlines.
 
Whitey23 said:
Keep thinking about what he thinks about Cuse’s season. Assume if asked he would deny seeing any headlines.
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I think most coaches have blinders and pay attention to what they have directly in front of them. Fran implied that a few times this year, so I don't think it would be Dino just throwing out a line. When told of the record I think he would say he was happy for the seniors.
 
sufandu said:
I think most coaches have blinders and pay attention to what they have directly in front of them. Fran implied that a few times this year, so I don't think it would be Dino just throwing out a line. When told of the record I think he would say he was happy for the seniors.
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Yes and no. Fran talked about being in touch with Kirby, who's his mentor, of course. But he also said, "you're welcome" to Clemson right after the Miami game. There's no way dino isn't aware that we're 9-3, ranked and beat 3 ranked teams this year. And it's gotta sting. Fran is doing a lot of the things Dino portrayed as "not possible" at Syracuse.
 
cali315phan said:
Yes and no. Fran talked about being in touch with Kirby, who's his mentor, of course. But he also said, "you're welcome" to Clemson right after the Miami game. There's no way dino isn't aware that we're 9-3, ranked and beat 3 ranked teams this year. And it's gotta sting. Fran is doing a lot of the things Dino portrayed as "not possible" at Syracuse.
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I think that fits the blinders. Keeping in touch with Kirby is natural since, like you said, he's a mentor. Clemson is in the conference. It makes sense to know what's going on in conference. I doubt he knows details of other teams' records outside of the playoff picture and in other conferences. It would make sense that Dino is aware of the record and the win over Miami. I doubt he knows we beat 3 ranked teams. Most people outside the Syracuse fan base don't think we beat 3 ranked teams. Georgia Tech was ranked for one weak after beating what we now know was an overrated FSU and never made it back in after we knocked them out.

People here spend way more time thinking about Dino than he does thinking about us.
 
IthacaBarrel said:
Good guy who has been exposed as kind of a fraud over the years. Guy made a great chunk of money though. He had a healthy ego every step of the way as well. A position coach that got over his head and ran out of gas to really be successful in the modern landscape. You can either complain about it or work with what the game dictates in its present state.
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Lot of coaches not fit for this landscape anymore. Brian Kelly is another. Being the “CEO” isn’t enough as you have to recruit players nonstop even when they’re on your team.
 
Any CEO who said it's not possible to make money at my company would be fired immediately. A coach who said winning here is not possible should be too. Dino lost his faith here and was so self limiting that he put himself on the road to failure. Wonder if he still closes his eyes and tries to imagine?, when faith finally gets put in place with evidence.
 
richmondcuse03 said:
Lot of coaches not fit for this landscape anymore. Brian Kelly is another. Being the “CEO” isn’t enough as you have to recruit players nonstop even when they’re on your team.
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Yep, I am sure it's exhausting and a complete Pain ITA. These guys get paid huge money but at the end of the day, it's what you sign up for. One of Fran's best attributes if not his best is he knows how to play the game as well as anyone when it comes to the current landscape and he doesn't hide from it or make excuses or play the remember when game like a lot of these guys.
 
CanadianSU said:
I don’t mean to be a d but this nice guy thing… I mean I’m sure he wasn’t mean but he didn’t really go out of his way either to be “nice” from what I understand.

*shrug*
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he most certainly did not, like I said, Dino was pretty arrogant and carried a very healthy ego behind the scenes. He rode the wave and cashed all the checks after 2018 but did not build on it at all because I don't think Mr. dino thought he would be here after 18 or 19.

he's also one of the coaches that loved to play the "remember when" game which gets so old quickly
 
IthacaBarrel said:
Good guy who has been exposed as kind of a fraud over the years. Guy made a great chunk of money though. He had a healthy ego every step of the way as well. A position coach that got over his head and ran out of gas to really be successful in the modern landscape. You can either complain about it or work with what the game dictates in its present state.
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He wasn't over his head at Eastern Illinois or Bowling Green and coached us to 10-3 in 2018 and a couple of seasons where we got off to great starts and sagged after our QB got hurt.

But Fran was a step up to the next level.
 
IthacaBarrel said:
Most coaches recruit a few good players. Greg Robinson did too
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Some of Marrone's most important players were Robinson recruits. Nassib and Lemon were GRob guys. Wasn't PTG as well? Dino did well with Shafer recruits.
 
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