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The Daily OrangeFB | Robinson still defiant in face of speculation
Abstract:
By the end of Saturday's game, Greg Robinson's status as Syracuse head coach was more tenuous than ever. By losing its seventh game of the season, the Orange became ineligible for a bowl game for the fourth consecutive year, likely ending Robinson's chances to return as head coach next season....
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Marc LeVine
posted 11/10/08 @ 11:05 AM EST
This loss was no more the nail in his coffen than the freak win over Louisville was to be his resurrection as head coach of Syracuse. In fact, this was a good loss for the 'Cuse. Why? because when Robinson is finally let go there will be no one wondering whether or not his program was turning the corner.
You know how that one goes. The guy headed out the door gives us a glimpse of a turnaround. He gets fired. The new coach comes in and changes things around and there is some more losing before he sets the program straight. We lose a few games and start to second guess our decision to fire the old head coach. With the loss to Rutgers, we can all be reasonably sure that Coach R. is never going to field a winning team at SU and move on.
The only true sadness here is losing to Rutgers, a team we used to own. Rutgers always wanted to say they were the program equivalent to Syracuse. Over the past two decades they got a few quality wins against us, during our better seasons, and tried to sell the idea that we were overrated as a football program. Now, they are a much better program than we are - even this year. This really hurts.
Coach Robinson must go and Syracuse need to put the rah-rah back in the game as soon as possible. Randy Edsall is the guy we need. Like Boeheim, Edsall is an orange guy with orange pride. That's the added dimension that makes him particularly appealing. He'll stay, build, win and - himself - revel in the success, not just create it for the rest of us.