Syracuse fires Greg Robinson

Hint: Don't hire someone who has never been a head coach, was villified a couple of times for being a bad NFL coordinator and has no recruiting ties to the east. You know, like the last time.

 

Bear shits in the woods, dog bites man, Syracuse fires Greg Robinson. Film at 11.

 

What channel?

 

What they need a is guy with east coast, and preferably New York, ties. Somebody who has college head coach experience as well.

The best guy I can think of off the top of my head is a current NFL DC with 14 years college head coaching experience. He won three outright conference titles, shared a fourth and led his teams to nine bowl games.

Only problem is, that's the guy Gross fired before he hired Robinson.

 

You aren't going to do a helluva lot better than Randy Edsall. He would be perfect for this job, and Syracuse knows it. It's just a matter of how much money they'd be willing to throw at him.

 

They're probably not going to do better, though they'd have to. The guy's already in his fifties, if I'm not mistaken, and it's going to take him quite a few years to turn that program around.

It works for Paterno and Bowden, sure. But I don't know how many kids would really want to go play for an older coach who has a spotty record of winning with a boring offense in a bland conference where it rains all the time.

 

Jeez, reading up on Gross, it doesn't sound like he'd be happy making the conventional pick, like an Edsall. Yet another former assistant AD from USC (like Barbara Hedges) causing havoc.
What people don't realize is USC has about 20 assistant ADs...

But I do think SU needs a coach with a winning record as a head coach and Edsall's four games under .500 right now. Two bowl games, one win.

 

That's a decent record for UConn.

 

That's a REALLY decent record for UConn, which has been Division I-A for less than 10 years.

He can win in Cowtown. He could win in 'Cuse. But I'd be surprised if UConn lets him go...or why he'd really want to go to 'Cuse. Use the Orange's interest to get another raise and extension? Sure. but why would he want to take over a longshot when he's already turned a longshot into a BCS contender?

 

You really can't count UConn's first few years since it was a transitional program. Much the same as South Florida, although Webby U. has a better recruiting pool to tap.

 

I'm thinking if you want a coach who was successful at UConn, has experience recruiting in the East and even spent a year in New York as a kid, you go with Skip Holtz.
Former EC head coach Steve Logan, now the OC at BC wouldn't be bad either.

 

He's got longtime Syracuse connections, BYH.