ESPN's Pat Forde Takes a Page From the Dennis Dodd School of Journalism

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Posted by DCS

Add Pat Forde as another national sports writer who thinks Syracuse made a bad move by hiring Doug Marrone. The criticism, as it's been for all naysayers of this move, is that:

...athletic director Darryl Gross goes out and hires an NFL assistant with no
head-coaching experience. Where have we seen that before? Oh yeah, with
freshly fired Greg Robinson, whose four-year tenure was an absolute train
wreck.

I'll at least give him credit for ripping other major college football hires equally, and ranking Auburn's hiring of Gene Chizik as the worst (take notes Dodd).

Other links for your Thursday enjoyment:

• "Miami Mitch" of the College Football Place gives a detailed breakdown and prediction of the St. Pete Bowl
• Brett McMurphy shows us how USF is better against Non-Conference opponents
• Regrets; he had a few: WVU Senior Ellis Lankster
• ESPN's Brian Bennett ranks Big East offensive linemen
• Rutgers' Jourdan Brooks is a "hair-raising" YouTube sensation
• Syracuse Post-Standard's Donnie Webb likes the potential of Syracuse to nab a tight end who is transferring from Notre Dame