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

CBS's Dennis Dodd Hates Syracuse

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Posted by DCS

ESPN's Doug Gottlieb and Dick Vitale are used to drawing the ire of Syracuse fans during college basketball season. The Orange faithful may have another name to add to their "$h&t list," albeit for football, in Dennis Dodd. Dodd, a writer/blogger for CBS Sports claims that Syracuse made the worst hire of the year so far in Doug Marrone, amongst all the NCAA Division I-A football hirings (scroll down).

All you need to know about Dennis Dodd is that he considers the hiring of Gene Chizik (5-19 at Iowa State) by Auburn as a better hire than Marrone. WOW!! We're talking about Auburn; a program that could have gone out and hired pretty much anybody they wanted, but instead settled on Chizik.

As far as where I stand with Dodd aka D Squared aka DD, I'm going to keep my powder dry for now. I'll wait to see how next season shakes out for all these coaches he's ranked ahead of Marrone and kindly update him on the validity of his assessment then. But if anyone out there wants to express their own sentiments now, please do: http://www.sportsline.com/columns/writers/dodd.