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Syracuse football: Like Doug Marrone before him, Dino Babers must change a losing culture

(Stephen D. Cannerelli | scannerelli@syracuse.com)

Syracuse, N.Y. — Dino Babers is undertaking the biggest rebuilding job of his head-coaching career.

But seven years before Babers arrived here, back when he was at Baylor beginning to learn the offensive system he would one day bring to try to resurrect this program, a different coach was undertaking his own Syracuse football rebuild project.

There are parallels between what Doug Marrone needed to do and what Babers is now in the middle of procuring, and so it would be seem prudent to dissect how changing a losing culture can happen.