AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. -- Dino Babers searches for a way to properly contextualize all he believes about his new regime at Syracuse, but it’s tough. How does he explain a system he’s purposefully worked to keep undefined, unexpected?
What he wants to do at Syracuse is grandiose. He wants to take one of college football’s most tradition-rich but least-interesting programs (at least for the last decade) and make it relevant.
This requires some outside-the-box thinking, and while that comes naturally to Babers, it’s not always easy to extrapolate those big ideas percolating in his head into a nuanced explanation for outsiders.