When Dino Babers first arrived as head coach of the Syracuse Orange football team, he preached “belief without evidence” to earn faith from fans early. Despite losses piling up in years one and two, there were glimmers of what could be in the form of upsets against ranked Virginia Tech and Clemson. The payoff to those building seasons was year three — a 10-3 campaign that brought SU football back onto the national stage and into the top 25.
That was the evidence to justify the belief. The idea was we’d keep building from that point.