Whatever you think of the results on the field so far, there’s no denying that Dino Babers brings a refreshing change the role of the Syracuse Football head coach: Realism.
Greg Robinson was the living embodiment of the This Is Fine meme, always following up losses by saying they were about to turn it around. Just you wait. And so we kept waiting. Hell, the guy was still talking about how good things were in spite of the evidence years later.
Doug Marrone wasn’t quite the eternal optimist but he was a pretty good coach-speaker.