By halftime of Saturday’s Syracuse Orange football game, I was ready to write about there was no other choice but to fire Dino Babers.
After all, Syracuse had just managed to botch yet another late-half drive with poor clock and personnel management, en route to a missed field goal that sent the Orange into the break down 19-13 when a 20-19 lead was well within reach. And when I say “well within reach,” I mean having the ball at the one-yard line with two timeouts, yet squandering that in new and frustrating ways I’m not sure I’ve witnessed before.