Published 9/25/2008
by Nick Condit
at Bleacher Report - College Football
Syracuse football head coach Greg Robinson is 8-31 during his four-year tenure at Syracuse. That's just plain awful.
Syracuse fans have wanted his head for years, but Robinson was not fired after last season by AD Daryl Gross. Instead, Gross gave his coach one more chance.
What has he done with it? Absolutely nothing.
No matter what the problem is, Greg Robinson can't allow his team to be 1-3 right now as he's fighting for his job.
He needed to start the season off with a win at Northwestern, which was reasonable, but got blown out. He needed to beat lowly Akron but lost by two touchdowns. He needed to have his team compete in some way against Penn State, but instead they looked like a high school team.
He needed to blow out DI-AA Northeastern but allowed them to score three touchdowns on his defense—the same defensive scheme that supposedly won a Super Bowl for the Broncos years back.
Famous SU running back Jim Brown told CBS Sportsline, "Oh, it's terrible. I like the coach ...
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