Coaching Blunder at UNC we need to avoid

[charles]

Mack Brown the newly appointed head coach at UNC in less than 24hrs has already made 1 major coaching blunder Hire; Greg Robinson age 67 and a former buddy and coach at Texas underneath Brown when he was the head coach there will be the next D. coordinator at UNC; This guy has not coached since 2014 and has a terrible track record as a DC ; We need to avoid this mistake;

 

[Deleted member 2897]

Mack Brown the newly appointed head coach at UNC in less than 24hrs has already made 1 major coaching blunder Hire; Greg Robinson age 67 and a former buddy and coach at Texas underneath Brown when he was the head coach there will be the next D. coordinator at UNC; This guy has not coached since 2014 and has a terrible track record as a DC ; We need to avoid this mistake;

It couldn't happen to a better "school".

 

[CuseJacket]

How did Syracuse go from an annual top 30 team to college football laughingstock, you say?

1) 25 worst college football coaching hires in history - Page 18 - FanSided

8. Greg Robinson, Syracuse

• 
  
  
  • Hired: January 2005
  • Fired: November 2008
  • Record at Syracuse: 5-37* (.119)
  • Career head coaching record: 5-37* (.119)

Syracuse was once one of the proudest college football programs in the country. The Orange were 11-0 under Ben Schwartzwalder in 1959, winning the national championship. Ernie Davis won the 1961 Heisman Trophy while donning the famous No. 44 also worn by NFL Hall of Famers Jim Brown, Floyd Little and Larry Csonka. **** MacPherson led the Orange to an 11-0-1 record and a No. 4 final ranking in 1987, and Paul Pasqualoni posted a 107-59-1 record and led the program to nine bowl games in 14 seasons as head coach from 1991-2004.

However, Pasqualoni fell out of favor with the Syracuse faithful after three straight non-winning seasons from 2002-04, and he was fired and replaced with Greg Robinson. A longtime defensive coordinator in both the NFL and major college football, Robinson joined the Orange after a brief stint at Texas in 2004.

In his first season at Syracuse, Robinson’s squad finished 1-10, setting a school record for losses in a season. Though the team improved to 4-8 the following season, a 2-10 record in 2007 gave Robinson the only two double-digit losing seasons in history. He was fired with two games left to play in his fourth year at the helm, which he finished with a record of 3-9.

2) Gallo Goes There: 10 Worst Head Coach Hires In College Football

6. Greg Robinson, Syracuse, 2005

“We didn’t want someone that was just going to be competitive with the rest of the coaches in the Big East. We wanted someone special. This is going to be a lot of fun, and we’re going to have a blast doing this together.” – Daryl Gross, Syracuse’s athletics director

Greg Robinson wasn’t competitive with the coaches in the Big East. He wasn’t competitive with coaches anywhere. In four years at Syracuse, the former NFL defensive coordinator was 10-37 – with the only two 10-loss seasons in Syracuse history — and 3-25 in the Big East. As you may remember, the Big East wasn’t known as a college football power. If the Big East was the kids the power conferences bullied, Robinson’s Syracuse teams were the kids those bullied kids then shoved in a locker.

But Robinson went out in style. In his final press conference before he was fired, Robinson read “The Little Engine That Could” and then said: “I still think I can.” He’s alone in that belief.

What did we learn? Don’t hire Greg Robinson. (This is a lesson Michigan and Texas unfortunately learned too late.)

3) 25 Worst College Football Coaching Tenures of the BCS Era

6. Greg Robinson, Syracuse
Record: 10-37 (2005-08)

Although Paul Pasqualoni has struggled at Connecticut, he went 26-23 over his last four seasons at Syracuse from 2001-04. While Robinson wasn’t inheriting a roster full of talent, he wasn’t getting a bare cupboard either. The Orange went from being a consistent bowl team to one that struggled just to get a couple of wins a year under Robinson’s watch. The Orange never won more than one Big East game in a single year under Robinson, and he recorded the program’s only double-digit losing seasons.

 

[MikeJackets1967]

Mack Brown the newly appointed head coach at UNC in less than 24hrs has already made 1 major coaching blunder Hire; Greg Robinson age 67 and a former buddy and coach at Texas underneath Brown when he was the head coach there will be the next D. coordinator at UNC; This guy has not coached since 2014 and has a terrible track record as a DC ; We need to avoid this mistake;

You hit the nail on the head