Paul Pasqualoni (sp)

[Yakuza Rich]

Oh, wait until Yakuza Rich sees this...

I saw it last night and almost got violently ill.

Seriously, if he's named head coach I will not watch one minute of Cowboys football.

And if he's named the full time HC in 2011, I start looking for a new team to root for.

I went thru his crap for 13 years and imagine every 'un-fun' year like this one under him. It's funny though because it goes to show you how some coaches know how to act and get themselves hired because he's good friends with Belichick so perhaps even the almighty Belichick can't see thru his act. Although Belichick has never hired Pasqualoni (maybe Belichick is a genius).

If you ever get the chance, DVR a Syracuse football game when he was their HC on ESPN Classic. In the past 6 months I've re-watched 2 of them (SU vs. Oklahoma and SU vs. Virginia Tech). You'll swear that he's the biggest moron that ever coached in college...which is saying a lot.

If he's hired, even as an interim coach...that really tests my loyalty as a fan because:

1) it would show that Jerry really has no clue as to what a good coach is in football.

2) it may show that Jerry truly wants a puppet who will do whatever Jerry asks.

3) Pasqualoni doesn't even deserve to be an interim coach. He had his chance and he sucked the first time around and he was just fired from the Dolphins as their D-Coordinator.

I'm not Garrett fan, but I have some hope that I could be wrong on him and if anything, I think Garrett may be ready some day...but it's probably about 5 years down the road. I'm not wrong on Pasqualoni, his track record proves it. And he'll never be good because he's had the chance and has failed time and time again.

Hiring Pasqualoni would be about the equivalent of re-hiring Campo as the HC. At least my Syracuse has finally gotten themselves a real football coach. It would be nice to see if my favorite pro team could someday do the same thing.







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[Yakuza Rich]

Pasqualoni shouldn't even be the D-Coordinator. The Fins offense in '08 was superb and they ran the crap out of the ball and never turned it over (NFL record for least giveaways in a season). It masked the fact that the defense wasn't very good which showed up in '09.

The thing about Pasqualoni's teams at SU were just how poor they looked at the basic techniques of football regardless of the position they played. Simple tackling techniques were downright abominable. I never saw a coach that year after year, had defensive backs who could never turn the right away to find the football. SU fired him (finally) and the team went in the tank. While Greg Robinson was an awful football coach, SU would have had losing records had Pasqualoni stayed.

For starters, they were STILL using the wishbone offense...and they are a DOME team. But the cupboard was getting less and less and other colleges like UConn and Rutgers were getting stronger.

IIRC, his record against top 10 teams is 1-13 and the one victory came against Florida, at the Dome, with Dick MacPherson's (the coach before Pasqualoni) players.

And his record against top 25 teams was something like sub-.400.

Finally SU got themselves a real coach in Doug Marrone and last year, when the team had zero talent (and it still has zero talent, but is now 6-2), the first thing I noticed was that this was the first time in 16 years that I saw a Syracuse team that could actually tackle and actually looked well coached from a technique perspective.

Remember, Syracuse had MASSIVE amounts of talent. Here's just a list of what I could come up, all during the Pasqualoni era:

Will Allen DB
Antonio Anderson DE
Dee Brown RB
Keith Bulluck LB
Rob Burnett DE
Rob Carpenter WR
Kirby Dar Dar RB
Eric Downing DT
Dwight Freeney DE
Chris Gedney TE
Morlon Greewood LB
Marvin Harrison WR
Qadry Ismail WR
Kevin Johnson WR
Kyle Johnson FB
Tebucky Jones S
Rob Konrad FB
Orlindo Mare K
Donovan McNabb QB
Kevin Mitchell DT (who was a TERROR in college)
Johnnie Morant WR
James Mungro RB
Pat O'Neill P (probably the best punter AND kicker I've seen in NCAA)
Clifton Smith LB
Adam Terry OT
Melvin Tuten OT
David Tyree WR
Roland Williams TE
Dave Wohlabaugh C

And yet after '92 (well before McNabb and after MacPherson's talent), he had *one* 10 win season in the pitiful Big East.






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