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Special teams coordinator Bob Casullo directs the kick-off team Tuesday as the
Syracuse Orange prepare for Satruday’s season opener against Minnesota.
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oug Marrone wants you to know it will be
just another workday in a coaching career
filled with them.
“Wherever I’ve been as a player or
coach, every game that week was the most important
game for me,” Marrone said. “Whether it’s the first
game or the last game, the NFC Championship or
AFC playoff, every game was the most important
game. If I start putting one game being more important than the other I’ve sold my team short.”
Thus, by default, the season-opener between the
Syracuse University football team and Minnesota
at noon Saturday (ESPN2) in the Carrier Dome is
the most important game in Marrone’s career. Not
because it is his first as a head coach. Not because it
is at his alma mater. Not because his beloved Orange
stands at a critical crossroads in its mostly proud history and it is Marrone’s job to steer it safely back
onto the right path.
Simply because it is the next game. Yet, it is
so much more than that for a community that has
watched its team go 10-37 over the last four seasons,
sink toward the bottom of the Big East and
the national barrel and become the butt
of jokes in the national media. …
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