The
Reality of College Sports
Clare
woke up yesterday to a text from a friend who’d heard that the Syracuse
football coaching staff had just been fired.
That’ll make you want to get out of bed.
Scott
Shafer’s Orange started the season with three straight wins, only to follow
that with eight straight losses; it’s never a good thing to go a combined 2-13
the last two seasons in the ACC. By all
accounts, Shafer is a really nice guy who may have been too loyal to his
defensive coordinator, a close friend.
After a 3-9 record last season and a new athletic director wanting to
see improvement in the program, Shafer found himself on the proverbial hot
seat. Syracuse was his eighth coaching
job in 24 years of college football.
So,
now Clare’s boyfriend Chris is left in a kind of limbo. As a graduate student, he can’t be fired, but
that doesn’t mean the new regime will give him the same chance to coach the way
the old offensive coordinator did. You
watch a college football game, one team beats up on another, and you don’t
think twice about it. But somewhere there
comes a loss too many. Yesterday, it
happened in Syracuse.
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