Today’s
topic deals with two Upstate coaches’ efforts to resuscitate moribund football
programs, and how they compare to their predecessors.
Marrone’s
Orange men are 7-5 and heading to their second bowl game in three years. His
four-season mark is still a sub-.500 24-25, but what he’s done has been very
impressive when you consider the mess he inherited.
Sadly,
little progress has been made, record-wise, farther west, at One Bills Drive.
Late into his third season, Gailey is 14-29. Dick Jauron, the man he succeeded,
was 24-33 in three-and-a-half seasons. Mike Mularkey, who returns to the Ralph this
Sunday as Jacksonville’s head coach, was a more respectable 14-18 in his two
seasons, which included a 9-7 season, the Bills only winning record of the past
decade.
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