Syracuse, N.Y. — He is a man who could just as well hold his media briefings while sitting on a porch swing with iced tea in hand and a slight breeze brushing up against his face.
Dino Babers' immediate predecessors — beginning with Dick MacPherson and trundling though Paul Pasqualoni, Greg Robinson, Doug Marrone and Scott Shafer — were wholly unlike this guy.
They rambled or bored or moralized or scowled or defied. Each, meanwhile, pretty much treated every game as equal parts treatise and referendum … and did so with pusses and voices that precluded the need for any scoreboard.