After another 'moral victory' many fans may be looking for Scott Shafer to get one more year. But the Orange can't enter 2016 with a lame-duck coach, and Mark Coyle is going to need to make a decision, one way or another, on Shafer's future very soon.
There’s been a lot of talk around these parts on what to do with Shafer, as the team is now 6-16 over the past two seasons, and looking far closer (at least by record) to the team coached by Greg Robinson than the one inherited from his predecessor, Doug Marrone.
In the last few weeks, I’ve heard three schools of thought:
- Shafer is terrible and should be fired
- Shafer is amazing and the doubters will be proven wrong in time
- Give him one more year to figure this out, and we'll decide then
After another close loss to a top-ranked Clemson team - a moral victory much in line with the loss to LSU earlier in the season - the tendency is to fall closer to option #3 and see if he can finally turn some of those moral victories into actual victories.