At 9-3 in year three, we couldn’t be happier to have Dino Babers as the Syracuse Orange’s football coach.
We felt that way when he was hired for 2016, and the idea’s only grown since: We made one of the best hires of that coaching carousel, and now Dino is now among the best of them all.
On Wednesday, Syracuse.com approached that question and ranked Babers third out of all 30 hires that offseason, behind just Scott Frost (then at UCF) and Kirby Smart at Georgia. That’s fine. But the bigger piece of information came from Floyd Little, who revealed for the first time what Syracuse’s final candidate list looked like, along with Babers:
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