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Syracuse is Marrone's true love

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

If life were a poker game, Doug Marrone just filled an inside straight. It is hard enough to launch your professional career wanting to be a college football head coach. Assistant coaching offices are filled with men waiting for a chance at one of 120 FBS schools. Not one school, but one out of 120. Once they get one of those jobs, they want another one. Nick Saban did not become Exhibit A of the Coach as Mercenary because he doesn't know how to win. Alabama is his fourth head coaching job i ...

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