Dino Babers: ‘Belief without evidence, we’re a better team this year’

Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers believes that this year’s squad is miles ahead of last year’s team. ITLH breaks down his comments.

After four weeks of football the Syracuse football squad is exactly where they were last season, .500. Despite that similarity, head coach Dino Babers believes that this year’s squad is significantly better than last year’s team.

"“Belief without evidence. Having faith on things unseen. I think we’re playing well. The hard thing about our country and any football team is that it comes down to wins and losses. I know we’re getting better. But I can’t prove it in the box score. I can’t prove it with the win-loss record, but I will say we’re a better football team.This team would really get after the 2016 Syracuse football team. It would really get after that team. But the schedule may be so difficult and we may not be able to see it in the wins and losses, but we’ll see. It’s still a young season. We’re only a quarter of the way done. We’re at the same point we were last season, 2-2. We have 8 games left in our season with an opportunity to play 9 and we’re excited.”"

Dino Babers Press Conference Previewing NC State:

Belief without evidence. I first became aware of this term when my parents talked to me about Santa Claus. You better be good they said, you better watch out, Santa knows. The eye in the sky doesn’t lie, if you do bad he’ll know.

While you may not be able to see Santa, if you’re good and you believe, presents will be under the

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Christmas tree the next morning. This is the perfect parallel to what we have here with the Syracuse Orange.

The Christmas presents the Orange seek are wins and losses. That’s the evidence that Santa exists in our minds. For SU fans, wins and losses is the evidence that Dino Babers is doing his job and turning around the program.

Notice, if kids act bad they don’t get presents, which equates to if the football team doesn’t perform they don’t get wins or bowl berths. Which are ironically around the holiday season. So far Babers is 6-10 in his brief Orange career.

Not overly impressive by any means, but what were we expecting? Year one, he didn’t have any of his players and in some regards he overachieved. Now entering the magical prophecy year of 2017 where Babers’ team is supposed to be clicking on all cylinders sits at .500 on the season.

Riddle me this, before the season began most Orange fans expected this team to be 3-1. Those three wins coming against the apparent cream puffs on the schedule, well knowing the brutal beating that was coming Week 4 against the LSU Tigers in Tiger Stadium.

Instead what happened was the Orange beat a few cream puffs, got shocked by one, and instead of getting embarrassed on national television, actually appeared competent. We discussed this off air in Syracuse, which would you rather have?

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The pure football traditionalist may say this is a game about wins and losses, give me the wins. But if you think more than the numbers, perhaps you’d take the belief without evidence approach. The one that says hey maybe we didn’t get the win, but maybe there’s a greater meaning here that the Orange aren’t a laughing stock any longer. Until those results come out, you have two choices. Believe without evidence or give up. The decision is yours.