SYRACUSE FIRES GREG ROBINSON

Syracuse announced today that Greg Robinson will be fired at the end of the season.“I have made the decision to move our football program in a new direction and have informed Greg Robinson that his tenure as Syracuse’s head coach will end at the conclusion of this season,” Syracuse Athletic Director Daryl Gross said in a statement. “Coach Robinson worked very hard to try to establish a winning program, one that could eventually compete for the conference championship on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the progress we expected to see has not occurred."Robinson has a 9-36 record, including 3-25 in the Big East. To most Syracuse fans, the news comes at least a year too late; there were plenty of calls last season for Robinson to be fired. In fact, a lot of Syracuse fans wonder why Robinson (who had never been a head coach before) was hired in the first place.This year Syracuse is 2-8 and 1-5 in the Big East. Robinson will be paid his $1.1 million salary for the 2009 season, which is the last on his contract.