"Granted there may have been some conflicts, but now does Gary Gait not show up at the athletic departments party celebrating your championship? He’s an employee for God’s sake."
He was probably carrying out the duties of his employment. Like being in Maryland with that team SU pays him to coach.
"As for the next coach, you aren’t getting Marr. And Corrano from Villanova? Really, we are Syracuse Lacrosse, we aren’t going outside the family to hire the Villanova coach. I could possibly be talked in shay, but really it’s Galloway or Gary, period end of story. I don’t think the alums would be happy with anyone else."
With the possible exception of Gary Gait -- who's been coaching the women's game for more than a decade now, and therefore might not be the best guy to take over a men's program -- there's really nobody in the family who's ready to lead an ACC men's lacrosse program. Donahue, Rogers and Roy III are career assistants.
Galloway is an interesting name -- for the future -- but he's six games into his second year leading what can charitably be called a mid-major program ... where he's 2-4 and just lost a neutral site game to Vermont. His team doesn't look like it recruits well in hotbeds like Long Island or upstate; half the team is from south of the Mason-Dixon Line. He might be able to win in the ACC at some point, but it sure isn't yet.
Also, the alumni aren't hiring the coach. Wildhack -- an outside-the-box AD hire if there ever was one, and thank goodness for that -- would be.
Maybe the "staying in the family" thinking is part of the problem -- you see that in companies and organizations all the time when they don't have any healthy churn. SU has been slow to evolve -- many top programs were recruiting FOGOs, but we didn't take it seriously until Duke's faceoff specialist destroyed us at the X.) Meanwhile, many of the most successful programs these days are those that have gone outside "the family." Maryland -- a school with a lacrosse family if there ever was one -- went outside to hire Tillman. Duke got Danowski from Hofstra. Virginia's program had gotten moldy because Starsia was allowed to hang around too long -- something I fear we might be facing with Desko -- so they hired Tiffany and are headed toward being competitive again with powerhouse recruits like Aitken (Pa.), Conners (Rochester), Laviano (Long Island), Kraus and Rode.
The Andy Shay suggestion is one I could get behind: Success in a tough environment? Check. Ability to recruit where he needs to recruit? Check. Ties to CNY? Check.