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Paul Pasqualoni (born August 16, 1949) was the head coach of the Syracuse University (SU) football team from 1991 to 2004. Pasqualoni was an assistant at SU until 1991, when he was promoted to head coach after then coach Dick MacPherson left Syracuse for the NFL to coach the New England Patriots. The Orange (then known as the Orangemen) enjoyed a number of fairly successful years with Pasqualoni at the helm. The team won the Fiesta Bowl in 1992 and the Gator Bowl in 1995, the team had a 6-3 Bowl Record under Pasqualoni. Pasqualoni's 14-year record with Syracuse was 107-59-1. His only losing season was in 2002 with a 4-8 record.

Pasqualoni struggled over his last three seasons as head coach of the Orange, posting a 16-20 record during that span, which was a sharp downturn from his previous Orange campaigns, in which the Orange were a consistent top 25 team. Even in his peak years, however, his teams had a tendency to lose one or two games annually that that were expected to win, which was one of the main reasons that the Syracuse Orange were never able to compete for a national title during his tenure. Often negatively cited was Pasqualoni's ultra-conservative coaching and play-calling.

Fan unrest grew to the point that in the year 2002, following what many considered to be a hollow 10-3 season, a group of frustrated orange faithful known as "The Orange Alliance" resurrected the website CoachPMustGo.com, a fan site originally created in the mid to late 1990s, but which unexpectedly and surprisingly disappeared from the web in 2001. This new call for action, and its associated fan movement, put additional pressure on the Syracuse administration. Eventually, the slip in wins, combined with the loss of fanbase and a 54-14 loss in the 2004 Champs Sports Bowl, lead recently hired Athletic Director Darryl Gross to fire Pasqualoni on December 29 2004. He was replaced by Greg Robinson, from the University of Texas.

Pasqualoni has since taken a job with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys, where he serves as Tight Ends Coach under Head Coach Bill Parcells.

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