As we sit less than two weeks from the Syracuse Football opener against Central Connecticut State, it’s time to preview the Orange football season. Let’s start with the quarterback. Quarterback hinges on Eric Dungey’s health. If Eric Dungey is healthy, and plays all 12 games, then a bowl game is certainly within reach. We saw…… Continue Reading
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Hopkins Leaves Orange, Heads to Washington
Mike Hopkins has been the coaching in waiting for a decade, that’s a long time to wait. And it must have been just too long to pass up an opportunity at Washington. Being a head coach at a Power-5 conference team is nothing to sneeze at. Especially in a PAC-12 that has a good top…… Continue Reading
Disappointing Season Comes to an End for SU
The Hall of Fame head coach who rarely makes proclamations sunk the Orange back in September telling ESPN’s Andy Katz this year’s Orange squad “the best team we’ve had in a long time.” It’s been downhill since, finishing at 19-15 after a second round exit in the NIT. Anything short of a Final Four likely…… Continue Reading
One Step Closer To Dancing
The win over Georgia Tech was big for a number of reasons. There are NCAA tournament implications. The win gave the Orange a bye in the ACC Tournament, and allowed them to finish 8th in the ACC. But also, as Danny Schayes and I talked about on Burdick Toyota Countdown to Tipoff, the Orange needed…… Continue Reading
Road Struggles Once Again for the Orange
By this point, it should surprise nobody when the Orange struggles away from the Dome. After the loss to Louisville, SU is just 2-10. Those two include an overtime game that needed 43 points and a buzzer beater at the end of regulation by John Gillon, and another game that ended on a buzzer beating…… Continue Reading
Magical Night in the Carrier Dome
How does this keep happening? How much crazy stuff can happen in one year? How can we keep expecting it to happen? And in a year that so much crazy stuff has happened, doesn’t that Duke game top it all? In a year full of double digit comebacks and things that Jim Boeheim says are…… Continue Reading
Another Missed Opportunity for SU
For the 6th straight game, the Orange fell behind double-digits. And for the 6th straight game, the Orange came back, for a little while. The first three times, Syracuse finished off the job and got big come from behind wins. The last three times, the Orange fell short and couldn’t pull out the win. A…… Continue Reading
Syracuse Shows “Fight” in Loss to Louisville
Despite having all the momentum headed into the overtime period, the Orange couldn’t get the win against the Cardinals. SU simply looked to come out flat in the overtime and that led to too big a deficit being built to overcome. But after the game, Jim Boeheim said something we don’t usually hear unprompted out…… Continue Reading
Syracuse Winning Streak Stops at 5
After winning five straight and vaulting themselves not only into the NCAA Tournament discussion but also into the top four of the ACC, the Orange has lost a game. It was a game the Orange probably should have won, playing a lesser team on the road, but if we’ve seen one thing this year it’s…… Continue Reading
5 in a Row for the Orange
Two weeks ago, Syracuse was dead in the water. The season felt over when the Orange couldn’t win on the road, and looked lackluster in South Bend against Notre Dame. The Orange looked helpless. Then a close win against Wake Forest, and things felt like maybe they’d start to turn. The outlook became brighter after…… Continue Reading