Search results

agree 100%. Houston showed what can happen when Syracuse runs into a team with athletic guards. Buddy/Joe simply aren't athletic enough to beat anyone off the dribble. That can be countered at times with savvy and motion, but when a well coached athletic team decides to put pressure on our...

No halfway objective reasonable thinking person actually believes that Boeheim had to be talked into the idea that Buddy was good enough to play at Syracuse, right? It is a cute story and a useful tool to ward off charges of nepotism for the naive. Buddy is a volume shooter who shoots under...

We recruit like crap because we have a nearly 80 year old coach who can't connect with players running antiquated offensive and defensive systems. What little talent we bring in we don't develop. What started as a talent leak turned into a gush and has been left draining long enough where all...

I have family connections to the Texas program. Tyler is a good kid, thoughtful kid. I've gotten to stand next to him and he is probably the largest human being I've ever been around. He came to Texas a very soft 360 and worked hard to reshape his body to a more manageable 330 (as of last...

I think the inanimate carbon rod is the only real choice for Syracuse football coach of the year.

It is one thing to be bad at football. It is quite another to be a total embarrassment. The total lack of football intelligence and preparation that is infused throughout the program is humiliating. The entire program is a sad joke.

throwing on time without rabbit feet? SAY IT AIN'T SO!!! I am here for it!!! Great throw, catch, and run.

Shafer deciding to punt from the opponent's 38 yard line was my breaking point with him. Those playcalls might prove to be my breaking point with Dino. There is no way to justify that, and it is the product of deficient thinking.

how do you come back from that??? How do you justify those two play calls, and maintain the confidence of the team and fan base in your competence? That just absurd. Just ridiculous. Might as well just kneel until you can kick a field goal. Awful.

Respectfully, I think you are rhetorically leaning on the unknown to reach the conclusion things aren't as bad as they seem. I think that is whistling past the graveyard. To be sure - you are 100% correct that we don't know what we have with the young guys. It is entirely feasible that a...

Devito is Exhibit A for why it is important to stack talent in the QB room and develop that talent. Devito was an awesome recruit. He was on essentially an all star team in high school and crushed the camp circuit. His physical tools were impressive and easy to see. However, the QB position...

The ACC is steaming hot garbage as a conference this year and will likely be only a 4 bid conference. If this was even an average ACC year, let alone a strong year, Syracuse's record would have looked much more dismal and more in line with the less optimistic predictions coming out of the...

So why didn't Texas St offer? Sam Saxton was a true freshman walk on QB at Texas. Lets not give the impression that SFA picked up some former Texas level recruit who got passed over by a total stud. He was a walk on and not the kind of player that even SFA would shut down QB recruiting for...

Steven Clark didn't live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, perhaps the most fertile D1 recruiting area in the entire country. McKinney is on the north side of Dallas, about 30 miles away, and has a population of nearly 200k people. The school was 5A district champs, and Brandon Frazier is a...

There is no hope of being a good team as long as Boeheim is the coach. There has been a steady downward trajectory for the past several years, and the team this year is just an acceleration of the trend. How many people suddenly get better at their job in their late 70's? For whoever follows...

I live in Central Texas and know lots of Baylor folks. This thread is hilarious. Some of y'all need to get out of the Syracuse bubble. Your perception of Dino versus the perception of those outside of Syracuse is miles and miles apart. DIno wouldn't make a top 20 list of Baylor candidates...

this is very well articulated, and I agree 100% wholeheartedly. This is only going one direction, and it is accelerating in that direction. Boeheim is in the process of destroying the program he dedicated his life to building. It pains me to write that, but it is true. It has been observable...

100% truth.

it was a simple off tackle play...

This season has been a complete and total program failure. Offense. Defense. Special Teams. Recruiting. Player Development. Coaching. A complete and total failure on all levels.

Syracuse is the worst non-Rutgers P5 team in the country.

nope, but maybe he should. might upgrade the coaching at two positions.

come on folks. you lose the right to complain about officiating when your team looks totally and utterly incompetent in ways that have zero to do with officiating. we could be getting the harlem globetrotter treatment from the refs and still be losing this game.

i’m starting to wonder if the QB coach nepotism hire was a good decision...

i don’t think the ACC mafia needed to call in anything against Syracuse tonight. I’m not sure if we’d be winning if they let us play 11 on 10.

some of it is. not defending the OL, which has been putrid, but this has been a mashup of poor OL and a QB who panics easily and isn’t decisive if his first read isn’t available. it is a both/and situation, not an either/or situation.

this is so discouraging. This whole program is soft right now. What used to be an innovative offense is no longer innovative. The lack of QB recruiting and QB development is rearing its head. Devito has every physical tool but cannot process the game. It happens even with the higher ranked...

I see you have your "stars don't matter" speech queued up. Cool. It is well worn territory and, frankly, at this point a boring and unproductive debate. Your problem, though, is you've queued it up over the wrong player. Yes, some guys are overlooked or underrated by the services. Dungey...

FWIW, Fort Bend Marshall is a 5A school in Texas, not 6A (which is the highest level). Your point stands though. Hornsby isn't picking Syracuse unless he is passed over by dozens of other schools, and if he is passed over by those schools, why does Syracuse want him?

I live in Texas and follow Texas high school recruiting very closely. Hornsby is a guy who was highly rated early as an athletic QB, but his QB skills haven't been developing as anticipated and as a result his stock is falling like a rock. He was a silent to A&M before they dropped him. Mack...

wait, do you think the money for all these crazy locker room renovations comes from the athletic department budgets? That it is a matter of the AD choosing whether to upgrade football or softball locker rooms? The money for allllllll this kind of thing is fundraised and provided by boosters...

due to a family connection, I'm privy to a lot of behind the scenes stuff at Texas. Grades are definitely an issue, but it is more than grades. If you go through the thread, you'll see me being urging caution at various points. It was only the presence of his high school coach, Kirk Martin...

Matthew Boling doesn't play football and is going to run track at Georgia next year, not Baylor. The kid who came in second in state, Tyler Owens, is a safety going to play at Texas (old friend Dorian Hewitt finished like 5th or 6th in the state).

I just wanted to commend you for your maturity and level headedness as expressed in this post. More than a few posters on this board could learn a thing or two from you. The impulse to blame anyone and everyone is seductive, but you've stayed centered in your perspective. Such thinking is a...

I've written and deleted about a half dozen posts on this topic. My spouse works sports medicine at a major P5 school, and, like every school, there are numerous medical disqualifications. There is so much about how the process works that I'd love to share, but I'm always fearful of sharing...

this is breathtakingly ignorant on so many fronts. Yes, you are wrong in thinking SU rubber stamps disqualifications on zero liability tolerance.

part of Avenatti's shakedown of Nike was that Nike hire him (and Geragos) a minimum of $15-$25 million to conduct a bogus internal investigation of Nike. That demand has no benefit to his client and serves only to enrich himself. That tilts the behavior away from aggressive client advocacy and...

As always, look to Mike Leach for truth: “People make this mistake all over the country, and everybody can think of one, but there will be a guy who is big, strong and athletic, and everyone gets tempted by speed and if someone has a super strong arm.” Then they say ‘Well all he has to do is...

I'm optimistic for the future too and am excited to see what Ruff can do in a bigger role, but it is a massive undervaluing of Slayton's contributions to say you think there is a not a huge drop off from Slayton to Ruff - especially when it is based on an (admittedly very impressive) 40 time...

He's going to Texas. Doesn't hurt to offer, but no chance here.

Regarding the Jones time - the flaw in the logic is comparing it to the NFL combine. I get using the combine as a reference tool - I do it myself at times in posts - but you can't just say Jones ran what would have been the #12 best time, with the implication that he'd be the equivalent of the...

Schools can pay for loss of value insurance out of a Student Assistance fund the NCAA provides for every school. Otherwise, the athlete must purchase the insurance on their own. Loss-of-value FAQs How athletes get insurance and figure out what their bodies are worth

The bolded is where I am, and it sucks. There is no hope. Looking backward, Boeheim is an absolute legend. Looking forward, he's a liability - in recruiting, in development, in program vision and strategy. The program is stale and outdated and will continue to be so as long as Boeheim hangs...

The thing about Texas is that everyone recruits Texas. The top shelf kids will go to Texas/A&M/LSU/OU/Alabama. The national recruiting schools like Stanford/ND/Ohio St pick off guys every year. The next tier goes to TCU/Baylor/Ok St/Arkansas's of the world. My point isn't to quibble about...

While USC will always be formidable because of its card carrying status as a blue blood program, they are really hurting right now. The Bru McCoy transfer was a big deal in football circles here in Texas, and Hewett - being at North Shore with many other high level recruits - would certainly be...

I admire your optimism and I long to live in a world where Syracuse can pull the top recruit out of the state of Texas!

This kid is the number one RB in the entire country, and some places have him as the number one overall recruit in the class, regardless of position. He's a generational talent, and his recruitment is shaping up to be an absolute bloodbath between Texas, A&M, Alabama, and LSU. It's nice that...

Jerrion Ealy is a projected top 10 pick in the baseball draft, which would command a bonus of 3-5 million dollars to forego school all together. That's very unique and quite a bit different than a kid who isn't a major basketball prospect trying to decide whether or not he wants to play one...

it was glorious. truly.