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Welcome to Fat Tuesday!
Mardi Gras (/ˈmɑːrdiɡrɑː/), also called Shrove Tuesday,[1] or Fat Tuesday,[2][3][4][5][6] in English, refers to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Christian feasts of the Epiphany (Three King's Day) and culminating on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras is French for "Fat Tuesday", reflecting the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season.
Related popular practices are associated with Shrovetide celebrations before the fasting and religious obligations associated with the penitential season of Lent. In countries such as England, Mardi Gras is also known as Shrove Tuesday, which is derived from the word shrive, meaning "confess".[1]
SU News
Orange, ACC Rising in Initial S&P Ratings for 2016 (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Last week, we dove into some key metrics from SB Nation's Bill Connelly. The Syracuse Orange return the third-most talent in the country, and are actually improving in two- and five-year recruiting averages. Those numbers inform Bill's S&P+ ratings, which made their 2016 debut today.
Syracuse, appropriately, came in at 44th. That's entertaining from the standpoint of the number, obviously. But it's also startling when you think about how high that is. And where Syracuse typically finishes in the S&P. A look at the most recent finishes: 71st (2015), 78th (2014), 59th (2013), 40th (2012), 77th (2011).
Now obviously the 2016 numbers are projections, and those historical figures are based on the actual games played. But if Syracuse lives up to their rating, that would make them the second-best Orange team since the metrics began in 2005 -- just behind the lauded 2012 squad that was a runaway freight train once it finally got a handle on its season.
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Jack Coan
SU Football Recruiting: New York Talent is Not Our cornerstone (TNIAAM; Pregler)
Now that the 2016 recruiting cycle is complete, it's time to look towards 2017. And lo and behold, there's a shiny, top NY State QB recruit. Here's the thing: saying Syracuse & Babers need to go after him is not a smart thing to say.
I'm going to take you back to 2011. I was sitting in my dorm room watching ESPN as the one of the top basketball recruits in the country was about to make his decision between Kentucky, Ohio State and Syracuse. As you may know, DeJuan Coleman picked 'Cuse, the school got a violation for it, and I went along with my day very happy.
Fast forward to now and "very happy" and "DaJuan Coleman" usually don't go together very often.
How does this relate to Syracuse Orange football? Here's Jack Coan, a quarterback prospect out of Sayville HS right here in New York. His list of schools currently includes Nebraska, Michigan, Miami, Maryland and... oh hi Syracuse! That's cool to see you at the table. Dino Babers may not be sleeping over any time soon, but he'll probably bring the hard press as he seems to be very interested in quarterbacks at this time.
With all of that above, we've begun to hear the whispers. They aren't loud yet, but as we creep closer to Fall when the recruiting trail gets hotter, they'll go a little something like this:
Syracuse HAS to land Coan...
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Orange Watch: Wish List for Opponents for the Carrier Dome: Alabama for Football, Kansas for Basketball (the juice; Bierman)
Before Nick Saban decides to retire as one of the best ever in college football coaching circles one of these upcoming seasons, and fresh off his fifth national title, Syracuse AD Mark Coyle should have Floyd Little and Jim Boeheim get on a call with the one-time Frank Maloney outside linebackers coach (1977) and ask Saban for a favor.
With Alabama being the only school among the top seven in all-time victories having never ventured inside the Dome to play the Orange (Alabama did play on campus, and lost to SU 23-0 at Archbold Stadium in 1923, and ‘Bama blasted Syracuse 61-6 in SU’s first-ever bowl appearance in the 1953 Orange Bowl), would Saban coax Alabama AD Bill Battle, who way back when was a first year Tennessee assistant coach under Doug Dickey in 1966 when the Volunteers beat Ben Schwartzwalder’s Orangemen 18-12 in the ’66 Gator Bowl, to agree to a home-and-home series with Syracuse?
All Saban would have to do is tell Battle of his desire to repay the place where he coached between stops at Kent State and West Virginia early in his career for a SU team that went 6-5, including a victory over that season’s Rose Bowl champion Washington Huskies, while pointing out the fact that SEC mate LSU played in the Dome last season with the Orange headed to Baton Rouge next year.
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Ex SU DB Coach Fred Reed Lands Job at Eastern Michigan (SI; Evans)
Former Syracuse defensive backs coach Fred Reed is the new cornerbacks coach for Eastern Michigan coach Chris Creighton, according to a source.
Reed spent the past three seasons in his position with Syracuse and was not retained by new Orange coach Dino Babers. Prior to Syracuse, Reed spent 2010–12 as Ohio’s cornerbacks coach and in charge of punt returns.
He was Buffalo’s defensive coordinator from 2008–09, a defensive assistant working with safeties for the NFL’s Detroit Lions from ’06–07 and cornerbacks coach at Ohio in ’05, where he also oversaw punt returns.
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CNY Weekend Forecast is Very Cold (PS; Coin)
This weekend will be a brief but bitter reminder of February 2015.
The high temperature in Central New York will struggle to stay above zero on Saturday, and wind chills could be well below zero.
"Saturday night will be very familiar to those who enjoyed most of February last year," joked National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Zaff. "We are highly confident that Saturday will be uncomfortable for anyone who wants to be hanging around outside."
The cold could break a record for the lowest high temperature on Feb. 13. The record for Syracuse was set in 1979, when the high was 6 degrees.
The air above Upstate New York could be the coldest ever recorded by weather balloons launched from the weather service's Buffalo office. The balloons have been launched twice a day since 1948, Zaff said, and record temperatures at about a mile above the surface. The coldest temperature recorded at that altitude was 18 degrees below zero; forecasts say that air could be 22 below zero this weekend.
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