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Brian Kelly Syracuse Preview Press Conference Transcript (und.com)

Obviously, we've had a very busy few hours, few days, and looking forward to getting back out on the practice field. For coaches, that's the best place for us to get to work on our football team, and it will give us an opportunity to, you know, to begin to put our football team in the best position that we can be to start winning football games.

So we had meetings yesterday. We got a chance to get in the weight room, got a chance to talk as a football team as to what we need to do to get back to winning, and this team clearly understands the direction that we need to go. We've made the changes that I felt were appropriate to start to move us in that direction. We will continue to make the appropriate changes necessary to get this football team to the point where it needs to be relative to success on the field. So we look to do that in very short order.

I don't believe that's going to take much time at all. I expect it to happen this Saturday against Syracuse, and I'm excited about getting back on the field and practice and getting this football team to the position where they can win on Saturdays. We've got a very good opponent in Syracuse. Coach Babers runs an extremely fast offense. They throw the ball very well.

Obviously, Amba Etta-Tawo is a receiver that we have to be aware of, but -- was that pretty good? Not too bad? I could have said No. 7. I took a shot at it!

But a talented receiver. They've got a number of talented receivers all of them are very good players. The quarterback is one that throws out a lot of different arm slots, can get the ball down the field. They like to push it vertically. They've got a nice, quick game, good screen game, will run the ball effectively if you're too soft in the run game. Just a really nice game. Coach Babers has put his team in a position where they can put points on the board.

What we've got to do, obviously, it's pretty clear. We've got to keep the points down and that will be our objective on Saturday and to be more efficient on the offensive side of the ball. So with that we will open it up to questions.
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Syracuse Football: Week 5 Promises to be Entertaining (insidetheloudhouse.com; Butler)

The Syracuse football team opened up as a 13-point underdog against Notre Dame. With both teams excelling offensively, this should be entertaining.

Hold on to your seats. This has all the makings of being a wild one in front of a national television audience. Week 5 of the Syracuse football season features the Orange and Notre Dame at MetLife stadium, a battle of two high-powered offenses.

“We’re looking at a 48-45 possible final score,” Ang Di Carlo, who’s a sports director at WNDU-TV, told ESPN Radio Syracuse. “I don’t know what the over is on the Vegas line, but I bet you that thing is in the 80s.”

Coming into this affair, Syracuse football ranks 16th in the country in total yards (1,986) and have scored 112 points (68th in CFB). Meanwhile, Notre Dame is 31st in total yards (1,823) and 43rd in points per game (37.3). So I’ll say what you’re thinking: this is going to be so much fun.

But the reason you’d feel that strongly — and the general consensus seems to be “this will be a shootout” — is because both defenses leave much to be desired. In the last three games, the Orange have surrendered 43.6 points per contest…yikes.

Injuries haven’t made life any easier coming into the season. Yes, it was the defense that helped the Orange beat UConn this past weekend. But the narrative of the 2016 Syracuse football season was that of “winning in spite of the defense’s ineptitude.”
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Syracuse Football: The ACC is headed to Orlando according to multiple reports (insidetheloudhouse.com; Edsen Jr)

The ACC Football Championship has been in North Carolina since 2009. But earlier this month it had been decided that it’ll be relocated due to the controversial “bathroom bill” instated in North Carolina.
While it’s unlikely that this will affect the Syracuse football team with this news. It’s still very news-worthy considering the rise of the ACC as one of the best conferences in college football.

The football won’t be the only division shifting their championship location. The ACC championships for women’s soccer, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s golf, men’s golf and baseball will also be moved to neutral sites.

The law in question, limits anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people, and requires people to use public restrooms that correspond with the sex listed on their birth certificates.

The conference announced earlier this month that it was moving the neutral-site contest out of Charlotte due to North Carolina’s controversial “bathroom bill”. It’s new home, according to a report from Brett McMurphy is going to be Orlando outside of something unforeseen.

Orlando still “prohibitive favorite” to land ACC football title game as ACC officials visit Orlando today & Wednesday sources told @ESPN

— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) September 27, 2016

Expect the relocation to Orlando to be finalized soon. The ACC Football Championship has been in North Carolina since 2009.
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Syracuse offensive play-calling breakdown v. UConn (TNIAAM; Cassillo)

The Syracuse Orange won their second game of the season on Saturday, a 31-24 triumph over the UConn Huskies that was far more stressful than it ever should have been. Once again, upon rewatch, you could see where things derailed at times for the Orange offense. But you could also see plenty of moments that went well. This thing’s working, even if it’s not "there" yet, trust me.

First Quarter
DRIVE 1
Time Down Ball Run/Pass Player Direction Result
15:00 1st and 10 SYR 25 Pass Dungey Short R Incomplete (Philips)
14:57 2nd and 10 SYR 25 Pass Etta-Tawo Mid Range M 15 Yard Gain
14:40 1st and 10 SYR 40 Run Strickland Dive R 3 Yard Gain
14:20 2nd and 7 SYR 43 Play Action; Pass Etta-Tawo Deep L 57 Yard Gain; TD
DRIVE 2
Time Down Ball Run/Pass Player Direction Result
12:10 1st and 10 SYR 41 Run Strickland Dive R 9 Yard Gain
11:55 2nd and 1 CONN 50 Play Action; Pass Etta-Tawo Screen L 2 Yard Loss
11:31 3rd and 3 SYR 48 Pass Etta-Tawo Mid Range M 18 Yard Gain
11:10 1st and 10 CONN 34 Run Strickland Dive R 4 Yard Gain
10:54 2nd and 6 CONN 30 Play Action; Pass Etta-Tawo Deep L 30 Yard Gain; TD



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Syracuse vs. Notre Dame football preview: Q&A with One Foot Down (TNIAAM; Cassillo)

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Obviously things haven't gone as expected this season for Notre Dame. What are fans pointing to as the main reason behind the struggles and a 1-3 start?

The most common scapegoat has definitely been the defense, and thus Brian VanGorder. The unit has been legitimately terrible through four games, allowing both Texas and Michigan State to put up monster leads on ND and also failing to get stops when it counts the most in late moments.

This problem definitely goes deeper than VanGorder, though, and I think fans are starting to realize that. After all, the offense has not exactly been unstoppable, and everything wrong with the defense can be linked back to Kelly not getting rid of VanGorder after the defense's struggles last season. The players do indeed deserve a little blame, as they haven't been executing on the field, but it seems like, at this point, the team is either unprepared to execute or maybe Kelly has lost the team, leading to a lesser effort/focus.

Either way, I think all roads of blame lead back to Brian Kelly, and rightfully so considering some of his decisions (play calling, personnel, and obviously coaching staff decisions) and his most recent tossing of essentially every player under the bus, publicly in his Duke post-game press conference. That's not something an effective leader does, and the team shouldn't have these kinds of problems in Year seven of a coach's tenure. If he doesn't get things figured out fast, there might not be a Year eight for Kelly.

Did the school's firing of Brian VanGorder as defensive coordinator surprise you on Sunday?

Yes and no. The writing has been on the wall, essentially since the Stanford game last season, that VanGorder would get fired sometime this year. And through the first four games, giving up an average of 33.5 points per game and 454 yards per game, it was becoming clearer and clearer that VanGorder probably wouldn't make it to the end of the season.
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Former Syracuse football OL Sean Hickey signs with Minnesota Vikings practice squad (PS; Bailey)

Former Syracuse offensive lineman Sean Hickey has signed with the Minnesota Vikings practice squad, the team announced on Tuesday.

Hickey spent training camp and part of the preseason with the Vikings before being released on Aug. 29. Before his time in Minnesota, he completed part of this offseason with the New York Jets.

He was signed to the New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots practice squads for parts of last season.

Hickey started 38 straight games for the Orange from 2012-14, anchoring SU's offensive line at the left tackle position during the last two years. He was named third-team All-ACC by the coaches and Phil Steele following his redshirt senior season.


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Cuomo to make jobs announcement at Welch Allyn in Skaneateles (PS; Moriarty)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is expected to announce the creation of new jobs at Welch Allyn during a visit to the medical equipment maker in Skaneateles on Wednesday.

Cuomo is scheduled to appear with company officials at Welch Allyn's headquarters off State Street Road at 10 a.m.

Chicago-based Hill-Rom Holdings Inc. bought 101-year-old company for $2.05 billion in September from the Allyn family and has continued to manufacture medical diagnostic equipment under the Welch Allyn name in Skaneateles.

The acquisition raised fears in the community that Hill-Rom might pull jobs out of Skaneateles, the southern Onondaga County town where Welch Allyn employs approximately 1,300 people.

Those fears were raised even further when Hill-Rom announced, just two days after the acquisition, that it would lay off 50 people in Skaneateles. However, no further layoffs have been announced since then.
 

There appears to be some confusion regarding the status of Ja’Vonn “Pigg” Harrison, but one thing is seemingly certain — the wide receiver won’t see the field for the Seminoles for the foreseeable future, if ever again.

Following practice Tuesday, FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher announced that Harrison has been suspended from his football team. The only reason given was an unspecified violation of team rules.

“As of right now, he’s suspended,” the head coach said in quotes distributed by the team. “We’ll see what happens. Team violation.”

However, TomahawkNation.com is reporting that third-year junior has left the team completely and intends to transfer.

A four-star member of FSU 2014 recruiting class, Harrison was rated as the No. 30 player at any position in the state of Florida and the 197 player overall on 247Sports.com‘s composite board. The Lakeland native, however, never quite lived up to that recruiting pedigree.

Including this season, Harrison has played in 20 games in his career, starting one of those contest (2016 vs. Ole Miss). He caught eight passes for 139 yards and a touchdown. Six of those receptions, 129 of the yards and the lone touchdown came in 2015. This season, he had one catch for nine yards.
 
I'd imagine it's because it's not that serious... Literally 25-35% of our roster gets treatment directly before or after practice on a weekly basis. Treatment could be for a sore hammy, mild sprains or rolled ankles. It could also be for serious things, but, typically those guys have treatment schedules that don't center around practice times.
 

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