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Welcome to National Pie Day!
The American Pie Council created this day simply to celebrate the pie.
National Pie Day is a special day that is set aside to bake and cook all of your favorite pies. On this day, you are also encouraged to bake a few new pie recipes. And most importantly, it's a day to eat pies!
A great way to celebrate National Pie Day is to bake some pies and give them away to friends, neighbors, and relatives. You never know, you may be starting a tradition of pie giving between your friends and family.
The American Pie Council sponsors the National Pie Championships. Some of the best pie makers in the world enter their pies. Perhaps you will enter and win the "American Pie Council's Best Pie in America" award.
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Syracuse football vs. Pittsburgh: Top PFF grades from highest-scoring game in FBS history (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse football wrapped up its 2016 season with a 76-61 loss at Pittsburgh, the highest-scoring game in Football Bowl Subdivision history.
Here are some of SU's top performers, per Pro Football Focus.
Offense
-Redshirt junior right tackle Jamar McGloster (78.3) was the team's highest-graded player on offense, allowing only one quarterback pressure after struggling during the last few weeks. This was an encouraging performance against a solid Pitt front four heading into the offseason.
-Redshirt senior wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo (77.7) was close behind, snaring a season-high 13 receptions on 20 targets for 178 yards and five touchdowns. He also forced three missed tackles.
-Junior inside receiver Erv Philips (74.4) nabbed 11-of-13 targets for 107 yards and did not drop a ball. He also played an integral role in the short passing game as a blocker.
-Junior quarterback Zack Mahoney (72.1) turned in a career-best 75 percent accuracy percentage, which factored in his three throwaways and one drop. He also handled pressure better than he did against NC State and Florida State, completing 10-of-19 passes for 115 yards, two touchdowns and one interception
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Syracuse Football: Was the 2016 season a success? (TNIAAM; Gilberg)
Now that we have had a few days to process the utter absurdity of Syracuse’s historic 76-61 loss to Pittsburgh – the highest-scoring game in FBS history – it’s time for us to reflect on SU's season as a whole.
The Orange entered the 2016 season with a number of changes: new head coach, new offensive system, new defensive system, a number of new starters (especially on offense) and, of course, no more Riley Dixon.
The influx of change led to a new-found sense of hope among Syracuse fans, with some even predicting an 8-4 season (including John’s dog – ha, what an idiot. Amirite?). However, the cloud of uncertainty surrounding the Orange also led some to predict as poor as a 3-7 finish. The TNIAAM staff predictions were in the middle of both extremes, with the majority predicting a final record of 5-7.
Of course, Syracuse wasn’t quite able to reach 5-7. Instead the Orange finished 4-8 for the second consecutive season. But does that mean Syracuse’s season was a failure, or can it still be considered a success? Well, that depends on how you look at it.
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A way-too-early look ahead at the 2017 Syracuse schedule (TNIAAM; Keeley)
Anytime you do a way-too-early projection, you’re setting yourself up for failure. The premise always relies on the idea that you know what next year’s teams will look like based on this year’s teams. That logic is flawed is so many ways, but it’s hard not to look ahead anyway.
So while the 2016 Syracuse Orange football season is officially over, let’s take a moment to look ahead at 2017 and wonder what dreams may come. Or at the very least, how likely our chances are at getting to six wins and Birmingham Bowl glory next time around.
Saturday, September 2: TBA
We can assume (hope!) that this will be a FCS opponent, though there’s a chance it could be a directional school or one of the Louisianas. It’s a bit insane that Syracuse doesn’t actually know one of it’s opponents for the 2017 season at this point (I can feel John nodding somewhere). We’ll go ahead and pencil in a win here but we’d sure love to know for sure what we’re getting into.
Premature Odds of Victory: 80 percent
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Heritage’s Amonyae Watson verbally commits to William and Mary football program (dailypress.com; Yanchulis)
Heritage High senior wide receiver Amonyae Watson has verbally committed to the William and Mary football team.
Watson announced his commitment Nov. 21 via his Twitter account, a few days after the Hurricanes lost their second-round playoff game 42-19 at Lake Taylor.
While Watson said he was disappointed to see his senior season come to a close, he was excited to commit to the Tribe. Watson held offers from several Football Bowl Subdivision schools, including Navy, Vanderbilt and Syracuse, but felt most at home at William and Mary, which competes in the Football Championship Subdivision.
“I know I had bigger offers, but it came down to where I felt the most comfortable,” Watson said. “My parents told me: Don’t get too caught up on a name. Pick the school that will best fit you.' ”
Football: Woodbury's Bolden commits to Vanderbilt (woodbury.com; Fugina)
Woodbury senior football player Nico Bolden announced his college decision last week with a verbal commitment to Vanderbilt University.
Bolden signaled his commitment to Vanderbilt on his Twitter account on Nov. 21. The decision was made just days after taking an official visit over the weekend to the Nashville-based Division 1 school. He had the opportunity to see Vanderbilt’s 38-17 home victory over Ole Miss on Nov. 19.
“They have great academics,” Bolden said. “And the location of Vanderbilt is in Nashville. It’s a great location, great restaurants, a great city. I just really liked it. The campus is beautiful.”
Bolden said he had received offers from 13 different Division 1 schools during the recruitment process. Other schools he closely considered were Washington State, Syracuse and New Mexico.
Bolden has played multiple positions on the field during his high school career at Woodbury. Last season he played mostly defensive back and also helped provide offense as a wide receiver.
Bolden said he was recruited to the Vanderbilt program as an outside linebacker. However, the Woodbury senior added that he is comfortable anywhere.
“I can play any position on the field,” Bolden said. “Once I learn the playbook and their scheme I should be good.”
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How Arizona’s 2016 decommits fared this year (azdesertswarm.com; Encinas)
The Arizona Wildcats saw a lot of turnover in their 2016 recruiting class. While quite a few were due to the major overhaul of the defensive staff, there were quite a few guys that the staff suddenly backed off of late in the process.
Arizona only had 17 members of the 2016 recruiting class make it to campus and eight saw playing time this season. The staff had a total of nine decommitments in 2016, with quite a few guys that could have helped immediately or given Arizona some solid depth for the future.
Here’s a look at where those decommits ended up and how they did this season.
Louisville safety London Iakopo
Arizona has been loading up on the secondary and London Iakopo was one of the earlier commits of the class. But once the new defensive staff came in, it seemed clear that Iakopo was going elsewhere, with Louisville recruiting him hard the entire time he had been committed to Arizona.
Whether Arizona actually needed him this season, I’m not so sure. The staff loves Isaiah Hayes and Tristan Cooper going forward, and you have a true sophomore in Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles as well.
Iakopo contributed on special teams this season for Louisville, but suffered a season-ending knee injury early this season. Even Arizona decommits can’t escape injury.
Syracuse wide receiver Sean Riley
Given the running back circumstance this season, it’s clear that Arizona missed Sean Riley earlier in the season.
As one of the first commitments of the 2016 class, committing in March of his junior year, the staff slowly started backing off of Riley around November, asking him to gray shirt instead, which led him to Syracuse as a wide receiver.
He contributed both on special teams and offense as a true freshman for the Orange. He’s hauled in 10 catches for 104 yards, returned two punts for 30 yards, and returned 43 kicks for 919 yards.
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Boston College Football: Three MVPs of the Regular Season (bcinterruption.com; Greenburg)
Boston College football’s regular season is over, with the Eagles posting a 6-6 record: unsatisfying, but enough to get in to the postseason, and enough to deliver some big moments for the season’s three MVPs:
1. Harold Landry
The clear-cut MVP of this team is Harold Landry, who was recently named to the All-ACC second team. Landry, a junior who came into BC as a 4 star recruit, built on his solid campaign last year by having the best season of his career. The big and elusive defensive end tied for the national lead with 15 total sacks on the year, en route to a BC football single season record. His other stats were off the charts as well, with 20.5 tackles-for-loss and 7 forced fumbles on the year.
If Landry somehow gets 5 sacks in our bowl game, he’d tie the NCAA record of 25.5 sacks set by Mathias Kiwanuka in 2004. But all those stats are just the numerical reasons why he’s our best defensive player, and there’s more to why he really meant so much to BC’s top-10 defense this year, which carried the team to a bowl game.
Opposing teams had to gameplan specifically for Landry, as his disruption in the pass game helped BC to the 10th most sacks in the country at 39. He also took attention off of the inside lineman on running plays, contributing significantly to BC’s 6th ranked rush defense. It makes sense that the Eagles’ most valuable player is a defensive end, considering the defense has been so much better than the offense these past two seasons especially.
2. John Johnson
One of the more hyped players on this BC team coming into the season fully delivered, as John Johnson roamed the secondary en route to 65 total tackles, good for 2nd on the team, and a team lead in interceptions with 3. Taking over for the now Denver Bronco Justin Simmons, Johnson was a ballhawk at safety and even played a little bit of cornerback, helping to give those guys up front a little more time to get to the QB.
Johnson also contributed to BC’s top-ranked rush defense and even managed 1 sack and 2 tackles for loss on the year. Now a senior, John Johnson is rated on NFLDraftScout.com as the 5th best free safety prospect in the country. His stats this season and importance to BC’s defense tend to agree with that, and hopefully he’ll get drafted into the league next year. Until then, we can enjoy his MVP-like contribution to this Eagles team.
3. Paul Pasqualoni (Curveball!)
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Other
'High-impact' storm could bring lake effect snow to Upstate NY next week (PS; Coin)
A major storm system could arrive in Upstate New York at the end of next week, bringing a mix rain and snow.
"A surge of cold next week will produce lake effect, and we will see the snow pilling up," said Paul Pastelok, a meteorologist with Accuweather.
"It's a high-impact system from the Plains to the East, with snow, lake effect snow, heavy rain and even thunderstorms in the South," he said. "That could be one of your biggest systems of the month if it all comes together like we think it will."
The National Weather Service's long-term forecast system is also predictingseveral inches of snow across Upstate New York late next week, with up to a foot in the heart of Tug Hill.
The snow might not stick around until Christmas, Pastelok said. Overall, December will likely end up about 1 degree above normal, with a warmup just before Christmas.
"I don't see frigid weather the entire month of December," he said. "I think there's going to be some lake effect, but it won't be continuous throughout the month."
...
The American Pie Council created this day simply to celebrate the pie.
National Pie Day is a special day that is set aside to bake and cook all of your favorite pies. On this day, you are also encouraged to bake a few new pie recipes. And most importantly, it's a day to eat pies!
A great way to celebrate National Pie Day is to bake some pies and give them away to friends, neighbors, and relatives. You never know, you may be starting a tradition of pie giving between your friends and family.
The American Pie Council sponsors the National Pie Championships. Some of the best pie makers in the world enter their pies. Perhaps you will enter and win the "American Pie Council's Best Pie in America" award.
SU News
Syracuse football vs. Pittsburgh: Top PFF grades from highest-scoring game in FBS history (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse football wrapped up its 2016 season with a 76-61 loss at Pittsburgh, the highest-scoring game in Football Bowl Subdivision history.
Here are some of SU's top performers, per Pro Football Focus.
Offense
-Redshirt junior right tackle Jamar McGloster (78.3) was the team's highest-graded player on offense, allowing only one quarterback pressure after struggling during the last few weeks. This was an encouraging performance against a solid Pitt front four heading into the offseason.
-Redshirt senior wide receiver Amba Etta-Tawo (77.7) was close behind, snaring a season-high 13 receptions on 20 targets for 178 yards and five touchdowns. He also forced three missed tackles.
-Junior inside receiver Erv Philips (74.4) nabbed 11-of-13 targets for 107 yards and did not drop a ball. He also played an integral role in the short passing game as a blocker.
-Junior quarterback Zack Mahoney (72.1) turned in a career-best 75 percent accuracy percentage, which factored in his three throwaways and one drop. He also handled pressure better than he did against NC State and Florida State, completing 10-of-19 passes for 115 yards, two touchdowns and one interception
...
Syracuse Football: Was the 2016 season a success? (TNIAAM; Gilberg)
Now that we have had a few days to process the utter absurdity of Syracuse’s historic 76-61 loss to Pittsburgh – the highest-scoring game in FBS history – it’s time for us to reflect on SU's season as a whole.
The Orange entered the 2016 season with a number of changes: new head coach, new offensive system, new defensive system, a number of new starters (especially on offense) and, of course, no more Riley Dixon.
The influx of change led to a new-found sense of hope among Syracuse fans, with some even predicting an 8-4 season (including John’s dog – ha, what an idiot. Amirite?). However, the cloud of uncertainty surrounding the Orange also led some to predict as poor as a 3-7 finish. The TNIAAM staff predictions were in the middle of both extremes, with the majority predicting a final record of 5-7.
Of course, Syracuse wasn’t quite able to reach 5-7. Instead the Orange finished 4-8 for the second consecutive season. But does that mean Syracuse’s season was a failure, or can it still be considered a success? Well, that depends on how you look at it.
...
A way-too-early look ahead at the 2017 Syracuse schedule (TNIAAM; Keeley)
Anytime you do a way-too-early projection, you’re setting yourself up for failure. The premise always relies on the idea that you know what next year’s teams will look like based on this year’s teams. That logic is flawed is so many ways, but it’s hard not to look ahead anyway.
So while the 2016 Syracuse Orange football season is officially over, let’s take a moment to look ahead at 2017 and wonder what dreams may come. Or at the very least, how likely our chances are at getting to six wins and Birmingham Bowl glory next time around.
Saturday, September 2: TBA
We can assume (hope!) that this will be a FCS opponent, though there’s a chance it could be a directional school or one of the Louisianas. It’s a bit insane that Syracuse doesn’t actually know one of it’s opponents for the 2017 season at this point (I can feel John nodding somewhere). We’ll go ahead and pencil in a win here but we’d sure love to know for sure what we’re getting into.
Premature Odds of Victory: 80 percent
...
Heritage’s Amonyae Watson verbally commits to William and Mary football program (dailypress.com; Yanchulis)
Heritage High senior wide receiver Amonyae Watson has verbally committed to the William and Mary football team.
Watson announced his commitment Nov. 21 via his Twitter account, a few days after the Hurricanes lost their second-round playoff game 42-19 at Lake Taylor.
While Watson said he was disappointed to see his senior season come to a close, he was excited to commit to the Tribe. Watson held offers from several Football Bowl Subdivision schools, including Navy, Vanderbilt and Syracuse, but felt most at home at William and Mary, which competes in the Football Championship Subdivision.
“I know I had bigger offers, but it came down to where I felt the most comfortable,” Watson said. “My parents told me: Don’t get too caught up on a name. Pick the school that will best fit you.' ”
Football: Woodbury's Bolden commits to Vanderbilt (woodbury.com; Fugina)
Woodbury senior football player Nico Bolden announced his college decision last week with a verbal commitment to Vanderbilt University.
Bolden signaled his commitment to Vanderbilt on his Twitter account on Nov. 21. The decision was made just days after taking an official visit over the weekend to the Nashville-based Division 1 school. He had the opportunity to see Vanderbilt’s 38-17 home victory over Ole Miss on Nov. 19.
“They have great academics,” Bolden said. “And the location of Vanderbilt is in Nashville. It’s a great location, great restaurants, a great city. I just really liked it. The campus is beautiful.”
Bolden said he had received offers from 13 different Division 1 schools during the recruitment process. Other schools he closely considered were Washington State, Syracuse and New Mexico.
Bolden has played multiple positions on the field during his high school career at Woodbury. Last season he played mostly defensive back and also helped provide offense as a wide receiver.
Bolden said he was recruited to the Vanderbilt program as an outside linebacker. However, the Woodbury senior added that he is comfortable anywhere.
“I can play any position on the field,” Bolden said. “Once I learn the playbook and their scheme I should be good.”
...
How Arizona’s 2016 decommits fared this year (azdesertswarm.com; Encinas)
The Arizona Wildcats saw a lot of turnover in their 2016 recruiting class. While quite a few were due to the major overhaul of the defensive staff, there were quite a few guys that the staff suddenly backed off of late in the process.
Arizona only had 17 members of the 2016 recruiting class make it to campus and eight saw playing time this season. The staff had a total of nine decommitments in 2016, with quite a few guys that could have helped immediately or given Arizona some solid depth for the future.
Here’s a look at where those decommits ended up and how they did this season.
Louisville safety London Iakopo
Arizona has been loading up on the secondary and London Iakopo was one of the earlier commits of the class. But once the new defensive staff came in, it seemed clear that Iakopo was going elsewhere, with Louisville recruiting him hard the entire time he had been committed to Arizona.
Whether Arizona actually needed him this season, I’m not so sure. The staff loves Isaiah Hayes and Tristan Cooper going forward, and you have a true sophomore in Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles as well.
Iakopo contributed on special teams this season for Louisville, but suffered a season-ending knee injury early this season. Even Arizona decommits can’t escape injury.
Syracuse wide receiver Sean Riley
Given the running back circumstance this season, it’s clear that Arizona missed Sean Riley earlier in the season.
As one of the first commitments of the 2016 class, committing in March of his junior year, the staff slowly started backing off of Riley around November, asking him to gray shirt instead, which led him to Syracuse as a wide receiver.
He contributed both on special teams and offense as a true freshman for the Orange. He’s hauled in 10 catches for 104 yards, returned two punts for 30 yards, and returned 43 kicks for 919 yards.
...
Boston College Football: Three MVPs of the Regular Season (bcinterruption.com; Greenburg)
Boston College football’s regular season is over, with the Eagles posting a 6-6 record: unsatisfying, but enough to get in to the postseason, and enough to deliver some big moments for the season’s three MVPs:
1. Harold Landry
The clear-cut MVP of this team is Harold Landry, who was recently named to the All-ACC second team. Landry, a junior who came into BC as a 4 star recruit, built on his solid campaign last year by having the best season of his career. The big and elusive defensive end tied for the national lead with 15 total sacks on the year, en route to a BC football single season record. His other stats were off the charts as well, with 20.5 tackles-for-loss and 7 forced fumbles on the year.
If Landry somehow gets 5 sacks in our bowl game, he’d tie the NCAA record of 25.5 sacks set by Mathias Kiwanuka in 2004. But all those stats are just the numerical reasons why he’s our best defensive player, and there’s more to why he really meant so much to BC’s top-10 defense this year, which carried the team to a bowl game.
Opposing teams had to gameplan specifically for Landry, as his disruption in the pass game helped BC to the 10th most sacks in the country at 39. He also took attention off of the inside lineman on running plays, contributing significantly to BC’s 6th ranked rush defense. It makes sense that the Eagles’ most valuable player is a defensive end, considering the defense has been so much better than the offense these past two seasons especially.
2. John Johnson
One of the more hyped players on this BC team coming into the season fully delivered, as John Johnson roamed the secondary en route to 65 total tackles, good for 2nd on the team, and a team lead in interceptions with 3. Taking over for the now Denver Bronco Justin Simmons, Johnson was a ballhawk at safety and even played a little bit of cornerback, helping to give those guys up front a little more time to get to the QB.
Johnson also contributed to BC’s top-ranked rush defense and even managed 1 sack and 2 tackles for loss on the year. Now a senior, John Johnson is rated on NFLDraftScout.com as the 5th best free safety prospect in the country. His stats this season and importance to BC’s defense tend to agree with that, and hopefully he’ll get drafted into the league next year. Until then, we can enjoy his MVP-like contribution to this Eagles team.
3. Paul Pasqualoni (Curveball!)
...
Other
'High-impact' storm could bring lake effect snow to Upstate NY next week (PS; Coin)
A major storm system could arrive in Upstate New York at the end of next week, bringing a mix rain and snow.
"A surge of cold next week will produce lake effect, and we will see the snow pilling up," said Paul Pastelok, a meteorologist with Accuweather.
"It's a high-impact system from the Plains to the East, with snow, lake effect snow, heavy rain and even thunderstorms in the South," he said. "That could be one of your biggest systems of the month if it all comes together like we think it will."
The National Weather Service's long-term forecast system is also predictingseveral inches of snow across Upstate New York late next week, with up to a foot in the heart of Tug Hill.
The snow might not stick around until Christmas, Pastelok said. Overall, December will likely end up about 1 degree above normal, with a warmup just before Christmas.
"I don't see frigid weather the entire month of December," he said. "I think there's going to be some lake effect, but it won't be continuous throughout the month."
...
