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Welcome to Kindergarten Day!
Each year on April 21st, National Kindergarten Day honors the birthday of the man who started the first Kindergarten. Friedrich Wilhelm August Frobel (April 21, 1782 – June 21, 1852) is credited with starting the very first Kindergarten in Germany in 1837. Frobel was a German teacher and a student of Johann Pestalozzi. Frobel laid a foundation for modern education, recognizing that children learn through play and experience.
The first kindergarten (which means garden for the children) was developed in Blankenburg, Germany, in 1837. The kindergarten fostered Frobel’s social experience for children, which would allow them to transition from home to school more smoothly.
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Dome renovation takes a big step, won’t be impacted by austerity measures (PS; Carlson)
The final piece of the crown-truss portion of the Carrier Dome’s new roof will be bolted into place Monday night, marking another milestone on the path to completing the building’s renovation.
That renovation is not expected to be impacted by the austerity measures announced by the school earlier on Monday to help navigate the coronavirus pandemic. As part of those measures, the school announced a hold on all new capital projects. It made an exception for projects currently underway and critical projects.
Syracuse Vice President and Chief Facilities Officer Pete Sala said that means that all facets of the Carrier Dome renovation would continue as announced, not just the ones that are currently scheduled to be completed by the end of this summer.
“Everything that we had planned to do this cycle is still in the works,” Sala said. “The sound, the lights, the video board. Our goal was to get in there and take care of some of those fan features first. The air conditioning will be ongoing.”
The school has announced a three-year timeline with a roof replacement and new sound and lighting systems among the improvements scheduled for this year, along with improvements to restrooms, concessions and the addition of air conditioning by 2022.
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Syracuse picked up its first offensive, and third overall, commitment in the 2021 class on Monday when three star Beaver Falls (PA) High running back Josh Hough gave his verbal pledge to the Orange. He picked Syracuse over offers from Ball State, Bowling Green, Buffalo, Central Michigan, Kent State, Kentucky, Pittsburgh, Toledo and several others. Hough is rated a three star prospect by 247Sports and ranked the 117th best running back in the 2021 cycle. He is also ranked as the 36th best player in Pennsylvania regardless of position.
Hough was named 2019 3A Tri-County West Offensive MVP and 3A Tri-County West First Team at running back and outside linebacker. During his junior season, Hough ran for 1,273 yards on 135 carries (9.4 yards per carry) with 18 touchdowns. He joins defensive tackle Terry Lockett and defensive back Malcolm Folk in Syracuse's 2021 class to date.
The 6-foot-2, 235 pound running back visited Syracuse back in February for Junior Day. He was offered by the Orange during that visit, and has been one of Syracuse's top targets ever since. Syracuse stayed in constant communication, even after the coronavirus pandemic eliminated the possibility of more visits, reach out through text, social media or phone calls multiple times every week.
Pennsylvania RB Josh Hough commits to Syracuse (PS; Bailey)
Class of 2021 running back Josh Hough verbally committed to Syracuse football on Monday night. A junior at Beaver Falls (Pa.) High School, he announced his decision on Twitter.
The 6-foot-2, 235-pound Hough is rated two stars and the No. 109 running back this cycle by 247Sports.com’s composite rankings, an average of the major recruiting services. 247Sports.com lists him as three stars. Hough visited Central New York for junior day in late January, receiving an offer shortly afterward. He was also extended scholarship opportunities by Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Toledo, Bowling Green and Central Michigan, among others.
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Orange Watch: 2020 NFL Draft provides small taste of Syracuse football - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: The first of three days of NFL Draft coverage Thursday night (ABC/ESPN/NFL Network 8:00 p.m. ET) can’t come soon enough for football fans. Even the subdued proceedings with everyone at remote locations, will provide much needed live sports programming since the global sports world pretty much went on hiatus the third week of March due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
For Orange Nation, it may not be Thursday’s first round, but ex-SU standouts D-linemen Alton Robinson and Kendall Coleman, wide receiver Trishton Jackson and perhaps punter/kickoff specialist Sterling Hofrichter should hear their names called by late Saturday afternoon when the 7th and final round is completed.
Since the NFL and AFL merged in 1970 creating what is now the 32-team NFL, what is the highest number of Syracuse players selected in the same draft?
The answer: Six ‘Cuse players and it happened in three successive drafts, 1988, ’89, and 1990. Not coincidentally the richness of talent came on the heels of the 1987 undefeated season, and great final run that boosted Dick MacPherson into an NFL head coaching job with the New England Patriots from 1991-92. (Note: The draft was 12 rounds in the 1980s.)
Only four seasons since the 1970 pro merger has Syracuse had zero players selected in the draft; 1975 in the post-Ben Schwartzwalder late in his career period, 2008 post-Greg Robinson, and twice (2015 and 2017) in the post-Scott Shafer tenure. Not coincidentally when there was a downturn in program talent.
If Robinson, Coleman and Jackson are all selected this week, it will be the first time since 2013 that a trio of Orange players were drafted (Justin Pugh, Ryan Nassib, and Shamarko Thomas). SU has not had four players taken the same draft since 2006 (Anthony Smith, Quinn Ojinnaka, James Wyche, and Ryan LaCasse).
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Powerful running back Josh Hough commits to Syracuse (247sports.com; McAllister)
Robinson to Cowboys, Jackson to Patriots in NFL.com mock draft (PS; Mink)
A consensus appears to have formed: Alton Robinson will be the first Syracuse football player selected in this week’s NFL draft.
Where draft experts start to divert is when Robinson will fall off the board.
NFL.com draft analyst Chad Reuter recently released his seven-round mock draft and slotted the former SU defensive end as the Dallas Cowboys’ fourth-round pick (No. 123 overall). That would make him SU’s highest draft pick since Jay Bromley in 2014 (third round; New York Giants).
Most draft experts view Robinson as a mid-round pick. Sports Illustrated’s Kevin Hanson pegged him as a third-round selection, and Dane Brugler, of The Athletic, graded him as a fifth-round choice.
Robinson won’t be the only SU player to monitor on draft weekend.
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Football home opener target date ‘hasn’t moved’ for Carrier Dome roof construction (DO; Emerman)
As of now, the goal of completing the Carrier Dome roof replacement project for Syracuse football’s home opener on Sept. 19 hasn’t changed despite the spread of the novel coronavirus.
“That’s our target date. That date hasn’t moved for us,” Syracuse University’s vice president and chief facilities officer, Pete Sala, said on Monday.
Sala added that “we’re very pleased with where we are right now,” even with challenges from COVID-19 and other factors involved with the $118 million stadium renovation project. The hurdle the construction crew is about to clear is installing the crown-truss that will help support the new roof.
“The piece of steel we just put up, the keystone piece, was 129,000 pounds — that’s over 60 tons,” Sala said. “We’re bolting it as we speak. By the end of tonight, the crown-truss will be complete.”
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Michael Jordan's longtime agent David Falk on 'The Last Dance' and his love for Syracuse (Episode 69-Syracuse Sports Podcast) (acast.com; radio; Axe)
Michael Jordan's longtime agent David Falk on 'The Last Dance' and his love for Syracuse (Episode 69-Syracuse Sports Podcast)
Will there be a college football season this fall? | ACC Today with Bill Roth (roanoke.com; podcast; Roth)
Will there be a college football season this fall? | ACC Today with Bill Roth
https://accsports.com/acc-news/2020...ads-sossible-round-1-selections-from-the-acc/ (accsports.com; Geisinger)
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The 2020 NFL Draft, in its altered remote form, is set to start this week: April 23-25. Round 1 of the draft will start in primetime (8 p.m.) on Thursday, with coverage on multiple networks — ESPN, ABC and the NFL Network.
- April 23, Thursday: Round 1
- April 24, Friday: Rounds 2-3
- April 25, Saturday: Rounds 4-7
(Note: Notre Dame players aren’t included in this brief list, although WR Chase Claypool, after a monster combine performance, and edge rusher Julian Okwara are potential first round pieces, too.)
Isaiah Simmons – Clemson, LB/S/Everything
- Height: 6-4
- Weight: 238
- 40-yard dash: 4.39 seconds
- Vertical: 39 inches
- SPARQ: No. 1 among LBs, 99th adjusted percentile
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Could realignment be in the ACC’s future? (clemsoninsider.com; MacRae & Vandervort)
Some have wondered what the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic might have on college athletics once the sports world can go back to normal or what the new normal might be, especially at the Power 5 and Group of 5 level.
Though a lot of people seem focused on football and what its future holds, COVID-19 is already starting to impact the finances in other sports at major universities across the country. Of course, the pandemic shut down the entire spring athletic season, canceling the men’s and women’s NCAA Basketball Tournaments, conference tournaments, as well as the College World Series for baseball and softball.
Schools like Oregon, Oregon State and Wake Forest have already taken measures to help them address financial issues caused by the pandemic. Last week, Wake head football coach Dave Clawson joined athletic director John Currie, school president Nathan Hatch and the president’s cabinet members in taking a 10-percent pay cut.
Oregon State’s coaches and athletic director did the same, last week. On April 3, Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens and President Michael Schill took voluntary pay cuts.
Things are not as dire at Clemson, at this point. The impact on Clemson Athletics’ 2019-’20 fiscal year is just a little more than a $1 million. In fact, the athletic department reported to the Board of Trustees on April 1 an estimated net of $1,038,000 will be lost for the last three months of the spring semester.
“We are blessed with some reserves and we will have a slight loss and most of that loss will be due to the fact the NCAA Basketball Tournament left a hole in the ACC distribution,” Clemson’s director of athletics, Dan Radakovich, said last week on the Mickey Plyler Show on 105.5 FM in Clemson. “But there are even some ways that the ACC is looking to help with that.
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Cost of Cancelling College Football (RX; HM)
Cost of Cancelling College Football
According to the USA Today article "Major public college football programs could lose billions in revenue if no season is played" - at least $4.1 billion in fiscal-year revenue, based on the athletics departments at the 50+ public schools in the P5 conferences. That's an average of more than $78 million per school, more than 60% of the combined total annual operating revenues for those schools. That doesn't include any impact from reduced student fees - but how can you charge students a fee to see athletic events that are all cancelled?
Of course, there's also the impact to the local economies of the many college towns - especially where P5 schools are situated in small towns. In short, I don't doubt their "at least $4.1 billion" estimate at all.
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NIL Considerations - 4/21/20 (RX; HM)
NIL Considerations - 4/21/20
Despite everything else going on, the NCAA is still moving forward with its commitment to allow student-athletes to profit from their names, images and likenesses (aka NIL). As it has become increasingly clear that the NCAA cannot legally prevent student-athletes from getting paid in some form or another, they're working hard to manage the side effects of the sea change that's coming...
The NCAA's goal is to stay within ‘collegiate model’, avoiding a “pay-for-play” model. To accomplish that, they need to make sure that any money the athletes receive is not directly related to their play. They don’t want to create an employer-employee relationship, and at the same time, they want to protect the integrity of the recruiting process (or at least, what's left of integrity).
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COVID vs UNC System (RX; HM)
COVID vs UNC System
Dominoes are beginning to fall in college sports.
From "The Syllabus: The word from the BOG on budgets, enrollment and chancellor searches"
The UNC Board of Governors met by telephone last Friday morning... Here are some highlights:
Budget: The UNC System's 2020-21 budget will drop to 2018-19 levels... Interim President Bill Roper said the UNC System has cut $185 million in operating funds... and plans to postpone about $600 million worth of new construction projects... When the legislature reconvenes April 28, the UNC System will ask for $45 million to help cover the costs of:
- moving about 50,000 spring semester classes online
- extra cleaning of campus buildings
- loss of revenue from canceled conferences, performances and other on-campus events
Refunds: The UNC System is not asking for legislature for help paying out nearly $119 million in housing and dining refunds - each school will handle those internally. Roper said 80% of unused housing and dining fees will be refunded by the end of this week...
2020-21 tuition and fees: this has been delayed until the BOG's next meeting May 19-20. Most UNC System schools want to raise tuition or fees or both for the upcoming academic year, but BOG Chairman Randy Ramsey said Friday that "he can't support any increases at this point" because students and families are feeling financial pressure, too.
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10-year-old CNY pickle prodigy hosts virtual watch party for “Little Big Shots” appearance (PS; Lees)
Parker Cook greeted viewers of his virtual watch party while munching on one of his own pickles.
The 10-year-old CEO of What’s the Big Dill hosted the event to celebrate his appearance on Sunday night’s episode of “Little Big Shots”, hosted by Melissa McCarthy.
During the Facebook and Instagram Live party, Parker answered questions from friends and fans as they came in. One viewer asked if he was nervous to be on the show. He wasn’t nervous, just excited. “I’m excited to see myself on tv,” he said.
So were all his friends and supporters, many of which had purchased pickles at a drive-up event Saturday at Ink Corner Cafe in Cicero. “I’ve got my tv turned on and am waiting! I’m excited for you!,” said Deborah Midgley.
Sunday night’s episode also featured Parson, a little girl obsessed with UPS drivers and deliveries; Tutu, a six-year-old from Sichaun, China, who cuts hair like a professional (and gave McCarthy’s husband a haircut during the show); Sara, who was born without hands but has won a national penmanship competition; and Victory, a seven-year-old opera virtuoso who sings in five different languages
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