Holy Cross coming in 2019

[OrangeXtreme]

Orange Football Adds Holy Cross to 2019 Schedule (Cuse.com)

The Syracuse football program has added a home date with Holy Cross in the 2019 season. The Orange will welcome the Crusaders to the Carrier Dome on August 31, 2019. It will be the 29th meeting between the two programs and first since 1973. Syracuse leads the all-time series 23-5.

It's the second non-conference opponent for the Orange in 2019. Syracuse is set to travel to Maryland that year, as well. The Atlantic Coast Conference portion of the schedule includes Boston College, Clemson, Pitt and Wake Forest at home, and road games at Duke, Florida State, Louisville and NC State.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

This was the "player to be named later" in the Ben Williams trade.

 

[Frozen]

The comments on the PS site re: Holy Cross are so uninformed it makes my head hurt.

 

[CuseLegacy]

I told you all about this last year.

http://syracusefan.com/threads/holy-cross-sorry-if-i-missed-this.75330/

 

[OrangeTarheel]

A better choice than Maine, this at least gets us some exposure in a larger market.

 

[cuseguy]

A better choice than Maine, this at least gets us some exposure in a larger market.

BC hardly gets exposure in the Boston market. Holy Cross doesn't get any.

 

[ImperialOrange]

A better choice than Maine, this at least gets us some exposure in a larger market.

I don't even care about exposure, I don't ever want to see Maine and their bush league cheap shots ever again.

 

[Scooch]

A better choice than Maine, this at least gets us some exposure in a larger market.

Worcester?

 

[Toga]

Holy Crusaders Batman!

 

[rrlbees]

Yuck

 

[orange79]

Yuck

Not looking forward to the rematch of the 1973 barnburner? (Hint: we won! 5-3)

 

[Ringostar57]

Not looking forward to the rematch of the 1973 barnburner? (Hint: we won! 5-3)

You sure that was football? not lacrosse or baseball...chuckle

 

[Scooch]

Not looking forward to the rematch of the 1973 barnburner? (Hint: we won! 5-3)

This will be the revenge game for Gordie Lockbaum costing Don McPherson the Heisman in 1987.

Just a mere 42 years later.

REVENGE!

 

[OburgOrange]

Just a mere 42 years later.

!

Either I'm a lot older than I thought, or your math is off a little

 

[Scooch]

Either I'm a lot older than I thought, or your math is off a little

2019 - 1987 = 32.

32.

Oops.

Still, screw Gordie Lockbaum.

 

[OrangeAl]

Not looking forward to the rematch of the 1973 barnburner? (Hint: we won! 5-3)

That was one awful, pathetic game from a time when Syracuse was really spiraling down (Ben's last year). As bad as last season was, it was nowhere near as bad as 1973.
The Good News is that we got better!

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[kirbivore]

Yuck

what D1-AA would you rather play? (i refuse to use the new terminology)

 

[Toga]

This will be the revenge game for Gordie Lockbaum costing Don McPherson the Heisman in 1987.

Just a mere 42 years later.

REVENGE!

Some sportwriter's wet dream imagining himself as Lockbaum.

 

[rrlbees]

what D1-AA would you rather play? (i refuse to use the new terminology)

Definitely have to play an FCS team, but HC just seems like a boring choice. I don't know. Albany, Delaware, New Hampshire, an Ivy.

 

[cuseguy]

Definitely have to play an FCS team, but HC just seems like a boring choice. I don't know. Albany, Delaware, New Hampshire, an Ivy.

Definitely not New Hampshire. They're really good.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Ivy's don't schedule FBS teams anymore.

 

[CuseLegacy]

It's not like the other ACC schools schedule exciting FCS teams... Presbyterian, Elon, Bethune-Cookman, Savannah St. They schedule teams to get a win.

 

[billsin01]

A better choice than Maine, this at least gets us some exposure in a larger market.

You are kidding, right?

 

[billsin01]

Definitely have to play an FCS team, but HC just seems like a boring choice. I don't know. Albany, Delaware, New Hampshire, an Ivy.

Thank God it's being played at the Dome and people don't lose out on a home date! But, honestly, debating what FCS team we schedule is absolutely pointless.