5 Bold and 5 Timid Predictions for 2024

[UpstateSM]

Willis freshman All-American is a great take.

We will have the best pass catchers in the ACC. JRS will be on an All-ACC team. Gadsden is a day 1 draft pick. I think one or two of Pena/Haynes/Ross explodes.

 

[baggerbob]

Tomcat would be in heaven!!!

Start the season against Ohio win the toss defer to 2nd half.
The Ohio kickoff goes to James, who catches the ball at the 5. He cuts to the middle of the field gets a key block at the 20. Then brushes off a would be tackler at the 25. Then has an open field as he runs for an opening TD for the 2024 season.

 

[storange]

Start the season against Ohio win the toss defer to 2nd half.
The Ohio kickoff goes to James, who catches the ball at the 5. He cuts to the middle of the field gets a key block at the 20. Then brushes off a would be tackler at the 25. Then has an open field as he runs for an opening TD for the 2024 season.

And the 14 Tuba led Orange marching band breaks into “Down the Field “

 

[Marroniac]

I think a bold prediction would be that we do not win the ACC. We‘re pretty much a lock.

 

[Lukeyloo]

I think a bold prediction would be that we do not win the ACC. We‘re pretty much a lock.

 

[IthacaMatt]

I agree that 45 sacks is likely too high a figure. It would have put us in the top ten nationally last year, which I think is a stretch.

I based that figure off of us having 39 sacks in 2021 with less talent against a harder schedule.

The explosive plays are a stretch as well, but Washington had 23 plays over 50 yards last year. If we stack up a bunch against the weaker teams on our schedule, it’s not a crazy figure.

But yes, if we approach both of those figures it will likely mean a historic season.

Just having fun here.

So, you're saying there's a chance ...

 

[IthacaMatt]

Willis freshman All-American is a great take.

We will have the best pass catchers in the ACC. JRS will be on an All-ACC team. Gadsden is a day 1 draft pick. I think one or two of Pena/Haynes/Ross explodes.

I would like to have kept Alford. He would have made this a more proven group. Otherwise, we have only a couple guys who had 20+ catches at WR for us last year.

 

[CbusCuse]

I would like to have kept Alford. He would have made this a more proven group. Otherwise, we have only a couple guys who had 20+ catches at WR for us last year.

Meh. Alford is a solid player. But if we keep him we very likely don’t pick up JRS. And JRS is just a true junior. What did Alford do in his second season? 13 rec for 249 yds and 2 TD’s. JRS had 45 rec for 724 yds and 3 TD’s.
I’ll take JRS over Alford.

 

[IthacaMatt]

Meh. Alford is a solid player. But if we keep him we very likely don’t pick up JRS. And JRS is just a true junior. What did Alford do in his second season? 13 rec for 249 yds and 2 TD’s. JRS had 45 rec for 724 yds and 3 TD’s.
I’ll take JRS over Alford.

Yeah, that's fine, but he had 33 catches for an 18 yard average last year.

Hatcher is the only returning WR who had more than 7 catches last year.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Only bold and undoubtedly inaccurate predictions.
Bold Prediction 1.
By the time the bowl game comes around we don’t have the OC or DC from the beginning of the season.
Bold Prediction 2.
McCord goes Day 2 of draft to the Lions.
Prediction 3.
This will be the last season of ACC football with Florida State and Clemson.
Easiest Bold Prediction 4.
Cuse fans make a scene in Vegas that is talked about for years. Football team puts up 50 burger on national tv.
Bold Prediction 5.
Game 1 and Game 12 will have the same starting OL and DL. (Thus creating bold prediction 1)

 

[Trueblue25]

Think Ross gets 20 receptions and is in line to take over in 2025.

 

[elimunelson]

Only bold and undoubtedly inaccurate predictions.
Bold Prediction 1.
By the time the bowl game comes around we don’t have the OC or DC from the beginning of the season.
Bold Prediction 2.
McCord goes Day 2 of draft to the Lions.
Prediction 3.
This will be the last season of ACC football with Florida State and Clemson.
Easiest Bold Prediction 4.
Cuse fans make a scene in Vegas that is talked about for years. Football team puts up 50 burger on national tv.
Bold Prediction 5.
Game 1 and Game 12 will have the same starting OL and DL. (Thus creating bold prediction 1)

Bold Prediction 6: everyone will opt out of the bowl once again.

 

[CbusCuse]

Think Ross gets 20 receptions and is in line to take over in 2025.

I assume you mean Emanuel Ross and not Justus Ross-Simmons correct? In HS so many of his catches were near the line of scrimmage. Guessing his QB was not great. He looks very fast and pretty electric with the ball in his hands. Wonder what his 100m time is. A new receiver taking over means a starter is leaving which will not be Haynes. JRS could stay another year for his true senior season. I think we need to find a way to get Tremble on the field some so he is ready to take over OG's role next year. Considering Tremble is just 205 lbs I wouldn't be surprised to see some of those snaps out wide just like OG his freshman year.

 

[sutomcat]

Bold:
SU scores on its opening offensive play.
Punt return for a TD in game 1.
10-3
Allen has a game where he runs for 200 yards.

Timid:
13 tubas - a new SUMB record

The 13 tubas would be a record for the new configuration for the dome, but not all time.

Back in the 1990s, I believe we had 14-16 tubas out there most of the time.

The last 20 or 25 years have been a dark time for tubas (and really, for all of us).

Let's hope 2024 is the start of a new era.

I have a vision. I see an era of extreme loudness in the dome, with regular sell out home games, comfy chairs, coolers that are actually cold and well stocked with tasty IPAs (this is not all about me), deep fried turkey on the SyraCruz tailgate menu and a cuse.com app featuring a hologram of the Saltine Warrior killing a nittany lion.

Okay, I will settle for a cuse.com app that makes it easy for me to track out of town scores for college football (and baseball while it is still going on).

Let's GO! War Damn Otto!!!!

 

[UpstateSM]

I would like to have kept Alford. He would have made this a more proven group. Otherwise, we have only a couple guys who had 20+ catches at WR for us last year.

I'm happy Alford is gone so I can avoid the inevitable agony that comes with him letting me down

 

[beetledoc]

BOLD
11-1 conference championship game
Game Day
McCord Heisman talk
Team averages over 30 points per game.
Fran named coach of the year.

TIMID
8-4 solid bowl game
Top attendance in the last 20 years
Willis makes all American frosh team
Dan catches 5 touchdowns as a TE
No double timeouts for the season.

Strange but I predicted an a=exact 11-1 record with their only lost in OT to Miami.
I'll be at the VT-SU game - brings back their near annual BE games that I used to attend here and at Blacksburg - GF was a VT Holie grad......
My only worry concerns the west coast swing......all the teams are beatable.
So proud that SU hired Brown - Dino should have been let go 3 years ago - playbook was out on him in his 2 year here and he did nothing to elevate, adjust or improve upon his system. Simlar path as Jim B in BBall......SU is on the rise and to hell with the Clemson and FSU judases......

 

[beetledoc]

Regardless, it'll always be CUSE FOREVER!

Class of '92...

 

[GoSU96]

Strange but I predicted an a=exact 11-1 record with their only lost in OT to Miami.
I'll be at the VT-SU game - brings back their near annual BE games that I used to attend here and at Blacksburg - GF was a VT Holie grad...
My only worry concerns the west coast swing...all the teams are beatable.
So proud that SU hired Brown - Dino should have been let go 3 years ago - playbook was out on him in his 2 year here and he did nothing to elevate, adjust or improve upon his system. Simlar path as Jim B in BBall...SU is on the rise and to hell with the Clemson and FSU judases...

Again with the Dino myth, he totally changed his approach, strengthened the defense a ton and changed the offense completely to play complimentary football and not run the defense into the ground. What hurt him wasn’t the quality of the top half of the roster, it was the inability to cover multiple key injuries. The “system” (whatever that means) was fine. You don’t go 6-0 and 4-0 to start the last two years if the “book” was out on him. You also aren’t firing a guy that went 10-3 two years before. He was 18-19 his last three years with all the injuries. Dino’s problem was that looked like that was where he was stuck.

I had no problem moving on, Fran is pitching a perfect game so far. He’s done a very good job improving the team and roster from when he took over.

Fran took over a team in its second best position after when P took over. He’s brought in a lot of talent, but there was a foundation with some quality players on both sides of the ball and the specialists. This wasn’t a tear down and rebuild at all. He started with a .500 team (3 bowls in six years) and improved it, not a 3-9/4-8 program.

 

[All4SU]

Strange but I predicted an a=exact 11-1 record with their only lost in OT to Miami.
I'll be at the VT-SU game - brings back their near annual BE games that I used to attend here and at Blacksburg - GF was a VT Holie grad...
My only worry concerns the west coast swing...all the teams are beatable.
So proud that SU hired Brown - Dino should have been let go 3 years ago - playbook was out on him in his 2 year here and he did nothing to elevate, adjust or improve upon his system. Simlar path as Jim B in BBall...SU is on the rise and to hell with the Clemson and FSU judases...

You make a number of good points. The one I disagree with is that Dino didn’t adjust. He completely abandoned his Orange is the new Fast offense, because he didn’t have the horses. He gave up trying to manage the D and bought in 100% into the 3-3-5. He was trying everything and the kitchen sink to make it work. He just never had the OL to be able to keep his QBs healthy. Yes, that failure in recruiting is on him. But to say he didn’t adjust is very inaccurate IMO.