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Message: [QUOTE="Orangepace, post: 4797877, member: 322"] Brent Axe is a gloried water cooler in the office type of guy. Nothing he does is special or exquisite. In fact, I’d argue that the dude doesn’t seem to have a single idea for a story of his own.. His M.O. is quite clear in that he s basically an armchair quarterback who likes to beat the crowd to the punch. In fact, I’d be willing to put a sizable bet that half his ideas for stories/podcast come from this very forum. First to report gets clicks and I will admit, he’s good at getting it out quickly. Given how long he’s covered Syracuse sports, I’d love for the guy to do a piece explaining how the 3-3-5 works and to describe the nuances between our former DC and the Godfather. Or maybe to do a breakdown of gameday rituals.. how much DP they script? who calls the plays and is it unilateral or by committee? Who makes the decisions at key points (if anybody)? Are they in the box? Or on the field? Where and how much is being put into NIL? Who deserves a thank you? Given our quarterbacks strength of running the ball, receivers lack of skill in catching a ball, coupled with our beast mode RB, why have the coaches seemingly abandoned the designed “misdirection run plays (read option) for a more pro style (traditional) offense run out of formations that aren’t built for pro-style. Why have we abandoned forcing the defense to choose their poison and the only consistently sound skill sets. -ability to improvise, get the edge and deliver blows instead of absorbing them - to get cute and hope for lightning in a bottle to emerge? These are the seemingly interesting topics I came up with 30K ft in the air responding to a message board. [Axe.. just before now would have been a good time to take notes.] I wholeheartedly agree with [USER=436]money3189[/USER] on this, having played college football myself.. If I wanted to indulge in heavy emotional banter about a topic, rather than an informative/intellectual perspective, he’d be great. It’d be analogous to arguing with any other clickbait salesman about how Taylor Swift made Travis Kelce a household name. But I don’t like wasting the one resource that has no chance of regenerating itself reading someone who mastered the who, what, why, where and how of surface level journalism. He’s perfect for the layman’s version of articulating himself through his chosen medium, journalism. But truth is, the guy is at best a 4.5 on a scale of 10 at drawing in people of average intelligence about the topic. Brent Axe is at best US Weekly for Syracuse sports. [/QUOTE]

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