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Welcome to ACC Football Schedule Unveiling II!
The ACC is scheduled to release the new 2020 COVID adjusted football schedule this morning at 9 am. Opponents are known. The dates for the games will be announced today, as well as the OOC opponent for each school.
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SU Top 100: #43 C.J. Fair – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Bonaparte)
Our list of the Top 100 SU athletes continues with a high-flying, slam-dunking, Big East-slaying Orange forward.
You can find the Fizz’s SU Top 100 list here. Make sure you keep checking in to see who made the list and where they are ranked!
Much like SU basketball great, Carmelo Anthony, C.J. Fair was born in Baltimore, Maryland. When the forward got to Syracuse in 2010, the program was thriving. Fair fit in nicely as a reliable scorer from the paint and from distance.
In his sophomore season, Fair was a part of an incredibly talented squad that made a fairly deep tournament run. There were six players on that year’s Orange that would go on to play in the NBA. Though he wasn’t given the same amount of minutes as some of those guys, he showed his worth whenever he was on the floor. That year he averaged 8.5 PPG with 5.4 RPG in 26 MPG.
His junior season brought wins as well as highlights. SU finished the regular season with 23 wins and brought that momentum into the Big East tournament. That season it was all the more special, as it was Syracuse’s last season playing in the conference they’d called home for 34 years. They faced none other than Georgetown in the Semi-Final. That season Georgetown had a pretty stacked squad, but C.J. simply didn’t care. He channeled some major bounce to put Player of the Year candidate, Otto Porter on a poster. SU went on to win in overtime. That season the Orange made the trek to the final four as well, the first time doing so since winning the national championship in 2003.
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SU Top 100: #41 Roosevelt Bouie – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Amendolara)
Back in the mid-’70s the nation was consumed by Watergate fallout, polyester suits, and a new style of basketball. The ABA has made its mark embracing a run and gun vibe, encouraging wide open offense and a flair for nicknamed personalities. It was at this time Syracuse basketball found itself in the thick of a revolution as well. A young assistant named Jim Boeheim took over the program, and with it came a fresh attitude and eye on the way SU played.
While Boeheim would never be a disciple of the Dr. J, Connie Hawkins, and George Gervin school of high-flying dunks and defense option, he did need tent poles for his program. Ones that could put butts in the seats and give the Orange an identity. It was there he found the Louie and Bouie Show.
Louie Orr (named #98 on our list of greatest SU athletes ever) was Boehiem’s first big fish. Roosevelt Bouie was his next. Together they formed perhaps the most famous duo in program history. In four seasons the Louis n’ Bouie Show (sometimes referred to as Bouie n’ Louie depending on your rhyming stylings) would go an incredible 100-18 in four years on campus. They made SU basketball a hot commodity, and planted the roots that still grow 45 years later. Syracuse basketball is THE show in Central New York.
“On the day of assistant Rick Pitino’s wedding,” writes Yahoo Sports (in a retelling of one of SU’s greatest legends) Boeheim drove from Syracuse to New York City to try to convince the future star coach to accept an assistant coaching position for the Orangemen. Boeheim kept Pitino out of his hotel room for four hours until Pitino agreed. But there was one caveat: Pitino had to delay his honeymoon, which was scheduled for the next day, so he could hit the recruiting trail immediately. The next day, Boeheim went to Kendall to secure Bouie’s commitment, while Pitino went to Cincinnati to try to secure top guard recruit Louis Orr.”
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Tax breaks OK’d for Byrne Dairy expansion (PS; $; Moriarty)
Byrne is planning to build a 22,000-square-foot addition to the south side of its 138,000-square-foot Ultra Dairy facility at 6750 W. Benedict Road.
The family-owned company said the expansion will create 64 full-time jobs paying from $37,000 to $54,000 a year. The facility employs 198 people, so the project will expand its workforce to 262.
The addition will give the company the ability to produce dairy products with an unrefrigerated shelf life of up to a year.
Opened in 2003, the plant currently uses ultra-high temperatures to produce milk, cream and non-dairy products with shelf lives from 70 to 180 days. With the addition of an “aseptic” processing and packaging area to the facility, its products will have a shelf life of up to one year without refrigeration., according to the company.
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