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Welcome to National Suspenders Day!
No belts today, guys. It’s National Suspenders Day! You can go fancy or casual, colorful patterns or plain neutrals, as long as they’re suspenders.
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.”
Luke 12:22-23
SU News
How Can We Improve Orange Madness? (TNIAAM; Keeley)
Orange Madness came and went on Friday. Good times were had by both the Syracuse Orange men's and women's basketball teams. Fans had a good time taking selfies with Jim Boeheim and Quentin Hillsman after the festivities. It met all of the minimum requirements of a [Insert Color] Madness event.
But in general, it all felt a little meh. Forgettable.
I suppose it doesn't matter. It's like worrying too much about the spring football game. Ultimately who cares? It makes no difference who wins or loses once the season starts.
But, you know, we're Syracuse University. We're Syracuse Basketball. If we're gonna do one of these Madness events, ours should be among the best in the nation.
Syracuse and Kentucky routinely compete for the attendance crown during the season and SU fans like being able to keep pace with the Wildcats. During their Big Blue Madness, Drake showed upand intro'd John Calipari to a packed arena. During Orange Madness, a Christian rapper you've never heard of played to a crowd of a couple hundred in a mostly-empty Carrier Dome.
If you want to be among the best, you have to act like it. So how can Syracuse improve things?
Go Big Or Go Small But Don't Go Medium
Orange Madness peaked in 2011 when Meek Mill appeared to delight the crowd and the players. The following year's event was marred by a fight and stabbing and ever since then SU has treated the event with passivity. They cut back on any kind of entertainment that might attract "you know who's" and instead just put the focus on the basketball. That's turned what was "an event" into a glorified scrimmage. I suppose that's true to the original concept of Midnight Madness but it's also robbed the event of any excitement or interest.
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Carrier Dome Discussion on Agenda for Syracuse Board of Trustees in November (DO; PS; Mattingly)
The Syracuse University Board of Trustees will take a vote at its November meeting on the future of the Carrier Dome, Chancellor Kent Syverud said Monday.
Much of the work that is going on with the Campus Master Plan will go in front of the Board of Trustees at its November meeting, Syverud said in an interview with The Daily Orange. He added that the university is “well teed up” for a decision this academic year.
“There’s a bunch of alternatives going before the Board of Trustees and which one they’ll select, I don’t know yet,” Syverud said. “I know we’re going to have fully documented the cost-benefits issues related to each.”
Syverud added that the Board of Trustees will decide if there will be further notice and comment after it makes its tentative decisions. Syverud said he would “be surprised if there isn’t some input and discussion after the November board meeting.”
The future of the Dome is a part of the Campus Master Plan, a component of Syverud’s Fast Forward initiative. Fast Forward involves the Campus Master Plan, the Academic Strategic Plan and Operational Excellence. The completion of the Academic Strategic Plan was announced over the summer.
SU has been looking to have a decision regarding the future of the Carrier Dome made by the end of this academic year.
SU has been weighing three options for the future of the Dome: replacing the current roof as is, installing a new roof structure while simultaneously making other improvements or building a different stadium off-site.
In January 2014, local officials discussed the possibility of building a new, off-site stadium in the city of Syracuse with the help of state funding. Mayor Stephanie Miner appointed a task force to look into the possibility of a new stadium, while Syverud created a workgroup to look into the viability of the Carrier Dome’s roof and it released its report relating to the current life span of the Dome last May.
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Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame to Expand Tonight (PS; Poliquin)
In a matter of mere hours, the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame will expand its membership to 216 when the six members of its 29th class is inducted this evening at Drumlins Country Club.
Speeches will be made, videos will be shown, applause will be heard. And a good time will be had by all in the banquet room, as has been the annual case around here since the mid-1980s.
Basketball, field hockey, golf, running, softball and sports administration will be honored in the persons of, alphabetically, Bill Aris, Marty Headd, Barbara Adams Henderson, Tom Scherrer, Ormie Spencer and Joan Thornton.
Additionally, the 1968-69 Bishop Ludden High School Gaelic Knights boys basketball squad will be saluted tonight as this year's "Team of Honor." And why not? Those Knights went 21-0 47 years ago.
The affair, scheduled to begin at 7 p.m., will be primarily sponsored by BlueRock Energy.
What follows is a brief review of the accomplishments of each of the honorees:
Bill Aris: Fayetteville-Manlius High School Boys and Girls Cross-Country Coach; 2014 National and New York State Cross Country Coach of the Year; has guided the -M girls to eight national championships in the last nine years along with nine consecutive state championships; has coached -M boys to seven state titles; in 2014, his boys and girls teams made -M the first high school to win the boys and girls title in the same year; dubbed the "Lombardi of Team Running" by The Wall Street Journal; proponent of the "Stotan method" that combines philosophy with eating, sleeping, training and devotion to teammates.
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