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Welcome to National Strawberry Sundae Day!
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Celebrate today, with a Strawberry Sundae.
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Syracuse Football Recruiting: What Will Orange Do With Last Five 2017 Scholarships? (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
With 13 spots down, that technically leaves just five left in the class of 2017...
The Syracuse Orange already have 13 spots filled in the class of 2017. All are verbal agreements, and nothing is set in stone until each player signs a letter of intent. But for our purposes here, we'll assume all 13 end up at Syracuse.
That means SU has just five scholarships left to offer this class. When we last checked on the program's scholarship situation, there were 17 spots for 2017, but the team added one by way of 2016 signee Jo-El Shaw going the JUCO route instead.
Orange Coach Dino Babers and his staff have yet to firmly commit to what positions those five could be used for (can't blame them there). That said, we can take some educated guesses based on where the current roster sites.
The grid below outlines the current scholarship players by position, only accounting for players who exhaust their eligibility in 2016 through 2019:
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Ron Oyer, former Linton High, SU football star dies (cbsalbany.com; Sherman)
Linton High School graduate Ron Oyer, a 1961 prep football All American and a 1962 NYS shot put champion, has passed away.
Oyer was a key halfback/fullback on the powerhouse Syracuse football teams of the mid-1960's, where shared the offensive backfield with the likes of Floyd Little, Larry Czonka, and Tom Coughlin. As a senior, Oyer served as team captain of the Orangemen.
Out of college, the former multi-sport standout ended his athletic career to join the U.S. Marine Corps and fight in Vietnam. Following his military career, Oyer held multiple titles including Athletics Director at Syracuse, and in later years as President of a real estate investments firm in St. Louis.
Oyer returned to his hometown in 2007 for induction into the Schenectady City School District Athletic Hall of Fame.
Remembering Ron Oyer (timesunion.com; Cermak)
During a recent Giant training camp visit, I hoped for a chance to ask Coach Tom Coughlin if he remembered Ron Oyer, a Syracuse University football teammate in the ’60s.
“Yeah, he was a good guy,” Coughlin said while using an end-around sprint trying to escape autograph hounds. Because I was a lineman back in the Stone Age, I diagnosed the misdirection play and made the stop.
Oyer was a Linton High running back/linebacker ranked with the best Capital Region players in the last half-century.
I asked Coughlin if he was Oyer’s understudy at Syracuse. “He got hurt and I wound up playing. I guess that’s what happened, I can’t remember,” the coach said. Coughlin, never known to be Mr. Congeniality, fled before I could ask about more Syracuse recollections.
In light of the brief interview, I called Oyer in St. Louis. “Against Penn State, the season’s fifth game, I scored a touchdown but suffered a thigh injury that ended my senior season,” Oyer recalled. Coughlin took over at halfback.
Oyer was in the backfield with All-Americans Floyd Little and Larry Csonka, among the top rushers in Syracuse history. During his three varsity years, the Orange finished ranked between ninth and 12th in the nation.
“Coughlin was a little short on talent, but he made up for that with enthusiasm and guts,” Oyer said. “He was so intense he knew the assignments for every single position.”
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Watch: Syracuse quarterback commit Tommy DeVito on first day of The Opening 2016 (oregonlive.com; Christopher)
It was a soft opening at The Opening 2016 on Wednesday.
Nike's annual football training camp begins in full at Nike World Headquarters on Friday, but the quarterbacks got an early start with light drills on Wednesday morning. Don Bosco Prep quarterback Tommy DeVito - a 6-foot-2, 182-pound prospect and native of Ramsey, New Jersey - was among the Elite 11 quarterbacks throwing passes on Wednesday. He took a few minutes after practice to talk about The Opening, his commitment to Syracuse and more.
Watch the video above to see DeVito discuss his summer, and check back withoregonlive.com/recruiting for more throughout the week at The Opening 2016.
Syracuse Football 2016 Opponent Preview: Pittsburgh Panthers (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Last one. Get excited!
As you already knew (since we're pretty far into these), we've been taking a look at all of the Syracuse Orange's opponents for this fall. The schedule is still as difficult as always. Just the same, we're choosing an optimistic outlook on each week, where possible. Today, we conclude with the:
Pittsburgh Panthers
School: University of Pittsburgh
Mascot: Panthers
#BRAND Slogan: "Hail to Pitt"
Alternate #BRAND Slogan Suggestions: "Home of team that won hockey." "No, the OTHER team that plays in this stadium."
Recommended Blog: Cardiac Hill
Conference: ACC
Coach: Pat Narduzzi, 2nd year. Outside of being revealed as a sadistic lunatic that doesn't care about people's allergies, it's been a pretty nice ride of Narduzzi at Pitt so far. He's taken a team that already ran the ball well and continued that. He's taken a capable defense and made it more aggressive even if not turnover-driven just yet. Pitt, for all its mediocrity and Birmingham Bowl streaks of late, is a program on very solid footing right now, and has the look (to some) of a team on the rise. In the wide-open Coastal, Narduzzi can quickly get the Panthers contending for a conference crown.
2015 Record: (8-5) (6-2)
Recapping Last Season:
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Ervin Philips — Meet the 2016 Syracuse Football team (the juice; Cheng)
One of the staples of former offensive coordinator Tim Lester’s playbook last season was the hybrid position, manned by Ervin Philips and Donate Strickland.
It was part running back. Part receiver. Part blocker.
A hybrid could run anything from a wheel route to a route into the flat, and on the next play, could be assigned to pick up a blitzing linebacker.
When Syracuse head coach Dino Babers arrived with his lightening fast offense, he made it abundantly clear that the hybrid position would be a thing of the past. Receivers were receivers. Running backs were running backs.
For Philips, that meant a transition from H-back to slot receiver, a position that he was focused during all of spring practices.
“Looking on the outside in, it looks simple,” Philips said during spring practice. “But when you get in there, it’s a tough position.”
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Jake Pickard — Meet the 2016 Syracuse Football team (the juice; Cheng)
Syracuse’s new Tampa 2 defensive scheme relies on defensive line pressure to disrupt the offense and force it into making bad plays.
Needless to say, Syracuse will need its defensive ends to be a big part of this.
But DE is one of SU’s biggest question marks heading into the 2016 season. The Orange’s starting ends for the spring scrimmage were redshirt freshman Jake Pickard and true freshman Kenneth Ruff.
Behind them was junior Trey Dunkelberger, who transitioned from tight end to defensive end this spring. Syracuse will also has freshmen Jaquwan Nelson, Joshua Black and Kendall Coleman. Combined, they have played exactly zero snaps at defensive end at the college level.
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A walk in Thornden Park in Syracuse (photo gallery; PS; Nett)
A walk in Thornden Park in Syracuse. Thornden Park began as a farm owned by Zebulon Ostrom, who sold it to a wealthy salt miner James P. Haskins around 1850.
In 1921 the city purchased the land as part of the nationwide City Beautiful movement. The park has Swimming pool (50 m), One multi-purpose field, five tennis courts, three basketball courts a playground a fitness trail the E.M. Mills Memorial Rose Garden an outdoor amphitheatre, and a Lily pond.
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