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Welcome to Forgive Your Foe Friday!
Try to find enough forgiveness in your heart to alleviate the anger, confusion or hatred you may be feeling towards other people or even towards yourself. Anger is dangerous and can lead us to make foolish mistakes. We have seen too many crimes committed by the lack of control of anger. Give it your best effort to try and forgive. For your sake, and for the sake of others. We really must break free of holding grudges. They say that holding a grudge against someone is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Orange Watch: Part II, 2016 Syracuse football game-by-game previews and predictions - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Part II – The second half of the season, beginning with game seven, follows. The first half of the season, which ran Tuesday, is here.
Just when Virginia Tech is scheduled to play a rare game in Syracuse due to the ACC’s current home/away scheduling rotation between the Atlantic and Coastal Divisions, future Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer, who had an atypical Dome record of 1-5 while both schools were in the Big East, has gone off to retirement after 29 seasons in Blacksburg. In comes a coach with a lot of promise in Justin Fuente, who turned his four seasons at Memphis, including a 1-8 start in his first nine games, and a 26-23 overall record, into the launching pad to land as Beamer’s successor for a program truly at a crossroads. Tech has gone 7-6 three of the last four seasons, winning three of four lower rung bowl games, but much more is expected for a school that made eight appearances in major bowl games under Beamer. The Orange make their only October home date a memorable one putting points on the scoreboard in each quarter of a 35-30 nail-biting victory, not decided until a Hokies fourth down pass on the SU 12 yard line goes awry with 0:10 to play and drops Virginia Tech’s all-time Dome record to 2-6. (4-3, 2-1)
It’s simply amazing to us that a full 12 seasons after he left the Syracuse program, having already coached for 32 years, Pasqualoni is still recruiting vigorously and teaching young men the game that has been his life, from high school, to Div III, to the NFL, and back to college again, now as the defensive line coach for Steve Addazio atBoston College, a role reversal from the duo’s days at SU where Addazio served as a Coach P assistant for four years in the late 1990s. While both teams had trouble scoring last season, that’s not the case this year, nor in this game played on a beautiful Indian summer day in suburban Boston. In a back and forth affair that had all the makings of a game in which the team with the ball last would win, the Eagles oblige, driving 60 yards against a tired ‘Cuse “D” in the final minutes to win a wild one 40-38.(4-4, 2-2)
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2016 ACC Football Preview: Syracuse Orange | InsideTheACC (acc.sportswater.com; Cates)
The Orange open up the Dino Babers era with a manageable schedule and a sneaky amount of talent returning from last season’s 4-8 squad. Can they improve the record in year one of a major rebuild, or will it take time to get the “Loud House” rocking again?
The Coach
Dino Babers brings his high-powered offense to a program that sorely needs an infusion of scoring. Last season, Bowling Green finished fifth in the nation in passing offense with 366.8 yards per game under the guidance of Babers and his Baylor-styled attack.
Factor in the ground game and the Falcons had the fourth best total offense in the land a year ago (546.8 YPG). Naturally, many will be skeptical of those kinds of numbers because they were racked up against primarily MAC conference foes. However, for the 2015 season-opener the Falcons headed to Knoxville and gave No. 25 Tennessee fits putting up 557 total yards and 24 first downs. The Volunteers led just 35-27 in the third quarter before pulling away late for a comfortable win.
Babers has installed quite possibly the most wide-open passing scheme in Orange history, but do they have the horses to make it go right now?
The Offense
#Cuse avg 9.28 yards/dropback (passes, sacks, scrambles) on 1st down last year — 7th-best in P5, same rate as Cal (& No. 1 pick Jared Goff).
— David Hale (@DavidHaleESPN) August 15, 2016
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Syracuse football: Are Orange bringing back two-way players this fall? (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
When Dino Babers arrived to take over the Syracuse Orange football program, he emphasized a clean slate for the roster. Players would get a chance to prove themselves and the best players would play.
What we may not have expected was the wide range of position changes that have occurred, however. Back in spring, new wide receivers were added to the depth chart, as were some players green to the defensive end spot. This summer, the trend has continued with a host of other switches, including Trey Dunkelberger heading back to tight end and a slew of potential switches alluded to in practice this Monday.
Some of the most notable moves have been in the last two weeks, where two defensive players — defensive back Scoop Bradshaw and linebacker-turned-defensive-end Kenneth Ruff -- started taking extensive snaps on offense. What we thought may have started off as cross-training could end up being a permanent thing now. While that’s surprising given defensive depth issues (especially on the line), the more shocking part has been what Babers said today:
Dino Babers believes Kenneth Ruff will play both ways at TE/DE. Says a lot about SU's depth.
— Stephen Bailey (@Stephen_Bailey1) August 25, 2016
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Syracuse Football: The goal is to get to six (insidetheloudhouse.com; Edsen Jr)
With Dino Babers entering his first year in the fold, he’s taking it one game at a time. The primary goal for Syracuse football in year one is to get to six.
The Syracuse football team is heading for uncharted waters with new head coach, Dino Babers, in 2016. Babers is trying to turn a program around that hasn’t been great in a long time.
While it seems like a colossal effort to turn things around, Babers has reiterated that he’s taking it one game at a time. Is it coach speak?
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Of course it is, but there’s some truth buried in those coaching cliches that are thrown around. Especially for a program like Syracuse who faces tough odds in a stacked ACC conference.
Syracuse plays in the Atlantic, which is perhaps the most top heavy conference in all of college football. Which plays a major role in the fact that Syracuse has the 10th toughest schedule in the entire nation.
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2016 NYS Fair: Reviews and maps of every food stand on the fairgrounds (PS; Staff)
We sent about 50 reporters to the New York State Fair today to sample everything they could eat — from alligator to deep-fried Oreos — at every food stand on the fairgrounds. Our staff reviewed the food and the service, and offered up their tips to help guide your dining choices.
Food vendors are listed below alphabetically. Click or tap the star icon to read our review — check back regularly as we're posting reviews live. We will also soon add maps to each vendor's location on the fairgrounds.
Do you know of a vendor we missed? Let us know in the comments below and we'll send a hungry reporter to fill the gap.
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Vendor Map Review
Alivero's (West End)
Anthony's 19th Hole (Poultry-Dairy Row)
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