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Zack Mahoney enters spring as the clear #2 QB on the Syracuse depth chart
Syracuse football spring practice preview (quarterbacks) (PS; Mink)
Syracuse football opens spring practice next week, and to help set the table for Year 2 of the Dino Babers era, syracuse.com/The Post-Standard will run through each position group.
We'll start with quarterback, a group led by returning starter Eric Dungey.
Who will practice:
Jr. Eric Dungey
One thing to know: Dungey is healthy after missing the final three games of the 2016 season.
Sr. Zack Mahoney
One thing to know: Mahoney enters the season as the clear No. 2, having filled in for Dungey down the stretch last season.
rFr. Rex Culpepper
One thing to know: Culpepper is the strongest quarterback on the roster, according to Dungey.
rFr. Mo Hasan
One thing to know: Hasan, a walk-on out of Dillard High School, saw plenty of competition in South Florida.
Syracuse has been searching for stability at the quarterback position since 2012, when Ryan Nassib led the team to eight victories, a mark the program has only hit twice since 2001.
A healthy Dungey gives Syracuse its best chance to make a bowl game for the first time since 2013, but he will need to help from a young, still-developing offensive line and a receiving corps that returns a couple nice pieces in Steve Ishmael and Ervin Philips and a lot of unproven prospects in the underbelly of the depth chart.
Lamar Jackson of UL
ACC spring storylines to watch (orlandosentinel.cxom; Murchel)
The Atlantic Coast Conference is riding a wave of enthusiasm after Clemson captured the national championship last season. The Tigers head into spring practice with some concerns after losing some talent as do programs like North Carolina, Miami and Florida State. Here is a look at some of the top storylines:
It’s next man up for Clemson
Clemson returns just 12 starters from last season’s national championship squad thanks in part to the four players who declared early for the NFL Draft. Deshaun Watson, Wayne Gallman, Mike Williams and Artavis Scott accounted for a bulk of the team’s offense in 2016 – nearly 6,000 total yards – leaving a huge hole that needs to be filled this spring. The good news for the Tigers is that Dabo Swinney and his staff landed a top 20 recruiting class including a couple of 5-star prospects in quarterback Hunter Johnson and wide receiver Tee Higgins. Is it enough for Clemson to win its third straight conference championship for the first time since 1986-88?
Teams need to replace big name quarterbacks
The league was well-represented at the quarterback position last season thanks to players like Clemson’s Deshaun Watson, North Carolina’s Mitch Trubisky and Miami’s Brad Kaaya. All three of those players are now gone leaving their respective programs searching for new leaders. Kelly Bryant is the favorite to replace Watson in leading the Tigers while North Carolina and Miami will have closely competitions during the spring.
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ACC Blog (espn; Hale)
North Carolina waved goodbye to nearly its entire offense after the 2016 season, with wide receiver Austin Proehl among the rare returning players with starting experience. We caught up with Proehl to see how all the new faces on UNC’s offense are fitting in this spring.
Q. Has it been difficult, after a couple years with some offensive consistency, to see so much change all at once?
A. Yeah, it’s definitely felt different. Seeing some of those guys that are gone, it’s hard. Some of those guys were my best friends on and off the field. But it’s one of those things where I’ve been around the game long enough to know it happens, it happens every year. You just have to work through it and you have to go in with what you’ve got, and that’s what we’re doing.
Q. Larry Fedora always talks about no one having a starting job locked up in the spring, but is there a little more energy because this year, there really are a lot of jobs up for grabs?
A. Absolutely. We have a bunch of young guys that want to prove themselves and show our coaches that they can play and help our team win. It’s big. The past couple years, it was what it was. We had a bunch of guys that knew they were going to play, and they would start. A lot of spots were locked in. We had backups fighting for jobs, but this year, you have to prove you can start and play a full game. I think a bunch of guys have a chip on their shoulder and want to prove -- not just coaches, but people back home and fans -- that they came here and they deserve to be playing at North Carolina.
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ACC Football Rx: ACC Network News - Scheduling (accfootballrx.com)
David Teel says "ACC likely to amp up Week One of 2019 football schedule".
When the SEC Network launched in August 2014, viewers were treated to an opening weekend which began with a Thursday night conference game - Texas A&M @ South Carolina - followed by another league game Saturday afternoon (Auburn vs. Arkansas). With ESPN also partnering with the ACC, expect something similar when the ACC Network launches.
Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, Louisville and Duke have marquee non-league games that week against Boise State, Florida, South Carolina, Purdue and Alabama, respectively. NC State hosts East Carolina, a game with regional appeal but not likely for the ACC Network launch.
However, good candidates for conference games remain with Virginia Tech and Clemson currently set to play FCS opponents, which could presumably be rescheduled between now and 2019. Potential ACC opponents for VT include Boston College and Pitt. For Clemson, Syracuse and Georgia Tech could be the foe on opening week if the league chooses to go that route.
“You want to have a quality launch, and certainly games that are appealing are really important,” Swofford told Teel. “We are spending a lot of time talking about scheduling... There are some concerns about those (FCS) games being frontloaded on everybody’s schedule. That’s probably not good going forward with our business decisions and scheduling decisions related to the channel.”
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Snowstorm could be biggest in Central NY in 10 years; near-blizzard conditions (PS; Coin)
The dangerous winter storm bearing down on the Northeast could be the biggest in Central New York in a decade.
"This is probably one of the strongest widespread storms we have seen in Central New York since at least 2007 and possibly longer," said David Nicosia, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
The storm is moving farther west than originally forecast, which means Syracuse will likely get even more snow than previously forecast. The latest predictions are 18 to 24 inches, and some areas could see even more.
Projected snowfall totals are increasing as a major winter storm tracks more to the west than earlier expected. Some parts of Upstate New York could get 30 inches.National Weather Service
The center of the storm will lie along the East Coast, Nicosia said.
"This thing looks like it's going to hug the coast," he said, "and when the center of the storm hugs the coast, that's when Central New York gets big snows."
Heavy snow will move in this morning from the southeast, falling at blinding rates of 2 to 3 inches per hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., then slow slightly and continue through midnight. The heaviest amounts will be south and east of Syracuse.
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