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Welcome to National Gibberish Day!
National Gibberish Day is dedicated to a type of speech that is nonsensical, or appears to be so. Gibberish may be random speech sounds that mean nothing, or it may be speech that means something, but is a specific jargon that not many people understand. Most times, gibberish refers to informal speech, while gobbledygook refers to the formal writing or speech that is so technical and convoluted that it can't be easily understood. The word gibberish was first used in the early 16th century, and the name may be an onomatopoeia of what unintelligible speech may sound like. Another theory is the name stems from an 8th century Persian chemist named Jabir, who wrote in technical jargon.
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Get to know LSU, Syracuse football's next opponent (PS; Mink)
Syracuse football is making its first trip to LSU for a Saturday night game in Death Valley this weekend.
You're on your own to impress the locals with your tailgating proficiency (and good luck with that!), but Nate Mink is here to save you from utter embarrassment and help you knowledgably talk about the Tigers at said tailgate.
DON'T DISS COACH O; BLAME THE AD
LSU fans are a bit depressed this week after their team suffered a 37-7 shellacking last week at Mississippi State.
Many observers were skeptical when the school promoted Ed Orgeron from interim coach to full-time coach, and the loss last week has only stoked fears they may not have the guy to beat Nick Saban and win an SEC championship.
But don't direct your ire toward the former Syracuse assistant coach. Instead, bring up athletic director Joe Alleva. He settled for his third choice after failing to reel in Tom Herman (Texas) or Jimbo Fisher (Florida State).
Fans might counter and say Larry Fedora or any other supposed candidate wasn't going to move the needle anyway, but names like Dan Mullen or Mike Gundy wouldn't seem so bad now, would they?
No one faults Orgeron. He's living out his dream job and really made the most of his situation last year as the interim coach.
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Lacking depth, the LSU defensive line prepares for Syracuse's super up-tempo offense (seccountry.com; Suss)
Starting defensive end Rashard Lawrence is questionable for the Tigers’ game versus Syracuse on Saturday. Nose tackle Ed Alexander is out. Defensive end Neil Farrell will miss the first half thanks to a targeting suspension. Senior defensive end Frank Herron isn’t expected to dress for the fourth time in four games. Greg Gilmore is the only true nose tackle LSU has eligible, and inexperienced youngsters such as Glen Logan, Justin Thomas and Deondre Clark will be expected to play significant minutes.
And oh yeah, Syracuse’s offense runs the fourth-most plays per game of any team in the FBS.
“It doesn’t matter if we have three guys, we’re going to go out and play,” senior defensive end Christian LaCouture said. “If we have to play the whole game, it doesn’t matter. That’s why conditioning is such a huge thing. I really feel like with the game plans that we have and the practices we do, I think we’ll be ready to go. No matter what we have or how many people we have, we’ll be ready to play ball.”
LaCouture is a living, breathing example of this. Last week versus Mississippi State, LSU was even thinner on the defensive line than it will be Saturday since Thomas didn’t travel to Starkville with the team. As a result of this lack of depth, LaCouture played virtually every defensive snap and amassed a career-high 11 tackles in the process.
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Rabalais: Marcus Spears' harsh swipes at LSU hit on hard truths, now program must face them head on (theadvocate.com; Rabalais)
Marcus Spears took “Tell the Truth Monday” to a new level this week.
The former LSU All-American, now one of the top football analysts on the SEC Network, got on his show “Thinking Out Loud” Monday night and spoke truth to power.
Or, more to the point, he spoke truth to the program he believes isn’t a college football power anymore: LSU.
“LSU fans, as an LSU alumnus, we aren't who we think we are," Spears said. "We've become a mediocre football team, and a middle-of-the-pack, very average college football program. We have to stop believing that we are one of those teams that at the end of the year is going to be standing tall.”
Spears’ words take on a projectile-like sharpness in the wake of the Tigers’ 37-7 blowout loss Saturday night at Mississippi State. It was LSU’s worst loss ever against State, and the most points the Bulldogs have ever scored against the Tigers.
Spears took particular note of the downturn the LSU program has taken since its loss to Alabama in 2012 BCS National Championship Game. Since the 2011 season, in which LSU went 8-0 in the Southeastern Conference and beat Georgia in the SEC Championship Game, the Tigers are 25-16 in SEC regular-season games with no appearances in the SEC title game.
That’s a winning percentage of 61 percent. Overall, LSU is 47-19 since 2012, a winning percentage of .712. It’s not awful, but as Spears noted, “that’s average.
“That’s mediocre,” he said. “We’ve got to stop thinking of LSU as what we thought LSU was. A 61 percent winning percentage over the last five years? We’ve got to do better.
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LSU Football is Not Mediocre (andthevalleyshook.com; Crewe)
In December 2015, I wrote an article detailing why LSU football was anything but “mediocre”, a word often used by critics of LSU’s recent performance. 8 months later, we fired our head coach.
Last night, LSU legend Marcus Spears took to his new television program (which is great, by the way) to put his beloved football program on blast:
.@mspears96 has a message for LSU fans:#TOL pic.twitter.com/vBEdqsBB1E
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) September 18, 2017
First, let’s address the elephant in the room. Spears is a burgeoning media personality (and a good one), with a new TV show he would like to succeed, doing a segment titled “Come @ Me” with the obvious intention of increasing social engagement. This is a very run of the mill smash and grab ratings bit and that’s... okay. Next week, I’m sure they will skewer some other school. This week, LSU’s poor performance rightfully earns them media ridicule. I have zero interest in attacking Marcus. If you read some of his replies, I think he also has hopes this can be used to help motivate the team to improve. So I don’t think he’s coming from a nasty place, even if the producer insisted he film this in front of an Alabama championship banner. /fin
Couching all that, let’s look at Marcus’ actual argument here, in text form:
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Orange Watch: First Syracuse-LSU meeting in Louisiana was a historic Sugar Bowl tale - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: When Syracuse and LSU meet Saturday night (7:00 p.m. ET / ESPN2) for the fourth game of their all-time series, it will mark the first time SU has played in Baton Rouge, with the accompanying color and pageantry that comes from a Saturday night kickoff at 102,000-plus seat Tiger Stadium, a.k.a. Death Valley. But it’s not the first time the programs have met in the Tigers home state. That was the 1965 Sugar Bowl, played on New Year’s Day in New Orleans, an eventual come-from-behind LSU victory.
A few months before LSU’s visit to the Dome during the 2015 season to kick off this about-to-expire, two game, home-and-home series, we wrote about the historical aspect to the 1965 Sugar Bowl game, the first meeting between the schools.
One, a traditional football program from “the East,” as described by the Sugar Bowl committee in extending an invitation to Ben Schwartzwalder’s Orangemen following a 7-3 finish to the 1964 season, and a southern power from the SEC with an all-white roster playing in the segregated pre-1964 era in the United States, which had not faced an opposing team that had African-American players on its roster.
» Related: Once known as ‘The Loud House,’ Syracuse football struggles to fill seats at Dome
That changed on Jan. 1, 1965 when LSU met Syracuse at long demolished Tulane Stadium in the Sugar Bowl Classic, weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Louisiana’s state law prohibiting racial integration at public entertainment and athletic events was unconstitutional.
The bowl game invite for the ‘64 team was the first for Schwartzwalder in two seasons, and it was offered despite a season-ending loss at home to West Virginia, mainly because of two players, Floyd Little and Jim Nance. The Orange duo had rushed for a combined almost 1,800 yards, and 25 touchdowns or 14 more TDs than Charlie McClendon’s Bengal Tigers had as a team during their 7-2-1 regular season. They would also become the first African American players to face a LSU team.
Syracuse started off strong on New Year’s afternoon. Lineman Dennis Reilly blocked a Tigers punt in the first quarter and Brad Clarke ran the ball back 28 yards to give SU a 10-2 (LSU tackled Little in the end zone for a safety) advantage, but those 10 points would end up being all the SU scoring for the day, and Nance (70) and Little (48) combined for only 118 yards rushing as the game flipped on the Tigers turning up their defense in the second half.
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Syracuse Football: Rushing attack leads the way for Orange (itlh.com; Carey)
Was this Syracuse football rushing attack fact or fiction? Here are some of the key highlights from the Orange’s victory over Central Michigan
The Syracuse football squad defeated Central Michigan on Saturday in the Carrier Dome before a crowd of 33,000 and change.
The Orange got off to a slow start on the offensive side of the football, but turned it on in the third quarter in an impressive way by running the ball.
The Orange racked up 300 yards of offense on the ground, the most in the Dino Babers era. However, it was not Syracuse starting running back Dontae Strickland that broke off long runs, it was other players that stepped up for Syracuse. We will break down how these players broke off their long runs.
Moe Neal’s 71-yard run
On the second play of Syracuse’s first drive in the third quarter, explosive Syracuse running back, Moe Neal took a hand off and made a great read. Neal was patient and waited for the hole to open up in the middle of the field where he could find some running room. Neal found his crease, put his foot in the ground and made a great cut back, something that starter Dontae Strickland struggles to do, and nearly took it to the house.
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Q and some A, on ACC from a day of R&R (remote & recliner) :: WRALSportsFan.com (wralsportsfan.com; Holliday)
Most Saturdays I see ACC football live at a stadium somewhere in the Triangle. This weekend I decided to binge watch on television. So while some of you were getting rest and relaxation, I enjoyed a different kind of R&R, putting my remote and recliner into hyper-overdrive. I watched some 13 hours of college football: 12 ACC plus the end of the Texas-Southern Cal game. The day began with many questions about teams in the ACC. Happily, I can report, we did get some answers Saturday.
NC State: Will an older, bigger offensive line help the struggling run game?
The Wolfpack played its first two games with something of a makeshift offensive line and struggled to run the football.
On Saturday against Furman, big Will Richardson returned to left tackle from a two-game suspension, and State backs, for the first time all season, ran behind “the starting five” up front. The difference was palpable. Nyheim Hines, especially, churned out real estate, gaining 92 yards on just 11 carries. To be sure, State didn’t exactly put the passing game in mothballs. Offensive Coordinator Eli Drinkwitz in fact called passes on the Pack’s first four plays from scrimmage, making us wait a couple of minutes to see the beefed-up run game. But, in the final analysis, State attained perfect run-pass balance, with 242 yards on the ground and 248 through the air. To be sure, the quality of the opponent had something to do with State’s success (and probably a lot to do with it). But it was important to see the Pack run when it wanted to run prior to this week’s big matchup with Florida State.
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Algae toxins found in Skaneateles drinking water, officials say (PS; Coin)
Toxins from a massive algae bloom on Skaneateles Lake have been found in the village of Skaneateles drinking water, public officials said in a statement issued late Tuesday.
It's the first confirmation since the algal bloom began Friday that toxins have entered drinking water drawn from the lake. The village of Skaneateles gets its drinking water from the city of Syracuse, according to the village's annual water report.
The samples tested Tuesday contained 0.26 parts per billion of microcystins, a toxic chemical released by blue-green algae, the statement said.
The accepted levels in treated drinking water are 0.3 parts per billion for children. and 1.6 ppb for adults, on a 10-day average, said Gregory Boyer, a biochemistry professor at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry who runs a major testing lab for blue-green algae.
"The results are below the EPA's 10-day health advisory level of .30 parts per billion for sensitive populations, so residents can continue to drink the water while ongoing sampling continues," said the statement, issued by the New York State Department of Health, Onondaga County Health Department and city of Syracuse Department of Water.
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