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Welcome to Susan B Anthony Day!
Today we celebrate Susan B. Anthony, who was born on today's date in 1820. Susan B. Anthony Day is not officially celebrated nationally. In 2011, Representative Carolyn Maloney introduced the Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act, which would have designated the third Monday in February as Susan B. Anthony Day, but the bill did not become law. The holiday is celebrated in some capacities on the state level. As of 2019, Florida is the only state where Susan B. Anthony Day is an official holiday on February 15. In Wisconsin and California, the holiday is celebrated in public schools. In West Virginia, the holiday is celebrated on election day on even-numbered years. Anthony's birthday is celebrated each August in Massachusetts. Additionally, Susan B. Anthony Day is celebrated unofficially across the country, as the birthdays of prominent historical figures often are.
Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. Her Aunt Susan, whom she had been named after, married a man named Brownell, and that is where Anthony got her middle initial from. Her family was made up of Quakers and activists, and in 1845 they moved to Rochester, New York, where they became part of the abolitionist movement. Anthony became a teacher, where she pushed for educational reforms, such as for more inclusion for girls and African Americans.
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Gabe Horan ‘blindsided’ by medical disqualification 1 month after thinking concussion was behind him (PS; Mink)
For more than a month, Gabe Horan experienced headaches. He had trouble focusing on his schoolwork. Being around loud conversation bothered him.
Horan, a freshman tight end for the Syracuse football team, had gotten hit unexpectedly in practice the week leading up to the Clemson game in late September, and the residual effects of that collision lingered too long for the SU medical staff’s comfort.
About two weeks after the injury, Horan’s mother said, the possibility of medical disqualification was broached by the team physician. It was a complete 180 for Horan, who was days removed from scoring a touchdown on his first reception playing in front of the crowd for his hometown college and was in line to possibly take on a larger role at tight end while a senior at his position recovered from an injury.
Then in December, days before Syracuse football would travel to Orlando for the Camping World Bowl to cap its best season in 17 years, Horan and his mother were called in for a meeting to discuss Horan’s medical progress.
Awaiting them was stunning news they never expected to hear.
Horan’s football career at Syracuse was over.
"We didn’t even know that was what the subject was going to be,” Horan’s mother Angela said. “I feel blindsided, but it is what it is.”
Horan’s case sheds light on how Syracuse football handles the delicate matter of head injuries in a brutal sport. The Baldwinsville native suffered an ocular concussion that affected his eyes. His mother said SU started Horan on ocular therapy in the beginning of October, about a week after the hit in practice.
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A Strong Foundation Keeps Syracuse University Ahead of the ACC Network Curve )sportsvideo.org; Hernandez)
Although the cold weather is at its peak in central New York, productions at Syracuse University are heating up in the months leading up to the launch of the ACC Network. While other ACC members have put their hard hats on and rolled up their sleeves for extensive overhauls, Senior Producer Scott Hecht, Broadcast Engineer Tom White, and company are in an advantageous situation through work done in the past.
Control Room PCR-A houses a Ross XPression graphics, an Evertz DreamCatcher, and a Lawo mc256 audio console.
“We’ve been lucky because, while many schools had to start from the very beginning, we had the brick and mortar already in place,” Hecht says. “The forward thinking of this university has got us to the point where we are right now.”
The Backbone
When White arrived at Syracuse in July 2017, the university was months into a connectivity overhaul. After the construction was completed, 338 strands of fiber (228 stemming from the Carrier Dome) had been laid to connect seven facilities to the program’s central nervous system, the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. For one venue in particular, the Drumlins Country Club, White developed a flypack to produce a broadcast via IP for tennis productions.
At a university that fields 18 NCAA Division I teams, things can become a bit hectic. Despite the busy schedule, the department comprises only Hecht, White, Operations Manager Jim Hamilton, and producer Kristin Hennessey. On game day, the core four rely on a staff of mostly freelance workers.
“These are all people that Tom has worked with for many years in this market and brought them over [to Syracuse],” Hecht says. “I think that allows us to execute some shows at a higher degree since there isn’t as much teaching. We would love to have more students and get more students, but we play with what we have right now.”
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ACC Football Rx: Breaking down OTA profiles - 2/15/19 (RX; HM)
We know there are lots of people "cutting the cord", but are they all doing it for the same reason?
Growth in over-the-air TV homes
2010 - only 11 million
2014 - up to 12 million
2018 - now at 16 million
But we can also subdivide over-the-air (OTA) viewers into those who supplement their antenna with subscription video on demand (SVOD) and those who don't...
ACC Football Rx: Notre Dame TV $$$ (RX; HM)
Notre Dame plays 12 football games just like everybody else, but unlike everybody else they are not football members of any conference - and that fact changes how those games are (or even can be) monetized. Take a look at this table...
Who controls
the games? #home
games can they
monetize?
Notre Dame 7 YES
ACC 2 or 3 YES
Pac-12* 1 (of 2) probably
Navy/AAC 0 or 1 YES
Big Ten 0 or 1 doubtful
other 0 or 1 unlikely
Why do I question the Big Ten's ability to monetize Notre Dame when the ACC, Pac-12 and AAC all can? Scheduling. Prior to their most recent TV contract extensions* the ACC already had a deal with Notre Dame for 5 games every year (alternating 2 or 3 on the ACC TV contract). The American (AAC) hasn't renewed its contract with ESPN yet, but when it does (or whoever they sign with), the Navy/Notre Dame games are locked-in. As for the Pac-12, they certainly knew in advance that the Irish would be playing Stanford and USC every year, one of which would be controlled by the Pac-12.
That leaves the Big Ten, which typically plays 1 or 2 games vs. Notre Dame every year, with 0 or 1 of those being controlled by the Big Ten. However, due to the apparently random nature of these games, I imagine it would be hard for the Big Ten to monetize them in any meaningful way:
Year - Big Ten opponent(s)
2019 - @ Michigan
2020 - Wisconsin (@ Green Bay)
2021 - Purdue (@ ND); Wisconsin (@ Chicago)
2022 - @ Ohio State
2023 - Ohio State (@ ND)
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Miami football: First-look 2019 depth chart projections (fansided.com; Romano)
The Miami Hurricanes are coming off an exciting offseason, here are how the cards have shuffled on the roster to fill out their 2019 depth chart.
There is a new head honcho in Coral Gables. Manny Diaz has taken over for the suddenly-retired Mark Richt. Diaz wasted no time in making his vision clear for this team. He loves the cache that comes with his hometown team. That is why he has dubbed this past offseason “TNM” or “The New Miami”
Diaz is not only enthralling the athletes on campus but has garnered some national interest as well. It seemed like a week or two could not go by without mention of the Hurricanes football program. These were positive stories too of recruits flipping or transfer portal players interested. The new staff is setting a tone, and it’s echoing with the players.
To say this change was much needed would be under-selling it. Richt was a great coach and a fantastic human being. He represented a lot of what Miami is, as a former player who came back with a pedigree of success. Unfortunately, his rigged approach to offense essentially killed the 2018 season. A season that was expected by many to elevate the program back into national prominence. This was all coming after a 2017 season that had the team back inside the top-10 and hunting for an ACC title.
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A look at the ACC following National Signing Day (tarheelblog.com; Cowden)
On November 27th, the University of North Carolina hired Mack Brown (again) as their head football coach. At the time, North Carolina’s 2019 recruiting class was ranked in the mid 60’s nationally and essentially the bottom of the ACC. Carolina had a handful of verbal commitments, a few of whom de-committed with Larry Fedora’s firing. Flash forward to the end of the “traditional” Signing Day and the Tar Heels finished with the 32nd ranked recruiting class in the country, and 6th best in the ACC in just a few months. Mack Brown and his staff have done an unbelievable job in their first few months in Chapel Hill.
Carolina wasn’t the only school who closed strong during the last few months of this recruiting cycle, however. Between freshmen who just signed and both incoming and out going transfers some programs going to look a lot different next year. So, in no particular order, here’s a review of some impact players and overall recruiting classes coming into the ACC.
Manny Diaz: Head Coach, Miami Hurricanes
Diaz has the unique distinction of being the head coach at two different universities during Signing Day in the SAME YEAR. We’ll have to have our research department double check this, but with the Early Signing Period being only a few years old it’s possible he’s the first coach to accept a head coaching job at one school (Temple) for the Early Signing Period, then accept a second head coaching job (Miami, FL) by the traditional Signing Day. Between previous Hurricane coach Mark Richt resigning and Miami hiring Diaz, the Hurricanes suffered over fifteen de-commitments, five of which were four or five star players.
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Louisville football: One player to watch at every position during spring (bigredlouie.com; Lane)
Spring practice has officially kicked off for Scott Satterfield and Louisville football, and there are several names that are worth watching leading up to the 2019 season.
Typically February is about basketball in the city of Louisville, especially this season as the Cards are out to a incredible start in the ACC and look to be headed toward a solid seed in the NCAA tournament. But under new head coach Scott Satterfield, Louisville football is kicking off spring football earlier than ever before.
After a 2-10 season, which quite possibly was one of the biggest disasters in recent program history, resulted in the firing of Bobby Petrino (and subsequent payout of $14 million) Vince Tyra brought in one of the brightest, up-and-coming coaches in the country in Scott Satterfield to turn the program around and get back on the collision course to a National Championship.
Spring practice beginning this early is a new deal for the Louisville football program, as Bobby Petrino began his practices in the last week or two of March with the Spring Game taking place in the middle of April. Satterfield likes to run his spring practices early in February for several reasons. When speaking with 790 KRD earlier this year he said:
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Four teams that might jump from the basement to a bowl (SI; Staff)
They may not always be easy to predict, but surprising turnarounds can be found everywhere in college football. Since the start of the BCS era in 1998, at least one team has improved from two wins or fewer to .500 or better the following year. Last year, Georgia Southern and Baylor both went to (and won) bowl games after posting a total of three wins between them in 2017, and in ’17 three teams jumped up to six or more wins after finishing ’16 in their conference basements.
Twelve teams won two or fewer games last fall. Who will produce 2019’s most surprising improvements? SI’s college football writers attempted to make the case for one potential turnaround candidates below.
JOAN NIESEN: ARKANSAS (2018 RECORD: 2–10)
This is not a case of last year's team being better than its record—the Razorbacks were genuinely bad, losing to Colorado State and North Texas before going 0–8 in SEC play—but rather of a second-year coach getting a grip on things. Chad Morris gets his former SMU quarterback, Ben Hicks, for a season as a graduate transfer, and he pulled in the No. 23 recruiting class this winter, up from No. 43 a year ago. Plus, Arkansas's non-conference schedule will likely give it some padding: it gets San Jose State, which won one game last year, along with a downtrodden Western Kentucky, FCS Portland State and Colorado State. As Morris’s spread gains traction, the Razorbacks just might have the stuff to muster the two SEC victories they should need to get to six wins and a bowl.
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Exclusive sneak peek of Destiny USA’s newest entertainment venue (photos) (PS; Buckshot)
What’s different about the newest entertainment venue that took over the former bowling alley space at Destiny USA?
“Everything,” said Lisa Napelitano, of Apex Entertainment.
Apex Entertainment has remodeled the 55,000-square-feet venue on the third level of Destiny USA’s Canyon Area that originally housed Revolutions and most recently was the home to All-Star Alley & Tavern, which closed in August 2018.
Napelitano took Syracuse.com on a sneak peek tour of the entertainment venue which is set to open later this month.
Apex, which currently has a location in Massachusetts, features virtual reality simulators, a two-level laser tag arena, bowling, arcade games, bumper cars, shuffle board and more. The venue also includes a bar and full-service kitchen, which will serve American-style cuisine, such as burgers, sandwiches and shareable appetizers.
The venue also has rooms available for kid’s birthday parties to corporate events and everything in between. It’s largest room can also host a wedding reception, Napelitano said.
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