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Welcome to Ballpoint Pen Day!
On June 10th of 1943, Hungarian brothers Laszlo and Gyorgy Biro walked into a European patent office to declare ownership of their new writing pen design. From this day on, countless ballpoint pens have been enjoyed by writers around the world, and this date has grown into the holiday National Ballpoint Pen Day to celebrate the achievements of these ingenious brothers.
While the British government quickly swooped in and bought the rights to the newly-patented pens, today’s ballpoint pens are used the world over and continue to represent an affordable and reliable means for writing on any standard surface. There’s even more to the story! Read about who invented the ballpoint pen.
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About 65 Syracuse players return to campus for voluntary workouts (DO; Hillman)
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About 65 Syracuse football players have returned to the Ensley Athletic Center for voluntary workouts, SU Athletics announced Tuesday. Every athlete, coach, football staff member and Department of Athletics staff member was tested for the coronavirus.
Redshirt senior offensive lineman Airon Servais, redshirt junior quarterback Tommy DeVito and junior wide receiver Taj Harris were among the players returning Tuesday. About 130 people were tested for COVID-19 in total.
SU has not announced the protocol for players or staff members who test positive for the virus, but players will be isolated for at most two weeks until they receive a negative result.
Student-athletes have been grouped into “pods” to accommodate social distancing guidelines from New York state and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the first phase of voluntary workouts, student-athletes are only allowed contact with those in their pod, including designated staff. The pods will eventually increase, first to 30 and later to the entire team.
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Syracuse Football: “Good” measures taken to keep team safe, player says (itlh; Adler)
Approximately 65 Syracuse football players have returned to the SU campus for voluntary workouts and underwent testing for COVID-19 on Tuesday morning, according to an announcement from the Orange athletics department.
Per the Syracuse Athletics press release, the tests were conducted at the Ensley Athletic Center, one day after the ‘Cuse student-athletes came back to Central New York to work with the team’s strength and conditioning coaches, as well as access the squad’s athletic facilities for voluntary workouts.
In total, about 130 players, coaches, football staff members and Department of Athletics personnel have gotten tested, the statement says.
The testing on Tuesday marks the first step in the university’s operational plan for Syracuse Athletics to safely reopen the weight room at the Iocolano-Petty Football Complex and other training facilities to enable football players to commence working out.
SU’s plan, developed in guidance with public-health and government officials, includes a phased approach to reintegrating football team members with each other.
Athletics department officials are enforcing social distancing and the use of protective equipment, including face masks, in all facilities. Shared equipment is getting cleaned and sanitized prior to, and after, each use by student-athletes.
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FBS or FCS? Contracts show scheduling UConn comes with... (theathletic.com; $; Auerbach)
Syracuse is well aware of its geography: It is quite far from most of its fellow Atlantic Coast Conference members.
When senior deputy athletics director Herman Frazier crafts the Syracuse football schedule, he always tries to include opponents in the northeast, such as Army, Rutgers and Temple. When UConn left the AAC to become an FBS independent, putting the Huskies in need of opponents, Syracuse was a perfect match.
“We think it makes sense for us to play those regional types of games whenever we can,” Frazier said. “Knowing that we had played UConn in the past and if they were going to continue to be a (FBS) program, we thought, why not go ahead and sign them?
“The second part of that is David Benedict, their athletic director, is a really good friend of mine. We worked together at Arizona State. Knowing they needed games and knowing that they fit within the footprint of what we wanted to do for Syracuse, it was a no-brainer.”
But Frazier still wanted to make sure he was going about it in a smart way. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which deeply affected all college athletic departments, going to the Big East for most sports and going independent in football would have some serious financial implications for UConn athletics. Could the Huskies afford to stay at the FBS level? What if they couldn’t?
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Top 3 Seasons in Syracuse Football History (Part 2) – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Singer)
We resume our countdown of the best football seasons in program history at No. 2. Without a doubt, several tremendous Syracuse teams were shown love in the honorable mentions, and at No. 3 with the 1992 squad.
It was certainly a close race for that No. 3 spot. Depending on who you talk to, compelling cases can be made for a number of the teams to come up just short.
Now, however, as we reach our top two, this upcoming pair of Syracuse teams might just stand alone in the annals of program history. Let’s get right to it with No. 2.
NO. 2: 1987 (11-0-1)
One of just two undefeated teams in program history. The 1987 team finished the year with 11 wins, no losses and one tie – an 11-0-1 record that certainly could have been 12-0 instead.
Long-time fans of the Orange likely remember vividly. Younger fans have probably heard all about it.
When SU played Auburn in the 1988 (1987 season) Sugar Bowl, the Orange led 16-13 until the bitter, bitter end. With just four seconds left, the Tigers had marched all the way down to the Syracuse 13-yard-line, and now faced a game-deciding decision. Down to the game’s final play, Auburn Head Coach Pat Dye could have chosen the all-or-nothing move, which was to go for the end zone – a Tigers touchdown would have won them the game while falling short would have given SU the win.
Sure enough, he elected for the other option… a field goal (lame!).
On the final play of the game, Dye sent out kicker Win Lyle (notice, his name wasn’t TIE Lyle… was it?) to boot a 30-yard chip shot, effectively ending the game in a 16-16 tie. This being the case with no overtime in college football until the 1995 bowl season.
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NCAA finalizing plan for extended college football preseason (AP; Russo)
After the pandemic wiped out spring practice for most major college football teams, an NCAA plan to extend the preseason by two weeks could help coaches and players make up for the lost time.
The NCAA's football oversight committee expects to finalize a plan on Thursday to allow teams to conduct up to 12 unpadded, slow-speed practices, also know as walk-throughs, during the 14 days before the typical preseason begins in August.
Teams will be permitted up to 20 hours per week of what the NCAA calls countable athletically related activities during those extra two weeks, leading into a normal 29-day preseason practice schedule. The walk-throughs will be part of those 20 hours per week, along with weight training, conditioning, film study and meetings. Players will not be permitted to wear pads or helmets during walk-throughs, which cannot exceed one hour per day.
Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly said the extra time on the field with a ball will be valuable for teaching schemes, but not necessarily for assessing player development.
“That going to be all the install that you didn't get in in the spring is really going to take place during that period of time,” Kelly said Tuesday. “They won't be an opportunity to see skills on display.”
The football oversight committee has been circulating its proposed schedule to NCAA members as a way to encourage feedback. West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons said he doesn't expect much to change before it is taken to the Division I Council for approval next week. The council meets June 17.
“I think there's been a lot of collaboration among the conferences,” Lyons said.
Schools have started this week bringing their football players back to campus for voluntary workouts — mostly weight training and conditioning — in team facilities. Players are being tested and screened for COVID-19 and will continue to be monitored for the coronavirus.
Under the oversight committee's plan, this period of voluntary activities would run until about July 12, depending on the exact date of a team's opening game.
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Bryan Brown sets an example of leadership role for players (SI; Draut)
Bryan Brown is an outlier, not the norm, as the defensive coordinator for Louisville football.
Less than 20 defensive coordinators of 130 Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) are African-American. Although a predominant amount of Power Five conferences’ rosters are comprised of African-American student athletes, the leadership roles in college football have yet to be equally dispersed.
Brown acknowledges the importance of being a minority coach in college football for student athletes because they are able to see people of color in leadership roles.
“It’s important for those guys to be able to see people of color, the same color as them, to be able to be in a leadership role to where they know at some point ‘if I want to be a defensive coordinator or a Fortune 500 company CEO, I can do that,’” Brown said.
Brown thinks student athletes have doubts about attaining certain positions that are predominantly filled by white coaches.
Syracuse’s Dino Babers is the only African American head coach in the ACC, a 14-team league. According to the Associated Press, there are 13 African-American head coaches at FBS schools.
“It is really important for us to have African Americans in leadership roles whether it is a coordinator, head coaches, GMs, whatever the case maybe, it must be that,” Brown said. “The things that are going on right now, I think we will see a little bit more of that. Some many guys are deserving of it, but they don’t get that opportunity.”
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Georgia Tech to Install Artificial Turf at Bobby Dodd Stadium (ramblinwreck.com)
Georgia Tech athletics will install an artificial playing surface at Bobby Dodd Stadium, the home of Georgia Tech football, this summer. The removal of historic Grant Field’s previous natural grass turf began in late May and the installation of a state-of-the-art Legion NXT turf system with Geofill infill, manufactured by Shaw Sports Turf out of nearby Calhoun, Ga., is expected to be completed in late July.
The installation of an artificial surface will allow for Grant Field to be utilized on a far more regular basis than it currently can be. The new surface will expand opportunities for Georgia Tech student-athletes and teams to train and practice inside Bobby Dodd Stadium. Additionally, it will allow Tech athletics to host many more non-football events inside the stadium that are of interest to the Georgia Tech and Atlanta communities, including campus events, concerts and other sporting events. Financially, the installation of an artificial surface at Bobby Dodd Stadium will decrease expenses associated with maintaining a natural field while also providing opportunities for significant revenue boosts associated with hosting external events. No state funds are being used for the project.
Planning for the switch to artificial turf began in earnest last winter, after Georgia Tech announced that Bobby Dodd Stadium would host concerts by BTS and Guns ‘N Roses in May and August, respectively (the concerts were later postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Those concerts would have required Georgia Tech to replace the natural grass surface less than a month before the Yellow Jackets’ Sept. 3 football season opener versus Clemson.
“I’d like to thank our long-time partners at Shaw for working with us to make this project a reality,” Georgia Tech director of athletics Todd Stansbury said. “Georgia Tech and Shaw have a long history of collaborating on various projects and we’re excited and grateful to work with them once again.
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College Football News Preview 2020: Virginia Cavaliers (CFN; Fiutak)
Virginia is going to be one of the most interesting calls in college football – how much did Bryce Perkins have to do with the success, how much was the run to the ACC Championship appearance a little bit of good fortune, and how much was was because there was no Clemson on the slate until the title game, and how much was because the ACC sort of stunk?
All of the above.
Perkins was fantastic, there’s a date at Clemson this time around, and the ACC overall should be far better.
However, the skill parts will be okay – even if there’s a step back in overall production – and the O line is least loaded with veterans. The defense and special teams will be among the ACC’s best – at least, outside of Clemson – and Bronco Mendenhall and the coaching will be top drawer.
Even with all of the positives …
SET THE VIRGINIA CAVALIERS REGULAR SEASON WIN TOTAL AT … 7
Bet at BetMGM Win Total Line: 6.5
It’s a very good team, there’s no Notre Dame to face this time around, and most of the tough ACC games are at home. However, consider the dates against Georgia and Clemson as losses – unless there’s a big performance and upset – and figure at least one defeat out of the four home games against North Carolina, Miami, Louisville, and Pitt.
The road was Virginia’s issue – all five losses came away from Charlottesville – and don’t consider dates at Georgia Tech or Duke to be sure things.
Getting to seven wins and bowl eligibility won’t be a problem, and then the regular season closes out at Virginia Tech.
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ACCN CFB Replays, 6/10-11 (RX; HM)
ACCN CFB Replays, 6/10-11
More classic ACC football games on the ACC Network...
...starting tonight at midnight:
| Wednesday, 6/10/2020 | |
| 12:00 AM (2 hrs) | 2011 Classic's NCAA Football Game |
| Auburn at Clemson | Memorial Stadium, Clemson, SC |
| No. 21 Auburn's luck ended along with its 17-game winning streak as Tajh Boyd threw for 386 yards and four touchdowns in Clemson's victory over the defending national champions. | |
| 6:00 AM (2 hrs) | 1998 Classic's NCAA Football Game |
| Virginia Tech at Syracuse | Carrier Dome, Syracuse, NY |
| Donovan McNabb threw a 13-yard touchdown pass to Stephen Brominski on the final play of the game to lift Syracuse to a thrilling 28-26 victory over 16th-ranked Virginia Tech. | |
| Noon | CFB: Auburn at Clemson (2011) |
| 6 p.m. | CFB: Virginia Tech at Syracuse (1998) |
| 10:00 PM (2 hrs) | 1997 Classic's NCAA Football Game |
| Georgia Tech at Virginia | Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, VA |
| Anthony Southern ran 1 yard for a touchdown with 1:16 to play Saturday, capping a 75-yard, 15-play drive that gave Virginia a 35-31 victory against Georgia Tech. |
Links, news and rumors - 6/10/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 6/10/20
3.5 ACC teams in the initial 247Sports Top 25:
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ACC Fanbases Ranked (RX; HM)
Any article that has the BC fanbase ranked ahead of the Syracuse fanbase in anything except the consumption of wine and cheese is garbage. Has no one ever been to a game at BC? Yes, that is why we see things like this in print...
ACC Fanbases Ranked
From SaturdayBlitz's "College Football’s Top 50 Fanbases" - here are the ACC-related rankings:
49. Syracuse
The good: The Dino Babers era has brought new life to the Orange. From ACC bottom dwellers to legitimate contenders, optimism is peaking at Syracuse.
The bad: The Cuse are far from a blue blood program and have missed more bowl games over the past decade than they’ve made.
The bottom line: Formerly of the Big East, the Orange have made their presence felt on the national stage in recent years. Their zealous fan base goes beyond the basketball court, packing the Carrier Dome and turning it into a loud house that gave Clemson fits.
With no clear runner up to Clemson in the ACC, the Cuse are looking to cement themselves as a college football power — the fans are backing them every step of the way. It’s a tough ask, but there won’t be a lack of passion. They’ve gathered a notable amount of national recognition for their efforts.
45. Boston College
The good: Boston College has rich tradition, claiming a spot among the games most storied programs.
The bad: The days of Boston College being a national title contender are long gone. The transition from the Big East to the ACC has taken the program down a notch or two on the national stage. With Steve Addazio gone, they’re back to square one.
The bottom line: No one can take away BC’s rich history. What the Eagles were able to accomplish from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s has been forever written into college football history. That’s the program for this program, though, that history has come and gone. In the new world, Boston College is stuck in the midst of a handful of ACC program with similar storylines and hasn’t done much to distinguish themselves from the rest.
Being geographically offset from the heart of the sport, BC fans deserve recognition for their stalwart committed to the program. As success has come and gone, this fanbase has stuck it out, ready to celebrate when those high points come around.
44. North Carolina
The good: The pageantry and historicity of the Tarheels rival their nearby SEC counterparts. North Carolina has a rich college football past with a high point under Mack Brown, now back in Chapel Hill.
The bad: Save an 11-3 season under Larry Fedora, North Carolina has lagged behind the ACC for much of its tenure and fan support has come and gone along the way.
The bottom line: Unlike the aforementioned Kentucky Wildcats, North Carolina has shown they have the capacity to support multiple branches of athletics at the same time. While Tobacco Road will always be known for its basketball prowess, the Tarheels are proof that those schools can flex their football moxie when times are good.
In many ways, UNC is at the geographic splitting point of the South with football interest dwindling further north with only a handful of exceptions. The Tarheel faithful have kept their school’s football program reasonably well supported.
43. Pittsburgh
The good: Starting from the early days with Pop Warner, Pitt lays claim to nine national titles. The Panthers boast an All-Star list of alumni including Dan Marino, Tony Dorsett and Mike Ditka, among others.
The bad: All but one of their national titles came before WWII. The current iteration of the Pitt Football Program has had occasional bright spots, but have had just one 10-win season since 1981.
The bottom line: Pitt has played their home games at Heinz Field since 2001. Pro stadiums have their fair share of glam but aren’t conducive toward the sort of fervent atmosphere which has become ubiquitous with the highest levels of college football.
The stadium switch mirrors a shift in the perception of the Pitt program on a national level. They’ve fallen behind in the arms race between the sports’ modern powers. For the most part, fans understand the current state of affairs and share a cautious uncertainty about the direction the program is heading today.
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https://accsports.com/acc-news/3-star-c-bryson-estes-commits-to-fsu-football/ (accsports.com; Geisinger)
Florida State football has been in the headlines for all of the wrong reasons recently, although that paled in comparison to what’s gone on at Clemson. On Tuesday, however, Florida State hit some good news: 3-star center Bryson Estes committed.
Estes ranks as the No. 16 center in the 2021 class, per 247 Sports. The composite rankings slot Estes as a top 550 prospect in the class, too.
Committed #GoNoles #fsu @ELCAFootball @Coach_Norvell @CoachAAtkins @ChadSimmons_ @KennyDillingham @AmourManrey75
— Bryson Estes (@Brysonestes77) June 9, 2020
After announcing his top five schools in late May, the McDonough, Georgia native picked Florida State over Penn State, Arizona State, Nebraska and Missouri. Florida State’s offensive line coach Alex Atkins led the recruitment.
Florida State’s 2021 class, which sits at No. 18 in 247’s class rankings, is up to 12 commits, now. Positionally, Estes is the second center in the class; he joins fellow 3-star Jake Slaughter in that distinction. Estes is the first player in the class from the state of Georgia.
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Clemson football schedule 2020: Predicting every Clemson Tigers game (fansided.com; Buhler)
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Clemson football should make the College Football Playoff again in 2020.
The Clemson football schedule sets up nicely for Dabo Swinney, Trevor Lawrence and the Clemson Tigers to make another College Football Playoff.
The Clemson Tigers have emerged in the last five years as one of two concurrent dynasties in college football, if not the preeminent dynasty in the sport currently. Clemson has won the ACC each of the last five years, reaching the College Football Playoff in all five seasons. The Tigers have played in four of the last five national championships, winning a pair of titles in the process.
Once again, Clemson will be among the heavy favorites to not only make the playoff, but to win the whole thing. Frankly, anything short of a national championship game appearance would yield massive disappointment in the eyes of the Clemson Family. Fortunately, Clemson rarely loses games these days, and 2020 should be no different.
So what we’re going to do today is look at the Tigers’ 2020 season schedule and predict how they will fare. Will Clemson go undefeated this regular season, en route to another ACC Championship game appearance and a College Football Playoff berth? If the Tigers do slip up at some point, where is that loss coming on the schedule and will Clemson be able to overcome said defeat.
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Oct. 24: Syracuse Orange
PREDICTION
SYRACUSE ORANGE 20
CLEMSON TIGERS 30
En route to 8-0 on the year, Clemson will get pushed a little more than expected by the Syracuse Orange. This is because the juggernaut Tigers clearly overlook its divisional foe with a bye week on the horizon the following week. Clemson will shockingly trail at one point in the game. However, late-game heroics by the offense yields another double-digit victory. Clemson, 30-20.
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Rosinski and Yarbro – Bill Bender – Where the ACC stands right now – 730 The Game ESPN Charlotte (espncharlotte.net; podcast; Rosinski & Yarbo)
From SportingNews, Bill Bender joins the show to talk about: Dabo’s video he posted last night and what it can mean for Clemson, where he thinks the ACC stands right now, if there’s a chance we see football a little earlier than usual, and much more!
Jamie Newman's next step begins with Georgia football voluntary workouts underway (onlineathens.com; Weiszer)
Jamie Newman didn’t get to make his much anticipated Sanford Stadium debut in April.
The Wake Forest graduate transfer quarterback joined the program in January, but after a couple of months on campus Newman and his new teammates were left to scramble for other options after spring practices including the G-Day game were canceled.
They had to find different ways to stay in shape and keep their football skills sharp when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the campus in mid-March.
Newman was still seen, showing up in a playful TikTok video to Drake’s Toosie Slide. He chucked a pass over a pool deck, banking it into a basketball hoop.
This week Newman and the Bulldogs are taking the first steps back towards the new season by returning to the UGA facilities for voluntary workouts.
That precedes the start of team activities with the coaching staff, likely next month. For a newcomer like Newman at a pivotal position, it can’t get here soon enough.
“I know Jamie understands that he’s playing at a higher level,” said Anthony Timmons who coached Newman at Graham High School. “He’s playing against more NFL caliber players for the opposition. ...This is going to be a challenge for him, but at the same time Jamie always rises to the occasion of challenges.”
Timmons described Newman while in high school as being able to stay calm under pressure and doesn’t think that will change going from Wake Forest to a Georgia team that is now a perennial playoff contender.
“I think he’ll be even more calm,” Timmons said. “Being this is his fifth-year in college, he’s kind of that seasoned veteran. He’s been in some hostile environments; he’s played in some hostile games.”
Newman was able to stay connected to Georgia coaches and his teammates during the up to eight hours of Zoom sessions allowed for meeting time that included football film study and work on the playbook.
“He’s done a good job of staying focused and being on top of things,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart told ESPN’s Laura Rutledge in April.
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Morgan State Football HC Tyrone Wheatley On How His Players Can Create Societal Change - PressBoxOnline.com (pressboxonline.com; Jackson)
Morgan State head football coach Tyrone Wheatley joined Glenn Clark Radio June 5 to talk about the conversations he’s had with his team following the death of George Floyd, who was killed while in the custody of Minneapolis police May 25, how his players can influence change regarding racial inequality and more.
Wheatley is entering his second year as the head coach of the Bears after going 3-9 in 2019. Previously, he was a running backs coach at the college and pro levels, most notably at Syracuse (2010-2012) and Michigan (2015-2016) and with the Buffalo Bills (2013-2014) and Jacksonville Jaguars (2017-2018).
Wheatley was a running back at Michigan from 1991-1994, rushing for 4,178 yards and 47 touchdowns for the Wolverines. He was drafted in the first round of the 1995 NFL Draft by the New York Giants and enjoyed a successful career in the NFL from 1995-2004. He played four years with the Giants and six with the Oakland Raiders, accumulating 4,962 yards and 40 touchdowns on the ground.
This has been edited for clarity and content.
Glenn Clark: It’s quite a time to be the head football coach at Morgan State, I can only imagine for a few different reasons clearly, particularly this week in this midst of this movement in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement really taking over this country and the issue being forced. What have the conversations been like for you with your guys in these moments?
Tyrone Wheatley: I addressed the team, and I told them first and foremost I love them. I told them whatever they’re feeling, it’s OK, and I support them. My only issue was if they took to the streets just be careful, because there’s a sinister evil out there. My narrative was all hands on deck. The day of the marcher is over. Going out and dying for a cause does no good, because you’re dead. You can’t fight from the grave. We need all hands on deck. That follows into that’s the reason why I’m here. This is the reason I’m so hard on you guys.
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Why college football teams won’t drop to FCS, even amid... theathletic.co.uk; Vannini)
Two years in, the final results of The Idaho Experiment are not yet clear.
Football is a sport that brings out a lot of pride. Not just at Alabama or Ohio State, but even at a place like Idaho, where a winning season has been rare in this century. So when Idaho president Chuck Staben decided in 2016 that the Vandals would drop from the Football Bowl Subdivision to the Football Championship Subdivision, opposition was loud.
That’s not to say the opposition was all-consuming or even the majority. Staben maintains that as much as 80 percent of fans who sent an email or a letter favored the move. But those who did oppose the move were unrelenting. They, including players, were especially loud when the Vandals stunned everyone with a 9-4 season in 2016, though they went 4-8 in 2017.
That pushback made an impact. The football program has seen a loss of about 50 percent in ticket revenue and contributions since the move, according to the Idaho Press. Amid the backlash, Staben and the Idaho State Board of Education mutually agreed he would step down as president in 2019. The football subdivision move wasn’t the only factor — his pursuit of the University of New Mexico presidency and sexual harassment and assault allegations in the athletic department also played a role — but the drop to FCS soured some important people.
“It was contributory,” Staben said. “It was the right decision for our university, and sometimes you take criticism for the right decision. I think, in retrospect, we could have done a better job of communicating it. My athletic director (Rob Spear) told me he supported the decision but in fact did not and privately undermined that decision, which was not a positive.”
It’s been four years since Idaho announced the move and two years since the Vandals returned to FCS play. And with the COVID-19 pandemic inflicting financial damage on athletic department budgets, the question is floating around again: Should more FBS schools drop to FCS?
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Heat advisory issued for Syracuse, surrounding areas (PS; Weidner)
Whether tomorrow’s high temperatures set a record or not, the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Syracuse and surrounding areas.
The weather service is calling for high temperatures in the low-to mid-90s but issued an advisory for Cayuga, Onondaga and Oswego counties that runs from noon Wednesday until 7 p.m.
Tomorrow’s forecast shows the hottest part of the day should be around 2 and 3 p.m., when the heat index could reach 98 degrees.
The weather services advises everyone to drink lots of fluids, stay in air-conditioned rooms if possible, stay out of the sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.
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