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Welcome to National Kool-Aid Day!
Enjoy a refreshing glass of Kool-Aid today! National Kool-Aid Day coincides with the first day of Kool-Aid Days each year, which is always celebrated on the second weekend of August in Hastings, Nebraska, the city where Kool-Aid was created. Hastings' Kool-Aid Days began in 1998, the same year that Kool-Aid was named Nebraska's official state drink.
Edward Perkins lived in Hastings and spent his time experimenting with making products in his mother's kitchen and selling them by mail-order. He created the Perkins Products Company in 1920, and shortly thereafter created Fruit Smack, a liquid concentrate used to make a flavored drink by mixing it with sugar and water. The four-ounce bottles were expensive to ship and sometimes broke in transit. To reduce costs, Perkins made a powdered form in 1927, being inspired by Jello-O. It was sold in packets and was available in six flavors: cherry, grape, lemon-lime, orange, raspberry, and strawberry. The name was first changed to "Kool Ade," production was moved to Chicago in 1931, and Perkins trademarked the name Kool-Aid in 1934.
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Camp Notes: Key defenders talk COVID-19 concerns, 3-3-5 defense (DO; Emerman)
The media won’t have access to Syracuse’s training camp practices this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, the football team is organizing regular Zoom interviews with head coach Dino Babers and select players while also providing film from the Ensley Athletic Center. With “Camp Notes,” The Daily Orange’s beat reporters bring the latest news, observations and analysis as the Orange gear up for an unprecedented 2020 season. Follow along here and on Twitter.tl
As of now, Syracuse is one of 77 college football teams set to play this fall. The Orange is also one of 77 teams with NFL hopefuls vying to impress pro scouts and with seniors who have one last chance at competitive football.
“I feel like it’s a blessing for sure, especially for me as a fifth year,” redshirt DL Josh Black told reporters. “I need this extra year for film, for scouting purposes. My ultimate goal is to play in the NFL. This extra year will be huge for me.”
The 2020 fall football season is still far from guaranteed — an NCAA chief medical advisor likened the handling of fall sports to the Titanic — but SU’s season opener in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is about one month away. Black and junior defensive back Trill Williams largely struck a cautiously optimistic tone while addressing the media via Zoom on Thursday, reiterating that they’re controlling what they can and taking everything one day at a time.
“As a whole team, we just want to be safe,” Williams said. “That’s the main goal, is to keep us safe and go out there and play and know that we’re going to be alright.”
Williams, who started last season at nickelback, said he believes he should be “in the conversation” for the best defensive backs in the Atlantic Coast Conference and in the nation. His strip-and-score in overtime against Wake Forest put a bow on the 2019 season, though he said he doesn’t dwell on the past.
And nor should he. After 2018’s Camping World Bowl victory, the Orange went 5-7 after an offseason filled with media hype. “We let that 10-3 season get to our head,” tight end and defensive lineman Chris Elmore said Aug. 11. The 2019 season was “really disappointing,” Williams said, and Elmore added that the team is more humble and working harder this year.
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Syracuse, Pitt skip practices over virus concerns (ESPN; Hale)
For the third time in little more than a week, Syracuse football players opted not to practice because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
Syracuse.com reported that players want the school to perform more routine testing during fall camp. A Syracuse spokesman confirmed the team did not hold its scheduled practice Thursday.
Orange players also sat out the first two days of fall camp last week amid worries about testing and safety protocols. Coach Dino Babers said he met with players rather than practice and addressed the bulk of their concerns, which were largely tied to safety procedures at opposing schools.
Babers said repeatedly that Syracuse's rate of positive tests were among the best in the country, though as a private institution, the school does not release its testing data.
Babers also said Syracuse is testing biweekly during camp. Syracuse athletic director John Wildhack released a statement last week saying that, at the players' request, the team would be tested twice weekly during the season.
The concerns from Syracuse players were echoed at fellow ACC school Florida State on Thursday as well, with several of the team's wide receivers taking to social media to express frustration about a lack of transparency regarding testing.
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Syracuse coach Dino Babers says his team will prepare to play until officials make a final decision.
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Syracuse football sits out 3rd day of training camp over testing concerns (DO; Hillman)
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Syracuse football players chose not to practice for the third time during their first week of training camp, CNYCentral reported.
The players want more frequent COVID-19 testing during the preseason and won’t practice until the most recent test results are returned, according to Syracuse.com. Currently, the Orange are tested every other week.
SU chose to sit out the first two days of practice, on Aug. 6 and Aug. 7, citing concerns with other Atlantic Coast Conference schools’ policies for protecting against COVID-19. The team instead held meetings with head coach Dino Babers and Director of Athletics John Wildhack.
The most recent decision comes a few hours after an ESPN report outlined how Florida State players are upset with their administration, claiming that they had been lied to about promises for weekly testing.
Black said he had briefly seen the news on Twitter and that it “brings yourself to ask a couple questions.” But he’s content with SU’s testing policies and felt safer on campus than at home in Illinois. Syracuse administered 1,344 COVID-19 tests between Aug. 2 and Tuesday, with all 400 tests among athletes and athletic staff coming back negative.
“If they were basing a national championship, Final Four off of COVID testing and who had the lowest number, I really believe we’d be in the Final Four,” Babers said Aug. 10.
ACC presidents meet, still planning for fall football season (PS; $; Bailey)
The Atlantic Coast Conference is still planning to play football this fall after the league’s presidents held a meeting Thursday afternoon.
The one-hour meeting resulted in no major announcements. The league continues to seek medical advice, according to multiple national reports, including one by Yahoo! Sports.
The ACC, which includes Syracuse, remains one of three Power-Five conferences that intend to play in September.
That does not come as a huge surprise. The ACC signaled earlier in the week it would stay the course after the Big Ten and Pac-12 axed their fall seasons because there are too many unknown health risks at play during the coronavirus pandemic.
Incredibly, the presidents’ meeting came on a day three ACC schools confronted separate Covid-19-related issues that underscore the landscape the campus leaders must navigate.
Pitt canceled its Thursday practice after multiple players showed Covid-19 symptoms.
Syracuse players sat out practice for a third time in the last eight days because they wanted more frequent, in-house testing.
And a few Florida State players criticized their school’s lack of transparency in coronavirus testing.
The ACC presidents’ reluctance to pull the plug comes two days after Duke’s Dr. Cameron Wolfe, head of the ACC’s medical advisory group, told The Daily he believes college football can be played during the coronavirus pandemic.
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ACC Stays the Course on Football, Even as NCAA Cancels Fall Championships (SI; Friedlander)
A meeting of the ACC's presidents came and went quietly Thursday with no major announcements, meaning that the league still plans on playing its football schedule as planned.
According to a source close to the situation, the meeting lasted about an hour. Among the subjects discussed were the findings of the league's Medical Advisory Board.
Even as the ACC remained on course to play an 11-game season beginning on Sept 12, there were ominous signs at three different conference schools.
Pittsburgh canceled its practice Thursday after multiple displayed COVID-19 symptoms. Syracuse also didn't practice after players expressed their desire for more routine testing to be performed.
At at Florida State, several players took to social media to criticize the Seminoles' lack of transparency in coronavirus testing.
While all that was going on, the NCAA -- which doesn't have any jurisdiction over FBS football -- formally canceled all other fall championships, effectively wiping out soccer, volleyball and cross country seasons, as well as FCS football.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear hopes ACC, SEC are open to moving football to the spring (C-J; Robinson)
As discussions about the future of college football, and the rest of fall sports, continue for the ACC and SEC presidents, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear chimed in.
The Big Ten and the Pac-12 are the only Power Five conferences to postpone their fall seasons, pushing football season the a potential spring start. The Pac-12 even canceled the start of winter sports until 2021.
Beshear called that a "gutsy decision."
"While we are still seeing all the data and while universities have significantly more resources than our high schools or middle schools, it sends a pretty powerful statement that the Big Ten doesn't believe that they can keep their, their athletes, safe enough to go forward," Beshear, speaking at his Thursday COVID-19 briefing said. "And when you look at the dollars involved, you know that's a pretty gutsy decision based on how people are going to react."
While the Big Ten and Pac-12 have made decisions to postpone the season, the ACC, Big 12 and SEC have not. Those three Power Five conferences have decided to go forward with college football season, for now. Louisville, which is in the ACC, finished its eighth day of fall camp on Thursday. Kentucky, which plays in the SEC, is scheduled to begin fall camp on Aug. 17, the same day the fall semester begins.
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Virginia football team looking for a new season-opening opponent after VMI postpones fall sports (dailyprogress.com; Conlin)
The 2020 Virginia football season was originally scheduled to open in Atlanta with a showdown against Georgia on Labor Day.
COVID-19 caused the ACC to alter its schedule, and a revised schedule revealed that VMI would visit Charlottesville on Sept. 11 to open the Cavaliers’ schedule.
On Thursday, VMI announced it would follow the Southern Conference’s decision to postpone fall sports, leaving Virginia without a season-opening opponent.
The Cavaliers’ official football Twitter account announced the program would seek a schedule replacement for the Friday night season opener. Finding a replacement presents a challenge, given the volume of programs to postpone fall football.
Given the ACC’s revised COVID-19 rules, nonconference games must be played in the ACC team’s home state. The game with VMI was scheduled to take place in Charlottesville.
With many FCS programs – especially local FCS programs – officially ruled out of competing this fall it likely leaves the Cavaliers looking for an FBS replacement. Unfortunately for the Cavaliers, multiple Power 5 leagues, including the Big Ten and Pac-12, won’t play this fall due to COVID-19.
The group of potential replacement opponents is shrinking daily.
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SU Top 100: #14 Art Monk – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Amendolara)
He is one of the most decorated wide receivers in history. He has three Super Bowl rings. He’s a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He made the NFL’s All-Decade Team of the 1980s. He’s in his franchise’s ring of honor. He was the first ever pass catcher to notch 900 receptions.
All of that is Art Monk’s professional career, and we’re not even counting it toward his ranking on this list. Just Monk’s collegiate career makes him a top 15 Syracuse athlete all-time. How much of a legacy did he leave behind? He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as well in 2012. He is one of the greatest ever to do it.
Monk’s versatility was incredible. How many players compete two seasons as a tailback and two at wide receiver? He was a first-team All-America, and led SU in receiving from 1977-1979. Even after offenses changed and schools threw the ball more in a month than they used to in an entire season, Monk still ranks in the top-ten on several school career record lists, including: career receptions, all-time receiving yards and receiving yards per game.
His best season was 41 catches in 1977. In the last decade SU has had 8 players who caught 60+ passes. Ervin Phillips more than doubled Monk’s career catches. But Monk was a star when he did his damage in the dark ages of the passing game, getting drafted in the first round by Washington. With 1,644 career receiving yards in 35 games, Monk set a school record with a 47-receiving yards per game average. He also recorded one of the greatest games by a receiver in Syracuse history against Navy, catching 14 passes for 188 yards and two touchdowns.
How different was the game back then? “It was very different,” Monk told Syracuse.com when he was inducted in ’12. “We ran the ball, and we had a quarterback (Bill Hurley) who liked to run the ball. Even times when we were supposed to pass he would run.”
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CAA transfers hope ACC gives them the chance to play football this fall (richmond.com; Barber)
Just a month out from a possible college football season, Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall knew there were still areas his roster needed help at. When the Colonial Athletic Association voted in mid-July to call off its football season, FBS coaches like Mendenhall saw an opportunity.
The Athletic Coast Conference, which UVA plays in, is still hoping to kick off its 2020 season this fall. Some players from the CAA who want to play have found their way into the transfer portal, especially veterans who have graduated and can play immediately. And a handful have popped up on ACC rosters, including at UVA and Virginia Tech.
“It’s probably the most NFL-like thing that I’ve ever been through as a college coach,” said Mendenhall. “Almost, you know, like free agency and waivers.”
The Cavaliers have added three graduate transfer from the FCS league this month — former JMU defensive back D’Angelo Amos and defensive tackle Adeeb Atariwa and former Towson running back Shane Simpson.
Amos, a Richmond native, was a first-team all-CAA selection at both safety and punt returner, Atirawa ranked third on the Dukes with 13½ tackles for loss and Simpson was an FCS All-American in 2018 but missed most of last season with an injury.
The Hokies picked up former Villanova wide receiver Changa Hodge, a second-team all-CAA pick who had the second-most touchdown receptions in the league last season.
For Mendenhall, a few weeks of having his players back on campus helped crystallize in his mind areas where the roster needed help. And since the inception of the transfer portal, Mendenhall and his staff have made awareness of available players an important piece of their recruiting model.
“All just amazing young men, academically motivated, really good players with unique stories that also fit a need that I’ve seen now within our program,” he said of the additions.
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ACC Legends: Charlie Ward - Sat 8/15 (RX; HM)
ACC Legends: Charlie Ward - Sat 8/15
From ESPN Press Release: ACC Legends: Charlie Ward Begins at 11:30 am ET Saturday, Aug. 15
ACC Network (ACCN), the 24/7 national platform dedicated to ACC sports, will celebrate two-sport phenom Charlie Ward’s illustrious football and basketball career with a five-game marathon from his collegiate years at Florida State on Saturday, Aug. 15.
| Date | Saturday, August 15 | on ACCN |
| Time (ET) | Game | Original Air Date |
| 11:30 am | The Legend of Charlie Ward | New |
| Noon | CFB: Florida State at Georgia Tech | Oct. 7, 1992 |
| 2 pm | CBB: Duke at Florida State | Jan. 24, 1993 |
| 4 pm | CFB: Miami at Florida State | Oct. 9, 1993 |
| 6 pm | CFB: Florida State at Florida | Nov. 27, 1993 |
| 8 pm | CBB: Florida State at Georgia Tech | Jan. 29, 1994 |
Best Medical Schools in the ACC (RX; HM)
Best Medical Schools in the ACC
When you try to play football during a pandemic, you better have some good medical advisors, and the ACC has some of the best in the country at its disposal. From "The 15 best medical schools in the US, according to US News & World Report" (CNBC), two ACC schools stand out...
13. Duke University School of Medicine (tie)
Overall score: 66
Peer assessment score: 4.5
Recruiter assessment score: 4.3
Median undergraduate GPA: 3.83
Median MCAT score: 518
Acceptance rate: 3.20 percent
NIH research grants (in millions): $412.50
NIH research grants per faculty member (in thousands): $277.20
Faculty-to-student ratio: 3
Tuition and fees: $98,810
Total medical school enrollment: 503
13. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (tie)
Overall score: 66
Peer assessment score: 4.2
Recruiter assessment score: 4.3
Median undergraduate GPA: 3.81
Median MCAT score: 517
Acceptance rate: 5.30 percent
NIH research grants (in millions): $528.80
NIH research grants per faculty member (in thousands): $227.30
Faculty-to-student ratio: 4
Tuition and fees: $59,078
Total medical school enrollment: 579
The remaining top Medical Schools:
13. Yale School of Medicine (tie)
12. University of Washington School of Medicine
9. Cornell University | Weill Cornell Medical College (tie)
9. Mayo Clinic School of Medicine (tie)
9. New York University | Langone School of Medicine (tie)
8. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
6. Columbia University | Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (tie)
6. University of California, Los Angeles | David Geffen School of Medicine (tie)
5. University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
3. Stanford Medical School (tie)
3. University of Pennsylvania | Perelman School of Medicine(tie)
2. Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1. Harvard Medical School
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If the BIG 12, ACC & SEC give this a go, I can see the ACC having the most trouble. NY & MASS have pretty much required quarantining of all states that BC & Syracuse would be playing in. I'm not sure how the ACC gets around that. Any thoughts?
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