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Welcome to National Skyscraper Day!
Ingenious feats of engineering and architectural dexterity are on display in tall, multistoried buildings called skyscrapers, which we celebrate today. A confluence of factors led to the literal rise of these structures. For one, with increased urban commerce, as well as an increase in population density in urban areas, there was a need for them. Originally they were used for commercial purposes, but they are now often used as residential dwellings as well.
Another factor leading to their proliferation was the invention of the passenger elevator. The first one was installed in the Haughwout Department Store in New York City in 1857, and the first tall office building with one was the Equitable Life Building in New York City in 1870. A third factor, which ultimately made it possible for skyscrapers to be built, was the invention of the Bessemer process in the 1860s. This process paved the way for the mass production of steel, an alloy that is stronger and lighter than iron; steel was used to construct buildings and allowed them to be much taller.
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Axe: Syracuse football’s expectations for 2020 have nowhere to go but up (PS; $; Axe)
Syracuse football is set to take the field against the North Carolina Tar Heels in 10 days, which makes the arrival of the season feel, as my 13-year-old daughter would say, “for reals.”
Now that we know SU football will play (someone rub a rabbit’s foot just in case) one has to wonder what to expect from Dino Babers’ Orange in 2020.
You know what your expectation is. I know what my expectation is. What do the college football “experts” think of the Orange?
Let’s just say the “no one believes in us” theory will be popular in the SU locker room.
The Athletic picked Syracuse to finish 15 out of 15, dead last, in the ACC.
Phil Steele, the college football preview magazine guru, has Syracuse at the bottom of the ACC.
USA Today? 14 out of 15.
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Syracuse football has more analyst predictions for 2021 WR Umari Hatcher (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse football has an excellent chance to pick up 2021 three-star wide receiver Umari Hatcher, who will announce Sept. 4.
Syracuse football target Umari Hatcher plans to reveal his collegiate destination on Friday, Sept. 4, and the Orange appears in a strong position to win the recruiting bout for the 2021 three-star wide receiver.
The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Hatcher, a rising senior at Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va., recently listed a half-dozen suitors on his Twitter page, and they are the ‘Cuse, Indiana, Michigan State, Maryland, East Carolina and Liberty, with the Flames representing the Syracuse football non-conference foe in the Orange’s 2020 schedule.
We reported not too long ago that Brian Dohn, a national analyst with 247Sports who has an exquisite success rate in his Crystal Ball projections for that recruiting service, had put in a prediction for the ‘Cuse as it relates to Hatcher.
Now, two additional experts have joined Dohn with an identical prognostication. On Sept. 1, 247Sports’ Clint Brewster and Evan Watkins also projected Hatcher to Syracuse football. All three are attaching high confidence levels to their forecasts.
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Orange Watch: Part III of our 2020 Syracuse football predictions - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: So far this week, we’ve predicted the first seven games of the 2020 Syracuse football season in parts I and II. On Tuesday, we left the Orange fresh off a win against Wake Forest to improve their record to 4-3. Can Syracuse end the season with a winning record? We five our final answers below.
Boston College-November 7
Last Time: The Syracuse coaching staff had nightmares watching this game tape, as the defense gave up a school-record 496 rushing yards to the Eagles, who constantly ran through giant holes in a worn out ‘Cuse defense, scoring 34 of their 58 points in the second quarter. The meager SU offense scored 17 first quarter points, but only accounted for 10 points the rest of the way.
This Time: There’s a new regime in Chestnut Hill with Jeff Haley arriving from Ohio State succeeding Steve Addazio. Haley is a defensive-minded coach and a listener, encouraging the team to skip practice Aug. 27 to instead discuss and educate each other about the ongoing story of racial injustice in the country. On the field in the Dome, defense rules as well, with Andre Szmyt’s foot again the difference maker. Syracuse 20-Boston College 17 (5-3, 4-3).
At Louisville-November 20
Last Time: After Tommy Devito left last season’s game with an unspecified injury in the fourth quarter, backup Clayton Welch valiantly tried to lead the ‘Cuse back from a 49-34 deficit to no avail. Turnovers and penalties plagued the offense late. Sophomore quarterback Micale Cunningham dazzled for Louisville all day, passing for five scores as the Cards rang up 56-points.
This Time: It’s Friday Night Lights for SU in front of a national TV audience, but the Orange are going to have to play better than last season’s debacle at Cardinal Stadium. SU will succeed on that front, trailing by just five points in the fourth quarter, but UL’s Cunningham will again be tough late denying another Orange comeback bid in front of a delirious home crowd. Louisville 34 Syracuse 22 (5-4, 4-4).
North Carolina State-November 28
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Pieces come together for football in lead up to season opener | The NewsHouse (thenewshouse.com; Hertel)
As the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences come under scrutiny for punting on the football season rather than going for a fourth-down conversion, Syracuse football is a week-and-a-half away from the first snap of this unconventional season.
“It’s a lot going on, but it’s just focusing on the little things, like what’s going to help you get better the next day,” said linebacker Mikel Jones. “There’s a lot of stuff going around but we just have to focus on what we can do and get better at.”
Despite challenges brought on by the pandemic, senior tight end Aaron Hackett also said he’s ready to take on North Carolina at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill a week from Saturday on Sept. 12.
“I know if the fields aligned and we’re about the snap the ball, I’m going out and I’m playing football,” Hackett said Tuesday. “If there’s going to be football, I’m going to be out there.”
Even with the schedule starting as planned, Hackett isn’t naïve about the fact that this “crazy” season will be different than any season before. No fans will be allowed in the stadium when SU plays UNC or the following Saturday on the road against Pittsburgh.
“The atmosphere is definitely going to be different, just not having as many people out there,” Hackett said. “But I also think it helps from a football aspect; it really just becomes a skills game. There’s not as much momentum, there’s not a home-field advantage.”
Syracuse’s first home game in the renovated Carrier Dome is scheduled for Sept. 26. Policies about fan attendance have not yet been announced.
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Class of 2022 recruits react to initial contact from Syracuse (247sports.com; McAllister)
September 1st marked the first day college coaches could reach out directly to class of 2022 prospects. That includes texts, phone calls, social media direct messages, etc. Many 2022 Syracuse targets were contacted by the Orange, and we have their social media reactions below.
OLB Daterius Lee
#COMMIT2CUSE
— ????????????????(DT)?????? ???? (@Daterius11) September 1, 2020
WR Jayden Gibson
syracuse showing love @RyanBartow
— Jayden Gibson (@TheJaydenGibson) September 1, 2020
RB/DB Marquise Allsup
Orange is my favorite color ????
Syracuse University! ???? @CuseFootball #OITNF #CUSE #COMMIT2CU2E
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— Marquise Allsup (@21Allsup) September 1, 2020
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Excited for an Orange opportunity | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise (adirondeckdailyenterprise.com; Reuter)
Attending Syracuse University as a 17-year-old freshman and as a member of the Orange football team has been quite an eye-opener for Patrick Alberga.
And after being on campus for a little more than a month, Alberga says so far, he’s enjoyed every minute of his new life as a college student-athlete. The 2020 Saranac Lake High School graduate began preseason practices on Aug. 2 and started classes two weeks ago.
Last spring, Alberga was accepted at Syracuse as a preferred walk-on for the football team, which guarantees him a spot on the roster. In an interview with the Enterprise Sunday, Alberga said he plans to stay with the football program for the next four years while pursing a degree in civil engineering.
” I want to go as far in football as I can. If I don’t go past college, I’ll be leaving here with a degree,” he said.
As a high school senior on the gridiron a year ago, Alberga was one of the biggest and most likely the strongest player in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference. Now he is making the switch from dominating the competition to being the youngest member of Syracuse’s Division I squad and the smallest in the group of defensive lineman on the roster. The 6-4, 250-pound Alberga is one of eight defensive ends on the team, which has a roster of 110.
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Georgia Tech Opponent Camp Notes: Syracuse Orange (yellowjackedup.com; Callaghan-Croley)
Here at Yellow Jacked Up, we continue to gather and share some notes regarding Georgia Tech’s opponents this upcoming season. Today, we look at the Yellow Jackets third opponent of the season, the Syracuse Orange.
The countdown to kickoff in the ACC is nearly at single digits and as we continue to look around the Jackets schedule at how opposing teams are fairing in camps this fall, we turn our attention to Syracuse.
Offensive Line is still a major question for Syracuse:
Last year, the Syracuse offensive line was one of the worst offensive lines in the country and despite all that Tommy DeVito still put up good performances and finished the season with over 2,300-yards and 19 touchdowns while throwing just five interceptions on the season. That being said, the offensive line was a focal point of places for improvement this offseason. However, until the Orange get into real game situations, it’s unclear just how well the offensive line will hold up this season.
It’s still uncertain if there will be fans when the Jackets show up at the Carrier Dome
So far we know Syracuse will NOT have fans at either of their first two games against North Carolina and Pittsburgh, both games taking place on the road. That being said, it still has yet to be announced if Syracuse will allow fans into the Carrier Dome this season. Personally, I’m assuming they as they won’t have fans for at least the first game at the Carrier Dome but won’t be shocked if they don’t have fans at all throughout the season.
Backup running back is a question mark heading into the season:
Our Syracuse sister site, Inside the Loud House, discussed that entering this season, the Orange’s game plan at the backup running back position is still unclear. As Neil Adler points out in the article, the statuses of backup running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard are unknown currently which raises plenty of questions with games just around the corner. If Adams and Howard are unavailable this season for Syracuse it seems that redshirt freshman Jawhar Jordan is the likely backup for the Orange.
Audio Vault (espnsyracuse.com; radio; Axe)
Today Brent talks Chaz Owens joining Syracuse Basketball. Then breaks down the SU Football season with Syracuse.com Nate Mink.
Links, news and rumors - 9/3/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 9/3/20
From FBSchedules: 2020 Notre Dame-Wake Forest football game moved to Truist Field
The 2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Wake Forest Demon Deacons football game has been moved to Truist Field, it was announced on Wednesday.
The game, dubbed the Duke’s Mayo Classic, was originally scheduled to be played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The game will now be played on the campus of Wake Forest at Truist Field in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the date remains Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020.
...Due to the current guidance from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Safety, Wake Forest anticipates that fans will not be able to attend the game.
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OT, sort of, from CBS Sports: Georgia quarterback Jamie Newman opts out of 2020 college football season to prepare for 2021 NFL Draft
Jamie Newman, Wake Forest graduate transfer and projected starting quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs, is opting out of the 2020 season. So the Deacons effectively lost nothing, and the Bulldogs gained... nothing. Win-win!
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Links, news and rumors - 9/2/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 9/2/20
TigerNet tweeted an interesting screencap...
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2020 Known National TV Games (so far) (RX; HM)
2020 Known National TV Games (so far)
How much is the ACC benefitting from the lack of Big Ten football competition (and even no SEC for the first two weekends)?
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Preseason predictions, ACC Football 2020: Etienne rushes for history, Coach of the Year candidates and breakout stars - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Geisinger)
It may seem hard to believe, but the 2020 ACC football season will actually get started next week. Over the course of the following 13 weeks, the sport will make history (of some kind) as colleges work to play football amidst a global pandemic.
With a season on the horizon, though, Josh Graham from The Sports Hub Triad (WSJS) joined me to make a few preseason predictions: Player of the Year possibilities, Coach of the Year candidates and what we think the league’s standings will look like in a few months.
Player of the Year
Brian Geisinger: Travis Etienne, Clemson, RB
Let’s pull for history, shall we? During the 2019 season, Etienne became just the seventh player to win ACC Player of the Year twice. Lamar Jackson, Charlie Ward, Steve Fuller, Mike Voight, Don McCauley and Roman Gabriel are the other two-time winners; however, no one in league history has won this award three times. Etienne could be the first.
There’s also the chance that voter fatigue plays a role; if it’s a toss-up between two players — Etienne and someone else — voters could decide to push for a new player to get the award.
It’s just so easy to project Clemson’s team success, which (right or wrong) factors into the equation, and Etienne’s individual brilliance.
As a quick reminder: Etienne returns in 2020 as the Clemson and ACC career leader in rushing touchdowns (56), total touchdowns (60) and points by a non-kicker (372). Etienne will start the 2020 season as the nation’s active leader in each category — along with career rushing yards (4,038). In other words: he’s good at football.
Josh Graham: Travis Etienne, Clemson, RB
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CBS Sports talks ACC and Pitt football (cardiachill.com; Whaley)
The Pitt football season is just around the corner. Recently, CBS Sports’ experts looked at the ACC and the Panthers.
Their staff broke down all sorts of things, including the conference’s more underrated and overrated teams. Ben Kercheval puts Pitt in the underrated camp:
Pittsburgh: The Panthers have been consistently OK under coach Pat Narduzzi. I don’t necessarily expect them to punch too far above their weight in 2020, but they are a catalyst team that could make life difficult for some of the ACC’s top teams. For one, Narduzzi finally has the type of defense on campus that he needs to keep this program competitive with the league’s top dogs. And while not having star defensive lineman Jaylen Twyman, who has opted out, hurts, this is still one of the ACC’s better D-lines. Find a big time playmaker on offense to succeed the departed Maurice Ffrench, and you’ll be cooking with oil.
The staff also made some bold predictions for games. Kercheval, in particular, also likes Pitt to beat Notre Dame this year.
None of CBS’ seven experts, however, were prepared to rank Pitt all that highly within the conference. All of them expect Pitt to finish between No. 6 and No. 8 in the ACC.
Part of that is no doubt on the tougher slate the Panthers received after the conference modified schedules. Part of it is on losing arguably their best player Jaylen Twyman, who has opted to sit out the season. And part of it is because Notre Dame has been added to the mix for a conference title. Add it all up, and the early expectations for a once-promising year have since diminished.
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2020 ACC football preview: NC State in the middle of the pack (technicianonline.com; Tucker)
While the overall college football scene has been subject to change and cancellations across the nation, it seems the ACC is going to try to truck through a season, with kickoff scheduled for Sept. 10. The ACC has pumped out a schedule that includes 10 conference games for each team as well as one nonconference game for each.
The typical Coastal and Atlantic conferences are merged, and Notre Dame is a full-time member of the conference for the season. The two teams that finish with the highest winning percentage will play each other in the ACC championship game, currently scheduled for Dec. 12 or 19. With the landscape of the ACC in place, let’s take a look at where each team stands heading into the season.
Contenders
Time after time, it is usually easy to pick who the one contender from the ACC is each season, but with the unusual circumstances surrounding this season, there is another. Let’s take a look at who the contenders in the ACC are.
Clemson
This one is a no-brainer. The Tigers are coming off yet another championship game appearance and are once again expected to have supreme talent in the ACC. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence and running back Travis Etienne are back and both are in the Heisman conversation.
Notre Dame
The Fighting Irish are probably relieved to have a football home for 2020, but the news comes at the chagrin of other top ACC teams that might not be able to keep up with Notre Dame. Quarterback Ian Book has a chance to boost himself into the conversation of elite college quarterbacks and help his draft stock. Notre Dame now has a regular season game scheduled against Clemson, which could provide major implications for how a potential championship matchup would fare.
Secondary contenders
With so many good teams in the ACC, it’s hard to lump them all in as “contenders” when truly only two teams fit that bill. Here’s a look at some teams that will make noise in 2020, while being a step or two below Clemson and Notre Dame.
North Carolina Tar Heels
Sam Howell aside, the Tar Heels look to be a much more formidable team than recent years under head coach Mack Brown’s leadership. Brown has a ridiculous recruiting class to work with, including five-star cornerback Tony Grimes, as well as many impactful returners.
UNC-Chapel Hill is also returning most of its receivers and backs, including Michael Carter and Javonte Williams, who make for a dynamic backfield, and Dazz Newsome and Dyami Brown, who each recorded over 1,000 receiving yards last season.
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Walton St. outdoor dining extended another month (but there’s at least one critic) (PS; Cazentre)
Walton Street in Armory Square will continue to be closed to traffic and opened to on-street dining on weekends through at least the end of September, city officials said today.
The city is extending the street closing that began in July as a way to boost traffic for restaurants and bars whose business has been disrupted this year by the coronavirus, dining room shutdowns and restrictions on how they can operate after reopening.
Walton Street will once again be closed to traffic from the corner of South Clinton, then west past South Franklin and around the curve along Onondaga Creek to West Fayette Street. The street is closed from 8 a.m. Friday to around 8 a.m. Monday, with restaurants allowed to set up tables along the curb until 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Restaurants taking advantage of the curbside table service are The Limerick Pub, The Blue Tusk and The Hops Spot in the 100 block of Walton between South Clinton and South Franklin, and Pita Dream, Margarita’s Mexican Cantina, Kasai Ramen and Sakana-Ya, all in the 200 block between South Franklin and Onondaga Creek.
All the cross streets remain open to traffic.
The response to the closing has been “overwhelmingly positive,” said Eric Ennis, the city’s director of business development.
“People are telling us there’s a vibrancy in Armory Square on weekends that rivals (the time) before Covid,” Ennis said.
The closing has not only drawn more people to the restaurants, but also to other retail businesses in the area, Ennis said. “People are coming down to eat, then taking a look around at the other things the area has to offer.”
But the closing has at least one vocal critic.
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Welcome to National Skyscraper Day!
Ingenious feats of engineering and architectural dexterity are on display in tall, multistoried buildings called skyscrapers, which we celebrate today. A confluence of factors led to the literal rise of these structures. For one, with increased urban commerce, as well as an increase in population density in urban areas, there was a need for them. Originally they were used for commercial purposes, but they are now often used as residential dwellings as well.
Another factor leading to their proliferation was the invention of the passenger elevator. The first one was installed in the Haughwout Department Store in New York City in 1857, and the first tall office building with one was the Equitable Life Building in New York City in 1870. A third factor, which ultimately made it possible for skyscrapers to be built, was the invention of the Bessemer process in the 1860s. This process paved the way for the mass production of steel, an alloy that is stronger and lighter than iron; steel was used to construct buildings and allowed them to be much taller.
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Axe: Syracuse football’s expectations for 2020 have nowhere to go but up (PS; $; Axe)
Syracuse football is set to take the field against the North Carolina Tar Heels in 10 days, which makes the arrival of the season feel, as my 13-year-old daughter would say, “for reals.”
Now that we know SU football will play (someone rub a rabbit’s foot just in case) one has to wonder what to expect from Dino Babers’ Orange in 2020.
You know what your expectation is. I know what my expectation is. What do the college football “experts” think of the Orange?
Let’s just say the “no one believes in us” theory will be popular in the SU locker room.
The Athletic picked Syracuse to finish 15 out of 15, dead last, in the ACC.
Phil Steele, the college football preview magazine guru, has Syracuse at the bottom of the ACC.
USA Today? 14 out of 15.
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Syracuse football has more analyst predictions for 2021 WR Umari Hatcher (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse football has an excellent chance to pick up 2021 three-star wide receiver Umari Hatcher, who will announce Sept. 4.
Syracuse football target Umari Hatcher plans to reveal his collegiate destination on Friday, Sept. 4, and the Orange appears in a strong position to win the recruiting bout for the 2021 three-star wide receiver.
The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Hatcher, a rising senior at Freedom High School in Woodbridge, Va., recently listed a half-dozen suitors on his Twitter page, and they are the ‘Cuse, Indiana, Michigan State, Maryland, East Carolina and Liberty, with the Flames representing the Syracuse football non-conference foe in the Orange’s 2020 schedule.
We reported not too long ago that Brian Dohn, a national analyst with 247Sports who has an exquisite success rate in his Crystal Ball projections for that recruiting service, had put in a prediction for the ‘Cuse as it relates to Hatcher.
Now, two additional experts have joined Dohn with an identical prognostication. On Sept. 1, 247Sports’ Clint Brewster and Evan Watkins also projected Hatcher to Syracuse football. All three are attaching high confidence levels to their forecasts.
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Orange Watch: Part III of our 2020 Syracuse football predictions - The Juice Online (the juice; Bierman)
Item: So far this week, we’ve predicted the first seven games of the 2020 Syracuse football season in parts I and II. On Tuesday, we left the Orange fresh off a win against Wake Forest to improve their record to 4-3. Can Syracuse end the season with a winning record? We five our final answers below.
Boston College-November 7
Last Time: The Syracuse coaching staff had nightmares watching this game tape, as the defense gave up a school-record 496 rushing yards to the Eagles, who constantly ran through giant holes in a worn out ‘Cuse defense, scoring 34 of their 58 points in the second quarter. The meager SU offense scored 17 first quarter points, but only accounted for 10 points the rest of the way.
This Time: There’s a new regime in Chestnut Hill with Jeff Haley arriving from Ohio State succeeding Steve Addazio. Haley is a defensive-minded coach and a listener, encouraging the team to skip practice Aug. 27 to instead discuss and educate each other about the ongoing story of racial injustice in the country. On the field in the Dome, defense rules as well, with Andre Szmyt’s foot again the difference maker. Syracuse 20-Boston College 17 (5-3, 4-3).
At Louisville-November 20
Last Time: After Tommy Devito left last season’s game with an unspecified injury in the fourth quarter, backup Clayton Welch valiantly tried to lead the ‘Cuse back from a 49-34 deficit to no avail. Turnovers and penalties plagued the offense late. Sophomore quarterback Micale Cunningham dazzled for Louisville all day, passing for five scores as the Cards rang up 56-points.
This Time: It’s Friday Night Lights for SU in front of a national TV audience, but the Orange are going to have to play better than last season’s debacle at Cardinal Stadium. SU will succeed on that front, trailing by just five points in the fourth quarter, but UL’s Cunningham will again be tough late denying another Orange comeback bid in front of a delirious home crowd. Louisville 34 Syracuse 22 (5-4, 4-4).
North Carolina State-November 28
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Pieces come together for football in lead up to season opener | The NewsHouse (thenewshouse.com; Hertel)
As the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences come under scrutiny for punting on the football season rather than going for a fourth-down conversion, Syracuse football is a week-and-a-half away from the first snap of this unconventional season.
“It’s a lot going on, but it’s just focusing on the little things, like what’s going to help you get better the next day,” said linebacker Mikel Jones. “There’s a lot of stuff going around but we just have to focus on what we can do and get better at.”
Despite challenges brought on by the pandemic, senior tight end Aaron Hackett also said he’s ready to take on North Carolina at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill a week from Saturday on Sept. 12.
“I know if the fields aligned and we’re about the snap the ball, I’m going out and I’m playing football,” Hackett said Tuesday. “If there’s going to be football, I’m going to be out there.”
Even with the schedule starting as planned, Hackett isn’t naïve about the fact that this “crazy” season will be different than any season before. No fans will be allowed in the stadium when SU plays UNC or the following Saturday on the road against Pittsburgh.
“The atmosphere is definitely going to be different, just not having as many people out there,” Hackett said. “But I also think it helps from a football aspect; it really just becomes a skills game. There’s not as much momentum, there’s not a home-field advantage.”
Syracuse’s first home game in the renovated Carrier Dome is scheduled for Sept. 26. Policies about fan attendance have not yet been announced.
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Class of 2022 recruits react to initial contact from Syracuse (247sports.com; McAllister)
September 1st marked the first day college coaches could reach out directly to class of 2022 prospects. That includes texts, phone calls, social media direct messages, etc. Many 2022 Syracuse targets were contacted by the Orange, and we have their social media reactions below.
OLB Daterius Lee
#COMMIT2CUSE
— ????????????????(DT)?????? ???? (@Daterius11) September 1, 2020
WR Jayden Gibson
syracuse showing love @RyanBartow
— Jayden Gibson (@TheJaydenGibson) September 1, 2020
RB/DB Marquise Allsup
Orange is my favorite color ????
Syracuse University! ???? @CuseFootball #OITNF #CUSE #COMMIT2CU2E
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— Marquise Allsup (@21Allsup) September 1, 2020
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Excited for an Orange opportunity | News, Sports, Jobs - Adirondack Daily Enterprise (adirondeckdailyenterprise.com; Reuter)
Attending Syracuse University as a 17-year-old freshman and as a member of the Orange football team has been quite an eye-opener for Patrick Alberga.
And after being on campus for a little more than a month, Alberga says so far, he’s enjoyed every minute of his new life as a college student-athlete. The 2020 Saranac Lake High School graduate began preseason practices on Aug. 2 and started classes two weeks ago.
Last spring, Alberga was accepted at Syracuse as a preferred walk-on for the football team, which guarantees him a spot on the roster. In an interview with the Enterprise Sunday, Alberga said he plans to stay with the football program for the next four years while pursing a degree in civil engineering.
” I want to go as far in football as I can. If I don’t go past college, I’ll be leaving here with a degree,” he said.
As a high school senior on the gridiron a year ago, Alberga was one of the biggest and most likely the strongest player in the Champlain Valley Athletic Conference. Now he is making the switch from dominating the competition to being the youngest member of Syracuse’s Division I squad and the smallest in the group of defensive lineman on the roster. The 6-4, 250-pound Alberga is one of eight defensive ends on the team, which has a roster of 110.
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Georgia Tech Opponent Camp Notes: Syracuse Orange (yellowjackedup.com; Callaghan-Croley)
Here at Yellow Jacked Up, we continue to gather and share some notes regarding Georgia Tech’s opponents this upcoming season. Today, we look at the Yellow Jackets third opponent of the season, the Syracuse Orange.
The countdown to kickoff in the ACC is nearly at single digits and as we continue to look around the Jackets schedule at how opposing teams are fairing in camps this fall, we turn our attention to Syracuse.
Offensive Line is still a major question for Syracuse:
Last year, the Syracuse offensive line was one of the worst offensive lines in the country and despite all that Tommy DeVito still put up good performances and finished the season with over 2,300-yards and 19 touchdowns while throwing just five interceptions on the season. That being said, the offensive line was a focal point of places for improvement this offseason. However, until the Orange get into real game situations, it’s unclear just how well the offensive line will hold up this season.
It’s still uncertain if there will be fans when the Jackets show up at the Carrier Dome
So far we know Syracuse will NOT have fans at either of their first two games against North Carolina and Pittsburgh, both games taking place on the road. That being said, it still has yet to be announced if Syracuse will allow fans into the Carrier Dome this season. Personally, I’m assuming they as they won’t have fans for at least the first game at the Carrier Dome but won’t be shocked if they don’t have fans at all throughout the season.
Backup running back is a question mark heading into the season:
Our Syracuse sister site, Inside the Loud House, discussed that entering this season, the Orange’s game plan at the backup running back position is still unclear. As Neil Adler points out in the article, the statuses of backup running backs Abdul Adams and Jarveon Howard are unknown currently which raises plenty of questions with games just around the corner. If Adams and Howard are unavailable this season for Syracuse it seems that redshirt freshman Jawhar Jordan is the likely backup for the Orange.
Audio Vault (espnsyracuse.com; radio; Axe)
Today Brent talks Chaz Owens joining Syracuse Basketball. Then breaks down the SU Football season with Syracuse.com Nate Mink.
Links, news and rumors - 9/3/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 9/3/20
From FBSchedules: 2020 Notre Dame-Wake Forest football game moved to Truist Field
The 2020 Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Wake Forest Demon Deacons football game has been moved to Truist Field, it was announced on Wednesday.
The game, dubbed the Duke’s Mayo Classic, was originally scheduled to be played at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. The game will now be played on the campus of Wake Forest at Truist Field in Winston-Salem, N.C., and the date remains Saturday, Sept. 26, 2020.
...Due to the current guidance from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Safety, Wake Forest anticipates that fans will not be able to attend the game.
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OT, sort of, from CBS Sports: Georgia quarterback Jamie Newman opts out of 2020 college football season to prepare for 2021 NFL Draft
Jamie Newman, Wake Forest graduate transfer and projected starting quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs, is opting out of the 2020 season. So the Deacons effectively lost nothing, and the Bulldogs gained... nothing. Win-win!
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Links, news and rumors - 9/2/20 (RX; HM)
Links, news and rumors - 9/2/20
TigerNet tweeted an interesting screencap...
So the ACC gets two teams into the playoff while the SEC gets only one? The end is near!
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2020 Known National TV Games (so far) (RX; HM)
2020 Known National TV Games (so far)
How much is the ACC benefitting from the lack of Big Ten football competition (and even no SEC for the first two weekends)?
| Week | WkDay | Date | Time | Game | TV | ||
| 2 | THU | 09/10/20 | 8:00 PM | UAB | at | Miami | ACCN |
| SAT | 09/12/20 | 12:00 PM | Syracuse | at | UNC | ACCN | |
| 2:30 PM | Duke | at | Notre Dame | NBC | |||
| 3:30 PM | Georgia Tech | at | Florida State | ABC | |||
| 4:00 PM | Austin Peay | at | Pitt | ACCN | |||
| 7:30 PM | Clemson | at | Wake Forest | ABC | |||
| 8:00 PM | W. Kentucky | at | Louisville | ACCN | |||
| 3 | SAT | 09/19/20 | 12:00 PM | Syracuse | at | Pitt | ACCN |
| 12:00 PM | Boston College | at | Duke | RSN | |||
| 2:30 PM | USF | at | Notre Dame | USA | |||
| 3:30 PM | UCF | at | Georgia Tech | ESPN | |||
| 3:30 PM | Charlotte | at | UNC | RSN | |||
| 3:30 PM or 7:30 PM* | Virginia | at | Virginia Tech | ABC | |||
| Miami | at | Louisville | ABC | ||||
| 4:00 PM | The Citadel | at | Clemson | ACCN | |||
| 8:00 PM | Wake Forest | at | NC State | ACCN | |||
| 6 | FRI | 10/09/20 | 7:00 PM | Louisville | at | Georgia Tech | ESPN |
| 8:00 PM | Campbell | at | Wake Forest | ACCN | |||
| SAT | 10/10/20 | 7:30 PM | Florida State | at | Notre Dame | NBC | |
| 7 | SAT | 10/17/20 | 2:30 PM | Louisville | at | Notre Dame | NBC |
| FRI | 11/06/20 | 7:30 PM | Miami | at | NC State | ESPN | |
| SAT | 11/07/20 | 7:30 PM | Clemson | at | Notre Dame | NBC | |
| FRI | 11/20/20 | 7:30 PM | Syracuse | at | Louisville | ESPN |
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Preseason predictions, ACC Football 2020: Etienne rushes for history, Coach of the Year candidates and breakout stars - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Geisinger)
It may seem hard to believe, but the 2020 ACC football season will actually get started next week. Over the course of the following 13 weeks, the sport will make history (of some kind) as colleges work to play football amidst a global pandemic.
With a season on the horizon, though, Josh Graham from The Sports Hub Triad (WSJS) joined me to make a few preseason predictions: Player of the Year possibilities, Coach of the Year candidates and what we think the league’s standings will look like in a few months.
Player of the Year
Brian Geisinger: Travis Etienne, Clemson, RB
Let’s pull for history, shall we? During the 2019 season, Etienne became just the seventh player to win ACC Player of the Year twice. Lamar Jackson, Charlie Ward, Steve Fuller, Mike Voight, Don McCauley and Roman Gabriel are the other two-time winners; however, no one in league history has won this award three times. Etienne could be the first.
There’s also the chance that voter fatigue plays a role; if it’s a toss-up between two players — Etienne and someone else — voters could decide to push for a new player to get the award.
It’s just so easy to project Clemson’s team success, which (right or wrong) factors into the equation, and Etienne’s individual brilliance.
As a quick reminder: Etienne returns in 2020 as the Clemson and ACC career leader in rushing touchdowns (56), total touchdowns (60) and points by a non-kicker (372). Etienne will start the 2020 season as the nation’s active leader in each category — along with career rushing yards (4,038). In other words: he’s good at football.
Josh Graham: Travis Etienne, Clemson, RB
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CBS Sports talks ACC and Pitt football (cardiachill.com; Whaley)
The Pitt football season is just around the corner. Recently, CBS Sports’ experts looked at the ACC and the Panthers.
Their staff broke down all sorts of things, including the conference’s more underrated and overrated teams. Ben Kercheval puts Pitt in the underrated camp:
Pittsburgh: The Panthers have been consistently OK under coach Pat Narduzzi. I don’t necessarily expect them to punch too far above their weight in 2020, but they are a catalyst team that could make life difficult for some of the ACC’s top teams. For one, Narduzzi finally has the type of defense on campus that he needs to keep this program competitive with the league’s top dogs. And while not having star defensive lineman Jaylen Twyman, who has opted out, hurts, this is still one of the ACC’s better D-lines. Find a big time playmaker on offense to succeed the departed Maurice Ffrench, and you’ll be cooking with oil.
The staff also made some bold predictions for games. Kercheval, in particular, also likes Pitt to beat Notre Dame this year.
None of CBS’ seven experts, however, were prepared to rank Pitt all that highly within the conference. All of them expect Pitt to finish between No. 6 and No. 8 in the ACC.
Part of that is no doubt on the tougher slate the Panthers received after the conference modified schedules. Part of it is on losing arguably their best player Jaylen Twyman, who has opted to sit out the season. And part of it is because Notre Dame has been added to the mix for a conference title. Add it all up, and the early expectations for a once-promising year have since diminished.
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2020 ACC football preview: NC State in the middle of the pack (technicianonline.com; Tucker)
While the overall college football scene has been subject to change and cancellations across the nation, it seems the ACC is going to try to truck through a season, with kickoff scheduled for Sept. 10. The ACC has pumped out a schedule that includes 10 conference games for each team as well as one nonconference game for each.
The typical Coastal and Atlantic conferences are merged, and Notre Dame is a full-time member of the conference for the season. The two teams that finish with the highest winning percentage will play each other in the ACC championship game, currently scheduled for Dec. 12 or 19. With the landscape of the ACC in place, let’s take a look at where each team stands heading into the season.
Contenders
Time after time, it is usually easy to pick who the one contender from the ACC is each season, but with the unusual circumstances surrounding this season, there is another. Let’s take a look at who the contenders in the ACC are.
Clemson
This one is a no-brainer. The Tigers are coming off yet another championship game appearance and are once again expected to have supreme talent in the ACC. Quarterback Trevor Lawrence and running back Travis Etienne are back and both are in the Heisman conversation.
Notre Dame
The Fighting Irish are probably relieved to have a football home for 2020, but the news comes at the chagrin of other top ACC teams that might not be able to keep up with Notre Dame. Quarterback Ian Book has a chance to boost himself into the conversation of elite college quarterbacks and help his draft stock. Notre Dame now has a regular season game scheduled against Clemson, which could provide major implications for how a potential championship matchup would fare.
Secondary contenders
With so many good teams in the ACC, it’s hard to lump them all in as “contenders” when truly only two teams fit that bill. Here’s a look at some teams that will make noise in 2020, while being a step or two below Clemson and Notre Dame.
North Carolina Tar Heels
Sam Howell aside, the Tar Heels look to be a much more formidable team than recent years under head coach Mack Brown’s leadership. Brown has a ridiculous recruiting class to work with, including five-star cornerback Tony Grimes, as well as many impactful returners.
UNC-Chapel Hill is also returning most of its receivers and backs, including Michael Carter and Javonte Williams, who make for a dynamic backfield, and Dazz Newsome and Dyami Brown, who each recorded over 1,000 receiving yards last season.
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Walton St. outdoor dining extended another month (but there’s at least one critic) (PS; Cazentre)
Walton Street in Armory Square will continue to be closed to traffic and opened to on-street dining on weekends through at least the end of September, city officials said today.
The city is extending the street closing that began in July as a way to boost traffic for restaurants and bars whose business has been disrupted this year by the coronavirus, dining room shutdowns and restrictions on how they can operate after reopening.
Walton Street will once again be closed to traffic from the corner of South Clinton, then west past South Franklin and around the curve along Onondaga Creek to West Fayette Street. The street is closed from 8 a.m. Friday to around 8 a.m. Monday, with restaurants allowed to set up tables along the curb until 10 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.
Restaurants taking advantage of the curbside table service are The Limerick Pub, The Blue Tusk and The Hops Spot in the 100 block of Walton between South Clinton and South Franklin, and Pita Dream, Margarita’s Mexican Cantina, Kasai Ramen and Sakana-Ya, all in the 200 block between South Franklin and Onondaga Creek.
All the cross streets remain open to traffic.
The response to the closing has been “overwhelmingly positive,” said Eric Ennis, the city’s director of business development.
“People are telling us there’s a vibrancy in Armory Square on weekends that rivals (the time) before Covid,” Ennis said.
The closing has not only drawn more people to the restaurants, but also to other retail businesses in the area, Ennis said. “People are coming down to eat, then taking a look around at the other things the area has to offer.”
But the closing has at least one vocal critic.
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