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Presidents' Day is officially known as Washington's Birthday, and is a holiday to honor the first president, George Washington, who was born on February 22, 1732. It is a federal holiday, as well as a state holiday in many states. In 1800, the year after Washington's death, the day became an unofficial day of remembrance. The centennial of his birth was a particularly important day of celebration, and the Washington Monument went under construction in 1848. Congress and President Rutherford B. Hayes made Washington's Birthday a holiday in 1879. Originally only federal offices in Washington D.C. were closed, but this was expanded to all federal offices in 1885. At this time the holiday was observed on Washington's actual birthday.
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Garden State Wide Receiver Donovan McKoy Staying in Contact With Syracuse (SI; McAllister)
Donovan McKoy is an intriguing prospect. At 6-5, he has an elite frame to go along with athleticism and ball skills. In addition, McKoy is a star on the St. Joseph's basketball team. He holds offers in football from Fordham, Monmouth, Yale, UConn, UMass, Kent State, Central Michigan and Marshall, and a basketball offer from Wagner.
Syracuse has not offered yet, but has remained in constant communication.
"I talk to coach Monroe," McKoy said. "I've been talking to him since I believe week one of the season. We text basically every day. He shows me the campus of Syracuse, the facilities, we talk about football, how the football season went. Right now we're talking about how my basketball season's going. I'd say every day to every other day we're definitely talking about something. Recently we talked about the Super Bowl, so it's an active relationship."
McKoy says he and Syracuse assistant Nick Monroe have developed a strong relationship.
"I think we've gotten a lot closer," McKoy said. "Coach Monroe is a really great guy. He's really passionate. He's got passion in everything he does and that's what I love about him. He's always there for you on the football or off the field. He's a great guy who you can talk to about anything. Anything you want to talk to him about, he will give you his feedback and he listens. I think that's one of the reasons why we've gotten a lot closer because he's that coach that's always there for you. And he's a really funny guy too. I think that's why texting him, being in contact with him, we've gotten closer over the past two, three months than I did with a lot of other coaches."
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ACC Football: Newcomers who’ll have the biggest impact in 2022 (saturdayblitz.com; Pryor)
12. Syracuse Orange: Transfer, Alijah Clark (Rutgers):
The Orange lost a ton in their secondary the last couple of seasons. Rutgers Transfer Alijah Clark can help fill that void. The Camden native gives the Orange a versatile defender on the back end. Clark can cover the slot, the boundary, or the deep half as a safety.A four-star recruit coming out of high school, Clark was the first recruit signed in Rutgers’ 2021 class. Syracuse gets Clark for at least two seasons. Transferring to the Orange reunites Clark with Camden High School teammate Darian “Duce” Chestnut in the same secondary.
11. Virginia Cavaliers: Transfer, Mac Hollensteiner (Georgetown)
New head coach Tony Elliot has suffered some attrition this offseason. The offensive line lost three offensive linemen to the transfer portal. Interior offensive lineman Victor Oluwatimi, one of the most coveted portal o-linemen, signed with Michigan.
Tackles Bobby Haskins and Joseph Bissinger transferred to USC and SMU, respectively. Georgetown transfer Mac Hollensteiner and Dartmouth transfer John Paul Flores give the Cavaliers much-needed depth. However, depth is still a concern in the trenches.
10. North Carolina State Wolfpack: Michael Allen, Running back
Wolfpack quarterback Devin Leary had the best season of his college career, throwing 35 touchdown passes. However, Dave Doeren and North Carolina State want to run the football. Running backs Ricky Pearson, Jr. and Zonovan “Bam” Knight combined for nearly 1,400 yards rushing last season.With both runners headed for the NFL, there is an opening at running back. Incoming freshman Michale Allen is one of the faster prospects this fall, running a 4.48 in the forty-yard dash. Allen has a tremendous first step and does not take long to accelerate. Expect the Greenville native to compete for snaps this fall.
9. Louisville Cardinals: Popeye Williams, EDGE rusher
Emory Hunt famously says, “size is not a skill, and you can’t hit what you can’t catch.” Don’t be fooled by Popeye Williams’ size. Despite measuring at 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, Williams gets home frequently. Though he played defensive end in high school, Williams likely plays outside linebacker in Louisville’s 3-4 defense.Williams uses his hands tremendously well and has some variety with his pass rush. Yasir Abdullah, Louisville’s led the team in sacks last year and is the only proven commodity at linebacker returning this season. That opens the door for Williams to compete for snaps this fall.
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Year 1 Appalachian State HC - 9-4
Year 2 Appalachian State HC - 11-2
Year 3 Appalachian State HC - 13-1 (National Champions)
Year 4 Texas A&M HC - 14-0 (National Champions)
Year 5 Florida State HC - 13-0 (National Champions)
Year 6 Syracuse HC - 11-3
Year 7 Syracuse HC - TBA
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Comparing Cristobal’s ‘22 staff to Schnellenberger’s staff in 1983 (stateoftheu.com; Dottavio)
Mario Cristobal is putting together one of the all-time coaching staffs in not just Miami Hurricanes, but in college football history. Cristobal’s staff is loaded with talent on both sides of the football, and will be expected to compete for the ACC Championship right away in a down ACC and with a talented ‘Canes roster.
This will be part one of a multi-part series on former Miami coaching staffs that built the legacy of The U. Yeah, yeah I realize the ‘22 staff hasn’t coached a practice yet let alone a game. Let’s have some fun and live a little!
The 2022 Staff
Cristobal comes to Miami from Oregon where he won the Rose Bowl and coached Justin Herbert, Penei Sewell, and Kayvon Thibodeaux. Cristobal is also the former head coach of the FIU Golden Panthers, and an experienced assistant who has worked with Butch Davis at Miami, Greg Schiano at Rutgers, and Nick Saban at Alabama.The ‘Canes OC will be Josh Gattis, the recent Broyles Award winning OC from Michigan. Gattis will coach wide receivers for the ‘Canes, and has also worked under Nick Saban and now Jim Harbaugh as an OC under two demanding head coaches.
Cristobal’s offensive staff also has RB coach Kevin Smith who has worked under George O’Leary and Lane Kiffin; Frank Ponce as the QB coach, who has worked under Cristobal at FIU, and Scott Satterfield at Louisville and App State, and OL coach Alex Mirabal who has worked under Cristobal and around college and high school football for years. Mirabal produced stud NFL right tackle Penei Sewell while at Oregon.
The defensive staff has their own Sonny Lubick at DC in Kevin Steele. Steele has DC’d some top flight units over his career, including groups at Auburn, Clemson and LSU. He’s potentially being joined by Charlie Strong. Strong is a bright defensive mind that has been a head coach at Louisville, Texas and USF, but also a well respected DC in his own right.
Miami’s DB coach will be Jahmile Addae. Addae is a former West Virginia Mountaineer, who just won the National Championship with the Georgia Bulldogs on Kirby Smart’s coaching staff. Addae has been exposed to some bright defensive minds in Will Muschamp and Smart. Addae has also coached at WVU, Arizona and Minnesota. Addae is considered one of the up and coming bright minds in defensive football.
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George Kliavkoff quote explains why Pac-12 voted against playoff expansion (trojanswire.usatoday.com; Zemek)
The Pac-12 has been unambiguous in supporting an enlarged College Football Playoff field. Commissioner George Kliavkoff would prefer some details more than others, but he and the conference have supported the various models for an expanded playoff, since that would give the Pac-12 a spot in the event after years of missing out. The conference would receive needed publicity and revenue. Kliavkoff has been clear in saying the Pac-12 needs this.
So, why did the Pac-12 — as revealed in recent days — vote against playoff expansion? The vote went 8-3, with the Pac-12 joining Alliance partners from the Big Ten and ACC in voting no.
Is Kliavkoff not dealing straight? Is he being contradictory? It might seem like it on the surface, but Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News explains why this happened the way it did.
Before excerpting from Wilner’s latest report, realize that the College Football Playoff’s current 12-year deal runs through 2025. That 12-year run is what will remain intact, relative to the announcement on Friday that the playoff won’t expand in the next four years and will go through 2025 as a four-team event.
What happens after 2025 is a question which has clearly not been resolved in back-channel negotiations:
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CFB Playoff: Greg Sankey and SEC might back off expansion compromise (bamahammer.com; Evans)
For some reason, some of the decision-makers are missing a key point in any future success to expand the CFB Playoff field. They seem to have forgotten that Greg Sankey and the SEC were content to maintain a four-team format.
Sankey went along with fellow commissioners Bob Bowlsby and Craig Thompson, plus Notre Dame Athletics Director, Jack Swarbrick to propose a 12-team format. Sankey made it clear he and the SEC were content with four teams, but were willing, with certain format details, to expand.
There is a reason that for over a year, the four men had to hide their meeting locations and times. It was almost as though treachery and deceit had to be avoided, lest the process be derailed.
They came up with a good plan and there was broad optimism it would later gain the needed votes. What was actually a three-year effort to build a better Playoff format came to an end recently with an 8-3 vote in favor of the change but failing to meet a standard of three of the Power Five conferences supporting it. Among the three no votes by the Big 10, Pac 12 and ACC, there was disappointment the vote results became known to the college football world.
That disappointment led to a scurrying effort to announce their support of Playoff expansion. What was not added, was the support was conditional, subject to agreement to their self-serving conditions.
Sun Belt Commissioner, Keith Gill provided a telling observation,
There is a word to describe the situation. The word is impasse. The space between the locked-in opposing views is a chasm.
Remember ‘The Alliance’ from a few months ago? It was portrayed as many things by its members, the Big 10, ACC and Pac 12. It was really just one thing – an attempt by the three conferences to stop losing ground to the SEC.
Recent reports are the glitzy, proposed inter-conference scheduling agreements among Alliance members are off to a rocky start. Commissioners of the three leagues have a far bigger problem. That problem is Greg Sankey, who commented after the recent vote,
From our perspective, we’ve given. We’re going to have to go and rethink our position based on how others have approached the conversation that, really, they initiated. And I don’t expect that to get any easier.
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The Wienermobile was parked outside the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Thursday. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)Charlie Miller
Want to drive the Wienermobile? Oscar Mayer vehicle spotted in Syracuse, seeking recruits (PS; Herbert)
Hot diggity dog! The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile is in Syracuse, recruiting drivers for the iconic vehicle.
The Wienermobile was spotted outside the Newhouse School at Syracuse University on Thursday with a sign that said the company was seeking recent college graduates to become an official “Wienermobile Spokeperson.” If hired, they would become a brand specialist for Oscar Mayer, traveling the country “in a PR firm on wheels” and developing public relations skills while promoting Oscar Mayer and Kraft Heinz Company products.
According to Wienermobile driver “Nicole Slaw,” the Wienermobile will be on campus all weekend looking for Hotdoggers to join the team; the deadline for SU students to apply is Monday, Feb. 21.
“Syracuse! Land of Orange! The Wienermobile has Arrived!I am so so excited to bring the 27-foot-long hotdog on wheels to my alma mater, so that we can recruit some potential Orange Hotdoggers for class 35,” said fellow Wienermobile driver “Mustard Marcelo.”
Students can direct message Mustard and Nicole on Instagram for more information, or apply online at Oscar Mayer Weinermobile.
The Wienermobile is scheduled to make public appearances at the Winter Hibernation Festival in Canastota on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Sunday at the Syracuse Winterfest at the Inner Harbor from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The 27-foot-long vehicle, painted yellow and red and shaped like an actual hot dog on a bun, is one of six Wienermobiles that regularly tour the country and encourage fans to take photos, play fun activities with families, and offer looks inside the ride or a chance at taking home a famous Wiener Whistle.
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