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Welcome to Bill of Rights Day!


On December 15, 1791, Virginia ratified the first ten amendments of the Constitution. With this, the amendments reached the requisite number of state ratifications necessary to become part of the Constitution. Known as the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments outline the rights of citizens vis-à-vis the federal government. They guarantee that citizens have civil rights and liberties such as freedom of speech, press, and religion; they establish rules for due process of law; they confirm that citizens have rights beyond those spelled out in the Constitution; and they affirm that powers not delegated to the federal government are left to the people and states. It is on today's anniversary of the ratification and implementation of the Bill of Rights that we celebrate Bill of Rights Day.

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Jaeden Gould Discusses Syracuse Commitment (SI; McAllister)


One of the first schools to contact former Nebraska defensive back Jaeden Gould when he entered the transfer portal was Syracuse. The Orange recruited him out of Bergen Catholic High School in New Jersey and was chomping at the bit to get another shot at the former SI-99 prospect. An official visit was quickly set up (this past weekend) and that sealed the deal for his portal recruitment.

"Just getting that second chance and reconnecting with the coaching staff," Gould said. "Connecting with the players and really just that visit. It was a great visit. I have a great relationship with coach Monroe so hanging out with him all weekend but also talking football and where they see me at. I just felt like it was the right place for me and it's closer to home."

During the official visit, the coaching staff focused primarily on what his role would be in the 3-3-5. Gould knows coach Monroe will be the defensive coordinator for the Pinstripe Bowl and says he believes what happens beyond that will work itself out. The system will remain the same and he feels he can blossom within it.
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Nick Carparelli "On The Block" 12-14-22 (ESPN; radio; Axe)

Nick Carparelli, executive director of bowl season, joins Brent to preview the upcoming bowl games and recap Syracuse’s season.

On The Block On Demand 12-14-22 (ESPN; radio; Axe)

Brent Axe addresses the choice that Syracuse fans will have to make regarding the transfer portal. Later, he examines what led to Duce Chestnut choosing to depart from Syracuse.


Syracuse football has wild week with coaching changes and transfers (cbssports.com; video; Finneral)

247Sports' James Finneral breaks down Syracuse football's wild week filled with coaching changes and transfer portal activity.

Syracuse football: Best of 2022 offense (TNIAAM; Wall, Chiappone & Haller)

As the Syracuse Orange prepare for their Pinstripe Bowl match-up with the Minnesota Golden Gophers we’re going to give our choices for some superlatives for the 2022 season.

Today we look at the Orange offense:

Offensive MVP:

Kevin: Garrett Shrader

I had my doubts about Shrader as a passer but he took major strides forward in 2022. His completion percentage went from 52.6% to 65%. He threw for eight more touchdowns and got the ball downfield more than we saw in 2021. Without him, Syracuse was severely limited.

Dom: Sean Tucker

It’s hard not to go with Shrader considering the leap he took this season, but I’ll make the case for Tucker on this one. He still finished with over 1,000 yards, 11 touchdowns, and 5.1 yards per carry. Compared to last season, he fell just one touchdown and one yard per carry short. The rest of the offense improved, but Tucker’s talent forced teams to gameplan around him, opening things up for other players to step up.

Steve: Orande Gadsden II

It’s Tucker, but I’m taking this in the literal wins against replacement type sense. If Gadsden doesn’t emerge like he does, the passing offense may not have a reliable target for an emergent Garrett Shrader passing game. He made enough clutch catches and was good enough at finding space that it allowed Shrader an outlet to get the ball off. Without him making a number of those plays, the Orange offense stalls, Tucker probably still gets his, but it’s highly unlikely Syracuse is over .500.
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Jeremiah Wilson Withdraws From Transfer Portal (SI; McAllister)

Freshman defensive back Jeremiah Wilson has withdrawn his name from the transfer portal and return to Syracuse, a source confirmed to All Syracuse. The news was first reported by Brian Higgins. The news comes one day after the Orange lost cornerback Duce Chestnut to the portal.

With Wilson’s withdrawal, Syracuse is at eight players in the portal . They include defensive back Duce Chestnut, Dom Foster, defensive lineman Josh Hough, wide receiver Courtney Jackson, defensive lineman Steve Linton, offensive lineman Tyler Magnuson, wide receiver Anthony Queeley and offensive lineman Chad Schuster.

It has been an offseason of change for Syracuse, which has lost both of its coordinators in the last week. Robert Anae took the offensive coordinator job at NC State while Tony White left to be Nebraska’s defensive coordinator. The Orange named Jason Beck its new offensive coordinator while longtime assistant Nick Monroe is interim defensive coordinator with the potential to remove the interim tag.
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SU offensive analyst Micah Simon departing for coaching job at Northern Colorado (PS; Leiker)

A Syracuse football offensive analyst has been hired to a coaching job at Northern Colorado.

Micah Simon will serve as the Bears’ wide receivers coach on new head coach Ed Lamb’s staff. The move was included in a report by ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg about a number of Northern Colorado hires.

Going to miss you a ton @micahsimon_ Forever part of the family https://t.co/xE1pCCCgvo
— Jaime Beck (@Jaime_Beck11) December 14, 2022

Simon met Lamb at BYU, where he played from 2015-19 and Lamb was an assistant head coach from 2016-22. As a wide receiver for the Cougars, Simon caught 90 passes for 1,109 yards and five touchdowns. He was a two-time captain.

Simon is the third member of the SU staff to depart this offseason following defensive coordinator Tony White and offensive coordinator Robert Anae making lateral moves to Nebraska and N.C. State, respectively, last week.


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FSU to break ground on football-only facility on Saturday (tomahawknation.com; Mire)

It’s been a long time coming.

December 17 will mark a special day for Florida State and send the historic program into the future of college athletics after a groundbreaking ceremony for their new Football-Only Facility this upcoming Saturday.

After a successful booster campaign last year and many charitable donations, the stand-alone Florida State Seminoles football-only facility will finally begin construction.

President Richard McCullough, Vice President and Director of Athletics Michael Alford, head coach Mike Norvell, Dunlap Family Remarks, and Seminole Boosters President Stephen Ponder will attend. Alford and Norvell will be made available to the media afterward to mark this jump into the future.


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Photos, plans for FSU football-only facility, stadium upgrades

The facility is set to be built adjacent to the existing indoor practice facility. Here are some early renderings of what the center could look like:

The football operations building will be the new day-to-day home of Florida State football. Located adjacent to the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Complex and the Dunlap practice fields, the new center will be one of the most significant investments in the program’s history. Inside its 150,000 square feet of dedicated space, Seminole student-athletes will enjoy first-class resources including:
· Dedicated football training facility attached to the existing Dunlap Athletic Training Center
· 13 position meeting rooms
· Indoor walk-thru meeting area adjacent to position meeting rooms
· Locker room
· Dedicated recruiting lounge/suite
· Offices for Football Coaching Staff
· Private Event Space
· Strength Training and Weight Room Centers that include:
Walk-thru recovery pools
Custom hot/cold plunge pools
Underwater treadmill pools
Dedicated recovery suite
Cryotherapy, hyperbaric chamber, high altitude room
· Team Meeting Rooms
· Player development areas
· Virtual Reality/Performance Enhancement Areas
· Nutrition/Fueling Stations
· Coaches Video/Production Offices

The new facility will be another centerpiece for recruits and boosters alike to showcase the vision of FSU athletics moving forward.
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Friedlander: Looking back at the 5 biggest surprises of the 2022 ACC regular season - Saturday Road (saturdayroad.com; Friedlander)

No season ever goes exactly as expected. Between injuries, the improvement of young players and the unpredictable bounces produced by an oblong ball, anything and everything can – and usually does – happen over the course of 12 games.

And 2022 was no exception.

Here’s a look back at the 5 biggest surprises of the recently completed ACC regular season.

5. Who’s house? Finley’s house

Ben Finley spent most of the season as NC State’s scout team quarterback. But like any good scout, he adhered to the motto “Be Prepared.”

That philosophy paid dividends on the final weekend of the regular season when injuries to Devin Leary and MJ Morris, along with the effectiveness of Jack Chambers, pressed him into service as the Wolfpack’s starter.

Finley threw only 9 passes last season and none this year before relieving Chambers late in the 1st half of the previous week’s game at Louisville. That inactivity didn’t prevent him from throwing for 271 yards and 2 touchdowns while out-dueling ACC Player of the Year Drake Maye in a 30-27 double overtime upset of rival North Carolina.

Finley’s performance was a proverbial bolt out of the (Carolina) blue, to be sure. But it was also right on brand considering his family history. His older brother Ryan went 3-0 in his State career against the Tar Heels. Two of those wins came at UNC’s Kenan Stadium, a venue he derisively nicknamed “Carter-Finley North.”

The Wolfpack’s Carter-Finley Stadium is actually located due east of Chapel Hill as the crow flies. It’s a mistake Ben corrected in the postgame media room after doing his part to, in the words of coach Dave Doeren, “keep the tradition going for the Finleys.”

4. The Seminoles’ seminal moment

Florida State surged back toward prominence by winning its final 5 regular-season games, punctuated by a defining victory against rival Florida. But the successful 9-3 season that will finish in the Cheez-It Bowl against Oklahoma would never have been possible without a dramatic upset of LSU in New Orleans on Labor Day Sunday.

The Seminoles were a decided underdog against a team that went on to win the SEC West. Their 24-23 win served as a springboard for the rest of the season and helped turn down the temperature on coach Mike Norvell’s seat.

As unexpected as the result was, an even greater surprise was the way it came about.

After leading almost the entire game, FSU nearly squandered it away when running back Treshaun Ward fumbled a pitch just before reaching the goal line as the Seminoles were going in for what would have been a clinching touchdown.

LSU then drove 99 yards in the opposite direction and needed only to kick an extra point to force overtime with no time remaining on the clock. But instead of turning into a crushing defeat, the Seminoles came away with an uplifting victory when redshirt freshman safety Shyheim Brown saved the day by getting his hand on the kick and causing it to doink off the upright.

3. Georgia Tech’s Key to success

Brent Key started the season as one the many semi-anonymous foot soldiers that are the backbone of college football programs across the country. But that changed on the morning of Sept. 26.

That day, he went from being the respected offensive line coach at Georgia Tech to the Yellow Jackets’ interim leader in the aftermath of coach Geoff Collins’ firing. He was basically a placeholder to get the program through the rest of the season after a miserable 1-3 start.

Apparently, someone forgot to tell him that.

In his 1st game as head coach, Key led Tech to an upset of then-No. 24 Pittsburgh. He then followed with an overtime win against Duke. A former 4-year letterman with the Yellow Jackets, Key’s popularity with his players seemed to bring out the best in them.

He finished the season with a 4-4 record (4-3 in the ACC). Two of the wins came against ranked opponents on the road. While that wasn’t good enough for Tech to gain bowl eligibility, it did help Key earn a 5-year, $15 million contract to serve as the team’s permanent coach.

2. Duke defies the odds

One word kept getting repeated by DeWayne Carter, Shaka Heyward and Jacob Monk – the players representing Duke at the ACC’s Football Kickoff media event last summer.

Energy.

It’s a quality that had been lacking among the Blue Devils for the final 2 seasons of former coach David Cutcliffe’s tenure. The team won a combined 5 games and went 1-17 in the ACC in 2020-21. But new coach Mike Elko came in and reignited a spark in the program. And his players bought in.

They shut out Temple 30-0 in the opener, beat Northwestern on the road and surpassed last year’s 3-win total by Oct. 1. Riding an opportunistic defense that produced the 2nd-best turnover margin in the nation at plus-14 and balanced offense that averaged 33 points per game, Duke became the only Power 5 team to win 8 or more games after earning 4 or fewer victories in 2021. It went 5-3 in the ACC with all 3 losses by a field goal or less.

It’s a turnaround only Elko, the ACC Coach of the Year, and his players saw coming.

“It’s been an unbelievable culture shift for us,” the former Wake Forest, Notre Dame and Texas A&M defensive coordinator said before the season began. “A lot of times when you take over a new program, you get a lot of resistance. You get a lot of fight back. I think these guys … have just done an amazing job buying into what we’re trying to do.”
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Greg McElroy selects FSU as most surprising ACC team in 2022 (SI; Bowles)

In head coach Mike Norvell's third season, No. 13 Florida State (9-3) turned heads nationally.

They defeated both in-state rivals for the first time since 2016, appeared in multiple iterations of the College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings and finished the regular season on a five-game win streak.

Norvell and the Seminoles received praise on ESPN's latest episode of "Always College Football with Greg McElroy" on Dec. 13.

Florida State was named McElroy's surprising team from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC).

"The team that I was not prepared for this type of breakthrough was Florida State," McElroy said.

The former Alabama (2007-10) quarterback has called the Seminoles' Week 1 matchup in five consecutive seasons, including the last three under Norvell (Georgia Tech, Notre Dame and LSU).
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Boston College Football Picks Up UCF Transfer WR Ryan O’Keefe (bcinterruption; Flannery)

On Wednesday night, UCF WR Ryan O’Keefe announced his commitment to transfer to Boston College for 2023.

Got some business to handle #Godsplan4️⃣ pic.twitter.com/OzEAvdjSda
— FOUR 4️⃣ (@RyanOKeefe23) December 15, 2022

O’Keefe has been a top option at WR for UCF for two seasons now. He has played in all 26 games these past two seasons and led the Knights in receiving yards in his junior season (2021) and then finished 2nd on the team this past season. The Austin, TX native comes to BC with one more year of eligibility remaining after getting solid playing time all four years in Orlando.

Zay Flowers put BC on the map as a place where receivers can excel and show off their talents for the NFL, which no doubt must’ve been enticing for O’Keefe. There will be a hole in the Eagles’ 2023 receiving group now that Flowers has declared for the NFL Draft with no obvious candidate to fill it. BC’s Joe Griffin has to be a prime candidate for that role, but Flowers’ usage was so high that we could see even two or three new receivers break out for Boston College next season. O’Keefe hopes to be one to do it.


2022 ACC Bowl TV, Radio, and Factoids (RX; HM)

2022 ACC Bowl TV, Radio, and Factoids
From the official ACC release of Dec. 14, 2022...

2022 ACC BOWL LINEUP

Saturday, Dec. 17, Time, TV, SiriusXM, App/Web

Wasabi Fenway Bowl, 11 a.m., ESPN, 109 or 193, 955
Cincinnati (9-3) vs. Louisville (7-5)
Series: Cincinnati leads series, 30-22-1; Last meeting: Louisville, 31-24 (2013)
ESPN: Chris Cotter (play-by-play), Mark Herzlich (analyst), Kelsey Riggs (sideline)

Friday, Dec. 23, Time, TV, SiriusXM, App/Web

Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl, 6:30 p.m., ESPN, 136 or 193, 955
Wake Forest (7-5) vs. Missouri (6-6)
Series: First meeting
ESPN: Chris Cotter (play-by-play), Mark Herzlich (analyst), Lericia Harris (sideline)

Wednesday, Dec. 28, Time, TV, SiriusXM, App/Web

Military Bowl Presented by Peraton, 2 p.m., ESPN, 136 or 193, 955
UCF (9-4) vs. Duke (8-4)
Series: First meeting
ESPN: Kevin Brown (play-by-play), Hutson Mason (analyst), Marilyn Payne (sideline)

San Diego County Credit Union Holiday Bowl, 8 p.m., FOX, 136 or 193, 955
No. 15 Oregon (9-3) vs. North Carolina (9-4)
Series: First meeting
FOX: Gus Johnson (play-by-play), Joel Klatt (analyst)

Thursday, Dec. 29, Time, TV, SiriusXM, App/Web

Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl, 2 p.m., ESPN, 135 or 193, 955
Syracuse (7-5) vs. Minnesota (8-4),
Series: Minnesota leads series, 3-2; Last meeting: Syracuse, 21-17 (2013)
ESPN: Wes Durham (play-by-play), Roddy Jones (analyst), Taylor Davis (sideline)
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On 2nd Thought: CFP-12 and Realignment (RX; HM)

On 2nd Thought: CFP-12 and Realignment

Will realignment (aka consolidation) continue, or do dwindling returns and conference champ auto-bids mean that it's nearing an end? In this post, we'll take a Pro/Con look at the two sides of this argument...

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Realignment is [nearly] done because...

Based on some ideas presented in "Doesn't 12 team CFP kill future realignment?" posted on CSNBBS:
The new 12-team CFP could kill future realignment, which is a good thing. Why? Note this opinion:

Other than TV rights payouts (more on these), the #1 reason for wanting to re-align [isn't money, as some think, it's] is better access to the Championship game. It's why FSU even flirted with B12 in 2010, because [they feared] the ACC competition would never be strong enough to get them into BCS contention even with a perfect schedule.

I believe this line of thinking has merit. Colleges are multi-billion dollar enterprises which view sports, not so much as a revenue stream, but rather, as a 24/7/365 advertisement. Sure, they'd like to at least break even if possible, but the thing they'd really like is to be in the spotlight (winning championships would be the icing on the cake). Fans don't always think like school administrators, so sometimes we need to see it from their point of view...
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Syverud visits Micron headquarters, sets sights on joint academic programs (DO; Chiappone)


Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud attended Wednesday’s University Senate meeting via Zoom from Boise, Idaho, where he and university administrators met with Micron officials at the company’s headquarters to discuss collaborative programs at SU.

Syverud called the meetings “productive,” and said the plans and goals laid out are setting up the next stage in the university’s partnership with Micron moving forward.

“It’s apparent that the university’s relationships with Micron are going to be long-term and will cut across many schools, colleges, and units,” Syverud said.

On Oct. 4, Micron announced it would be investing up to $100 billion to build a semiconductor chip manufacturing plant in Clay, New York, around 15 miles north of Syracuse. At the end of October, President Joe Biden visited Syracuse to address the community on Micron’s investment in a speech at Onondaga Community College, in which he called the plant “one of the most significant investments in American history.”

Syverud met with Micron leaders alongside Mike Haynie, SU’s vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and innovation, and Gretchen Ritter, SU’s vice chancellor, provost and chief academic officer. Syverud didn’t mention any specific plans in motion but said Micron and SU are making progress in developing joint academic programs.

“This visit has been the next stage in creating a clear structure and to enable… university collaboration with Micron,” he said.
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CenterState CEO plans to start construction in the spring of 2023 on a nearly $25 million of The Tech Garden business accelerator in downtown Syracuse. (QPK Design)


$25M business incubator expansion to give dark corner of downtown Syracuse a cool new look (PS; $; Moriarty)

A nearly $25 million expansion of The Tech Garden business accelerator will give a dreary stretch of downtown Syracuse a bright, modern look, planners say.

CenterState CEO, which operates the facility, plans to start construction on a two-story addition in the spring of 2023. Completion is expected in the fall of 2024.

The addition will add 46,000 square feet of flexible office and meeting space that will nearly triple the number of startup companies that can work there, according to the economic development organization.

The 30,000-square-foot center has served as an incubator for successful startups like Digital Hyve, Ephesus Lighting, Density, Impel (formerly SpinCar) and TCGplayer (which was recently acquired by eBay for $295 million).

The center provides low-cost office space and mentoring to new companies in technology fields, including the unmanned aerial systems industry. At the expanded space, those businesses will have access to the roof to launch drones.

Its original name was Syracuse Technology Garden, which was later shortened to The Tech Garden. With the expansion, the center plans to extend its support to companies outside the technology fields and likely will adopt a new name.
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