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Welcome to Geek Pride Day!

Geeks and geek culture are celebrated and promoted today. The day began in 2006, but various precursors came before it. The Geek Pride Festival, organized by Tim McEachern, was held at a bar in Albany, New York, from 1998 to 2000. Dick Morley, the "father" of the programmable logic controller, organized Geek Pride Days at his retreat in New Hampshire, beginning in 2001. The Geek Pride Day we celebrate today originated in Spain, coming from an idea from Spanish blogger Germán Martínez in 2006. He chose May 25 as its date because that is the anniversary of the debut of the original Star Wars film, which was released in 1977. In Madrid, 300 self-proclaimed geeks played a game of human Pac-Man together on the day. Rights and responsibilities for geeks were also written up. These included rights such as "the right to not be 'in-style'" and "the right to not like football or any other sport," as well as responsibilities such as "attend every geeky movie on opening night and buy every geeky book before anyone else."

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After losing his biggest fans, Colts' Zaire Franklin 'put all my pain into the game' (theathletic.com; $; Boyd)

Zaire Franklin was ready to give up on football.

The game was fun, but being a self-labeled “chubby kid” trying to make the 75-pound weight limit for his youth league was not. As a 9-year-old, Franklin recalls wearing trash bags with holes cut in the top and sides for his head and arms to bed and waking up in a pool of sweat.

The next morning, on game day for the Oak Lane Wildcats, the North Philadelphia native would hardly eat. A full breakfast was too risky.

Franklin’s grandmother, Juanita Highsmith, helped him convince his mother, Shelice Highsmith, to let him play and served as his unofficial dietician. Under her guidance, there would be no compromise — and certainly no quitting.

“If we had like a 1 o’clock game, grandma would get him up early and put him on her scale and call me, ‘He’s two pounds over,'” said Eric Taylor, Franklin’s former Pop Warner coach, who’s known him since he was 7 years old. Juanita would bring Franklin to the field a couple hours early and he’d start running laps, trash bag still on. “We’d have to get the wet clothes off him because that would add weight, but most of the time he’d make the weight,” Taylor said. “Boy, he’d go out there and wreak havoc.”

Taylor credited Juanita for the intensity and physicality that has carried Franklin all the way to the NFL. His old coach remembers many times when Juanita would bend down, peer into Franklin’s eyes through his facemask and relay the message she wanted him to send: “You’re gonna go out there, and you’re gonna hit somebody.”

Franklin describes his mother and his grandmother as his biggest fans. They often wore custom shirts emblazoned with his name to his Pop Warner games. Without those two women, he wouldn’t have earned a scholarship to Syracuse, wouldn’t have been selected in the NFL Draft and or shattered the Colts’ single-season tackles record in 2022.

Those accomplishments are as much theirs as they are his. He just wishes they were here to see it.
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https://www.thestate.com/sports/col...h-carolina/usc-football/article275737876.html (thestgate.com; Portnoy)

South Carolina’s defensive line finally has a new piece — and it could go a long way.

USC landed a commitment from Syracuse transfer defensive end Jatius Geer on May 11, giving the Gamecocks a legitimate option to help bolster its lacking depth on the edge.

“Excited about him,” head coach Shane Beamer said on Monday at a Gamecock Club event in Florence. “Had a productive year last year for Syracuse and somebody that’s from the state of South Carolina, so it’s important to get a South Carolinian back on our roster — especially one that’s as productive as he is and at a position of need.”

Geer, an Anderson native who played high school football at Belton-Honea Path, appeared in 14 games (12 starts) over two years at Syracuse. He locked down a starting role this past season as a redshirt freshman, finishing the 2022 campaign with 33 tackles, 6.5 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, six quarterback hurries, a forced fumble and a blocked kick. The 3.5 sacks also marked the fifth-most by an Orange freshman in program history.

Rated the No. 1,030 player and No. 112 defensive lineman in the 2021 class, Geer initially pledged to Syracuse over reported offers from Georgia Tech, East Carolina, Kansas State, Memphis, Temple, UCF and Western Kentucky.

“He’ll help us to provide depth in that room, pass rush ability and size,” Beamer said. “And it’s good to get a guy in here that’s hungry but has also played a lot of football.”

South Carolina has legitimate needs at defense end following the transfers of Jordan Burch (Oregon) and Gilber Edmond (Florida State). It also took a hit when four-star freshman Monteque Rhames, a mid-year enrollee, was arrested on weapons charges in February. Rhames has been indefinitely suspended since the alleged incident was reported.

Seventh-year senior Jordan Strachan and veteran Tyreek Johnson have the most significant experience among returning players at the position, though Strachan is recovering from a torn ACL that ended his 2022 season in Week 2 at Arkansas.

Sophomore Bryan Thomas Jr. played in 10 games last year and could see major snaps again this fall. One-time N.C. State transfer Terrell Dawkins should factor into the equation as well after he was banged up most of the 2022 campaign.

The Gamecocks also brought in four-star freshman Desmond Umeozulu in the 2023 recruiting class. Umeozulu received rave reviews during the spring, but it’s unclear how much he will be counted on during his first college football season.

SOUTH CAROLINA 2023 TRANSFER CLASS
RB Mario Anderson, Newberry
TE Nick Elksnis, Florida
TE Trey Knox, Arkansas
TE Joshua Simon, Western Kentucky
OL Nick Gargiulo, Yale
OL Sidney Fugar, Western Illinois
OL Jaxon Hughes, Charlotte (PWO)
OL Ni Mansell, Mercer (PWO)
LB Jaron Willis, Ole Miss
WR Eddie Lewis, Memphis


Syracuse Football: 13 times Jim Brown proved he was greatest RB ever (itlh; Adler)

Syracuse football legend Jim Brown, who sadly passed away at the age of 87 on May 18, is the most accomplished student-athlete in the history of SU sports.

He played four sports on the Hill – football, lacrosse, basketball and track & field. He is most known for his iconic career as a running back for the Orange and in the pros. Many experts, though, have prognosticated that Jim Brown is not only the best running back in NFL history, but he’s also perhaps the greatest lacrosse player ever, too.

Jim Brown, who along with the late Ernie Davis and the late Floyd Little, created a national brand at Syracuse football by wearing the iconic number 44. In his playing days at the ‘Cuse, Brown received All-America honors in both football and lacrosse.

In his final season for Syracuse football in 1956, Jim Brown was a unanimous All-American and finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy voting, per cuse.com. That season, in eight games, he rushed 158 times for 986 yards and 13 scores on the ground.

For the entirety of his Syracuse football career, Brown competed in 24 games. He had 361 carries for 2,091 yards, which translates to 5.8 yards per rushing attempt. Jim Brown also scored 19 rushing touchdowns while on the Hill.

The late Jim Brown, a Syracuse football legend, had a storied NFL career.

Jim Brown, who is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, and the Professional Football Hall of Fame, played nine seasons in the NFL, all with the Cleveland Browns.

He finished his Browns’ career by playing in 118 games, rushing 2,359 times for 12,312 yards, or 5.2 yards per carry. He also scored 106 rushing touchdowns.

In his nine terms, Jim Brown led the NFL in rushing on eight occasions and was voted the league’s MVP three times. In every year of his NFL tenure, he was voted to the Pro Bowl, and he was a first-team All-Pro selection in eight campaigns.

In 1964, Brown was an NFL champion, and he reached the NFL championship game in 1957, 1964 and 1965. What’s important to keep in mind here is that when Jim Brown competed in the NFL, the league had a 12-game schedule for the first four years of his career and 14-game stanzas in his final five years.

At the age of 29, Brown shockingly retired from the NFL, “having set records in single-season rushing, career rushing, rushing touchdowns, total touchdowns and all-purpose yards,” according to SU Athletics.

Undeniably, Jim Brown put forth a ton of ridiculously awesome performances in the NFL, and I’m sharing below what I think are 13 of his best showings throughout his nine-season pro tenure.
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GUEST COLUMN: Pair recall greatness of Jim Brown (romesentinel.com; Bob & Dick Chancia)

The national media has well documented the history and legacy of Jim Brown; but here’s a one-two punch of our own experiences with the Hall of Fame running back.

We were freshmen at Syracuse University in the fall of 1954. As members of SU’s “100 Men & A Girl” football band, we were eyewitnesses to all of the legendary running back’s college games, seeing the All-American trample over all of the opponents he faced on the gridiron during his varsity career.

The climax was at the 1957 Cotton Bowl, where Brown scored three touchdowns. His third extra point attempt was blocked and SU lost to Texas Christian University 28-27.

We marched in that New Year’s Eve Cotton Bowl parade ahead of a fire truck, carrying Brown, suited in a dapper olive green corduroy suit. Later, Dick bought the identical suit at Manny’s on Marshall Street.

We watched Brown play every varsity basketball game at the Syracuse War Memorial as members of SU’s Pep Band. We watched him win two events in a track meet vs Colgate one morning, enough to give SU the win! After changing uniforms, he led Syracuse to a victory over Army in lacrosse that same day!

The highlight of our Brown encounters was as classmates in a 15-member genetics class in Lyman Hall. Now that’s the luck of the Orange! On the first day of class, Professor Gillette remarked, “This is an interesting genetics class; we have an African-American and a set of identical twins!”

When walking down Lyman’s steps after a test, Jim asked, “How did you answer question No. 2?” Bob responded, “The right answer was C.” Jim replied, “Good deal!”

Brown led his ‘57 class as the class marshal, in his Army ROTC uniform at commencement while we played our clarinets in SU’s band. We followed every black and white telecast of his Cleveland Browns games. When working in Detroit, our press-agent friend escorted us to the sidelines to try to get a picture with Brown, but he declined due to his pre-game warmup.
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JUCO running back Deston Hawkins commits to Syracuse (PS; Leiker)

Syracuse football continues to fill out its roster for 2023, adding another junior college player late Tuesday night.

Running back Deston Hawkins announced his commitment via Twitter. He spent the past two seasons at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. He is originally from Menlo Park, California.

Hawkins (6-foot-1, 205 pounds) was originally in the class of 2019 according to 247 Sports.


He started at Foothill in 2021 but did not play until last season, when he appeared in 10 of the Owls’ 11 games and rushed for 1,164 yards and 18 touchdowns on 137 carries. Hawkins also had six receptions for 95 yards.



Hawkins was a 2022 Pac 7 first team All-Conference selection.



Last week, Syracuse added two JUCO players, a transfer and a preferred walk-on to its 2023 roster: defensive back Jakobie Seabourn, defensive back Berry Buxton III, offensive lineman David Wohlabaugh Jr. and wide receiver Nick Armentano.

The Orange were believed to have 75 players on scholarship and 91 total rostered exiting spring camp before a few more players decided to depart via the transfer portal.


Syracuse earns commitment from JUCO running back - Saturday Road (saturdayroad.com; Davis)


Syracuse picked up a crucial commitment late Tuesday night.

The Orange earned a pledge from JUCO star running back Deston Hawkins. A member of the 2023 recruiting class, Hawkins spent last season with Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California.

Here’s his announcement:



Hawkins was a very impactful player for Foothill College last season. He rushed for 1,161 yards and 18 touchdowns in just 10 games. He earned first-team all-conference honors for his performance.

He joins a Syracuse squad that will be tasked with replacing one of the best running backs in the country in Sean Tucker. Over the past 2 seasons, Tucker has rushed for over 2,500 yards and 23 touchdowns. He is currently with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL.

Hawkins is the 18th player to join Syracuse’s 2023 recruiting class. The Orange have also earned commitments from 7 transfers this offseason.

He will have 3 years of eligibility remaining.

Here are some highlights from Hawkins’ season at Foothill College:
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Syracuse football: seven players selected to preseason Athlon All-ACC teams (TNIAAM; Tomiauolo)

We’re still months away from the start of the Syracuse Orange football season, but it’s never too early for preseason player predictions. Rosters around the ACC may not be finalized yet, but that didn’t stop Athlon from releasing its four-team all-ACC squads on Monday.

Syracuse received eight selections across the four teams (Trebor Pena appears twice), which was just below the conference average. Check out the number of nominees for all ACC schools:

Six different ACC schools have double-digit All-Conference selections. https://t.co/lM1O5ACXoW
— Athlon Sports (@AthlonSports) May 22, 2023
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https://footballscoop.com/news/syracuse-has-a-new-football-facility-in-the-works (footballscoop.com; Samuels)

Syracuse has a new football facility in the works

The new football operations center is part of a $150 million investment into new facilities for Syracuse athletics.

Phase two of Syracuse 's plan for some long awaited updates to their athletics facilities is set to get underway, the school announced recently.

The major construction project is set to launch its next phase as the school has aimed at raising $150 million for athletics. A $25 million initial donation was given by John A. Lally back in 2019 to help jumpstart the initiative.

One of the jewels of those updates is a new football operations center that will house an expanded team cafeteria and nutrition space, a new locker room and position meeting rooms, coaches offices, and added space for student athletes.
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ACC News

Updated look at ACC football recruiting rankings for 2024 (usatoday; Turri)


Things are ramping up in the 24′ cycle, with ACC schools such as Florida State and Louisville already have five-star recruits committed as the ACC looks to compete with other Power 5 conferences over recruiting supremacy. So, who are the top classes in the ACC so far?

Here is an early look at the ACC football recruiting rankings for 2024 based on 247Sports Composite Rankings.

*Only teams with a commitment earned a ranking

1 Florida State Seminoles


National Rank: No.8


Total Commits: 11
Five star: 2
Four star: 5
Three star: 4

2 Wake Forest Demon Deacons


National Rank: No.12


Total Commits: 17
Five star: 0
Four star: 0
Three star: 14

3 North Carolina Tar Heels


National Rank: No.14


Total Commits: 13
Five star: 0
Four star: 1
Three star: 12

4 Pittsburgh Panthers


National Rank: No.20


Total Commits: 11
Five star: 0
Four star: 1
Three star: 10

5 Clemson Tigers


National Rank: No.21


Total Commits: 8
Five star: 0
Four star: 6
Three star: 2

6 Louisville Cardinals


National Rank: No.22


Total Commits: 8
Five star: 1
Four star: 2
Three star: 5

7 Miami Hurricanes


National Rank: No.25


Total Commits: 8
Five star: 0
Four star: 1
Three star: 7

8 Virginia Tech Hokies


National Rank: No.34


Total Commits: 6
Five star: 0
Four star: 0
Three star: 6

9 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets


National Rank: No.36


Total Commits: 6
Five star: 0
Four star: 0
Three star: 6

10 Duke Blue Devils


National Rank: No.39


Total Commits: 5
Five star: 0
Four star: 1
Three star: 4

11 NC State Wolfpack


National Rank: No.40


Total Commits: 5
Five star: 0
Four star: 0
Three star: 5

12 Syracuse Orange


National Rank: No.68


Total Commits: 3
Five star: 0
Four star: 0
Three star: 3

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https://www.si.com/fannation/colleg...xpansion-realignment-acc-plan-revenue-sharing (SI; Parks)

Amid the latest expansion rumors around college football that seemed to suggest up to seven ACC teams were thinking of making a move, the conference has now announced a new revenue-sharing plan it hopes will make those teams happy in the future.

After it was revealed that the so-called "Magnificent Seven" were looking to see if there was a way out of their media deal, those teams then pressured the ACC to change the way it distributes its money, in the hope of getting more of it, and it now appears that wish will be granted.

What that plan looks like, no one quite knows yet. But there is a plan.

What the ACC said

"The Atlantic Coast Conference Board of Directors today announced that it has endorsed a success incentive initiative that will begin during the 2024-25 academic year," the conference said in a statement.

"The specifics of the plan are in progress and will be solidified in the coming months. Under this initiative, the implementation of the success incentives will come solely from the performance of teams in revenue generating postseason competition. All other revenues will continue to be equally shared as currently outlined."

What happened up to now

Insiders reported that the seven schools — Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Virginia, and Virginia Tech — were looking into whether they could get out of the ACC's media deal that runs through 2036 without having to pay the conference a reported $120 million exit fee.
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Ubben: Why unequal revenue sharing won't save the ACC (theathletic.com; $; Ubben)

It makes sense on paper, sure.

On Wednesday, the ACC announced an “endorsement of success initiatives,” which is college administrator-ese for “some schools are getting a bigger slice of the conference’s pie moving forward, and we’re going to find other places to dig up some cash, too.”

The announcement was short on details and long on jargon but did specify that additional rewards for performance in “revenue generating postseason competition” will be coming.

In short, if schools qualify for the College Football Playoff or advance deep in the NCAA Tournament or other big postseason events, they’ll get more money. The specifics will be sorted through later.

But history, especially in college sports, has a way of repeating. And the conundrum in which the ACC finds itself is anything but new. If any league members think they can rewrite this ending, they’re mistaken.

The gap in revenue between the ACC and the sport’s soon-to-be Big 2 — the Big Ten and the SEC — is growing. Both leagues distributed more than $800 million to league members in the 2022 fiscal year. The ACC distributed $617 million to its members.
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Study of College Influence (RX; HM)


Study of College Influence

College FB Map

Today we have something special: a research paper from Worchester Institute (MA). Enjoy!

The paper is for a new study on American college influence. I applied a classic geographic sphere of influence model I first learned about in my undergraduate Economic Geography class at the University of Nebraska to different aspects (enrollment, alumni, research, sports) of colleges. Fun work and interesting results. I made direct use of what you posted for football map.

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https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2023/05/acc-partners-with-uscah-for-healthcare.html (RX; HM)

ACC Partners with USCAH for Healthcare Resources

From the official ACC release of Wednesday, May 24, 2023...

ACC Announces Partnership with USCAH for Healthcare Consultation and Resources

The Atlantic Coast Conference has partnered with the U.S. Council for Athletes’ Health (USCAH) to provide comprehensive healthcare consultation and resources for all 15 league members.
“The ACC is excited for our partnership with USCAH in providing critical resources to benefit the 10,000 student-athletes in our conference,” said ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “The health and well-being of our student-athletes is our top priority. Our USCAH partnership furthers our 15 institutions’ commitment to providing comprehensive services to our student-athletes.”
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https://accfootballrx.blogspot.com/2023/05/links-news-and-rumors-2023-may-25.html (RX; HM)

Links, News, and Rumors 2023 May 25

From 2023 Notre Dame Home Football Schedule on FBSchedules, two Irish home games have been given start times and tv networks:

Saturday, Oct. 28

Notre Dame vs. Pitt – 3:30pm, NBC/Peacock

Saturday, Nov. 18

Notre Dame vs. Wake Forest – 3:30pm, NBC/Peacock

The majority of television schedules for weeks 1 through 3 will be announced on May 31st.
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From NCAA.org: NCAA releases sports wagering survey data

The survey queried 3,527 18- to 22-year-olds to better understand the prevalence of various sports wagering behaviors, as well as how attitudes toward wagering are being impacted by external forces, such as advertising...
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https://scarletandgame.com/2023/05/24/accs-impending-breakup-affects-ohio-state-football/ (scarletandgame.com; Stano)

The Ohio State football program will already have new opponents in conference play next season once USC and UCLA officially join the Big Ten. They likely won’t be the only two programs added to the conference in the coming years with what the ACC is going through.

Right now the ACC is dealing with a lot of infighting about money and how much they are getting from networks. There are rumors that the conference is on the verge of imploding because every school is out for themselves at the moment. No one cares about the greater good of the conference.

If that happens, the Big Ten is definitely going to swoop in and grab programs. It will be a fight between the Big Ten and the SEC to see who can grab the most desirable programs. Clemson, Miami, North Carolina, and Virginia Tech loom as the largest prizes.
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Other

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Long-term guests at the Candlewood Suites in Salina waited for a bus with migrants to come from New York City. The bus did not come.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2023/...national-drama-unfolds-is-the-bus-coming.html (PS; Eisenstadt)

Mike Branca had been sitting in the pavilion outside the Candlewood Suites hotel since midafternoon Tuesday, watching and waiting. People filtered in, sat for a bit with him, drank a beer, and left.

When was the bus coming, they all asked?

No one knew.

They were waiting for Central New York’s first bus of migrants to arrive from New York City.

The down-on-its luck airport hotel this week became a microcosm of the nation’s border debate. Anger was plentiful. Answers were elusive.

Hotel guests and government officials were left to sift through the little they had been told to find clues about what was to come.

No one was talking about when the bus was coming.

The question

The question was born May 18 in two places: the Salina hotel and the Syracuse office of Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon.

It started at the Candlewood Suites in the morning. Hotel management knocked on the doors of dozens of hotel guests, telling them they’d have to be out by the end of this week.

Long-term guests occupied 79 of the 123 hotel rooms. They said they asked why, but were told nothing, or that there was a renovation, which seemed unlikely.

Then they overheard the migrant bus plan. It seemed like it could be true, they said. More corporate people began to arrive in the hotel.

Some of those guests called town Supervisor Nick Paro’s office and McMahon’s office, they said. They wanted help. They were angry. Their calls mostly went unanswered. It could just be a rumor, after all.
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https://www.syracuse.com/business/2...ounty-visit-micron-headquarters-in-idaho.html (PS; Coin)


Top officials from Syracuse and Onondaga County visited Boise, Idaho, this week to meet with their counterparts and take a look at Micron Technology’s operations at the company headquarters.

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon, and county industrial development director Bob Petrovich spent a couple of days in the city, where Micron was founded in the late 1970s.

Walsh said they met with Boise Mayor Lauren McLean and top Micron officials, toured Micron’s research and operations headquarters, and got a first-hand look at the site where Micron plans to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant that will be smaller but similar to the one the company plans for the town of Clay.

“The purpose was to see the facilities with our own eyes and continue to build relationships between our community and Micron and the Boise community,” he said.

Walsh said he flew to Boise Sunday night and returned Tuesday night.

Micron has said it will spend up to $100 billion building a massive fabrication plant, or fab, on farmland in the town of Clay over the next 20 years. That could create 9,000 direct jobs and 40,000 more in spinoff industries.

Walsh said Micron’s facilities in Boise and Central New York will be deeply intertwined. Chips will be designed in Boise and then produced in the fabs in Boise and Clay, he said. Employees will move back and forth between the fabs, especially in the beginning as both are getting ramped up for production, Walsh said.
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