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Welcome to Orangemen's Day!
Also known as the Twelfth or the Glorious Twelfth, Orangemen's Day commemorates and celebrates the Battle of the Boyne, fought in 1690, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688, which took place when James II, a Roman Catholic, was deposed, and William of Orange, a Protestant, received his throne. Orangemen's Day primarily is celebrated by people with Protestant Irish or Scottish backgrounds. In some locations, it is observed on the Monday closest to July 12th.
The Battle of the Boyne was fought on July 1, 1690, outside of Drogheda, along the River Boyne, in what now is the Republic of Ireland. Prince William of Orange and James II of England and Ireland, who was also known as King James VII of Scotland, each raised an army of about 30,000 troops, and Prince William came out victorious in the battle. The battle remains a symbol of the sectarian struggles in Ireland between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Not long after it, the defeated Catholics formed underground societies in an attempt to restore the line of James. The Protestants countered by forming the Orange Order.
SU News
Syracuse's Oronde Gadsden is hoisted into the air after catching the game-winning touchdown against Purdue on Sept. 17. Gadsden is already being predicted as a 2024 NFL Draft pick. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com
PFF lists Gadsden as a Top 10 draft-eligible wide receiver (PS; Leiker)
A lot more eyes will be on Syracuse football’s Oronde Gadsden this season, which could potentially be his last of college.
Pro Football Focus listed Gadsden as the No. 8 wide receiver who will be eligible for for the 2024 NFL Draft.
While the Orange lists him as a tight end, Gadsden is regularly included on lists of top wide receivers considering he pretty much acts as one and was quarterback Garrett Shrader’s top target through the air last year.
He’s two spots above Florida State’s Johnny Wilson, the only other ACC player on the list.Gadsden finished a breakout 2022 season 969 yards and six touchdowns on 61 receptions. In his freshman season, when he was truly a wide receiver, Gadsden had just two receptions for 24 yards.
PFF graded Gadsden at 82.2% for overall offense, second-best on the Orange to only Shrader.
...Top 10 WRs in the 2024 NFL Draft️
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— PFF College (@PFF_College) July 11, 2023
Syracuse football 2023 opponent preview: Colgate Raiders (TNIAAM; Ostrowski)
We’re counting down the days until Syracuse Orange football returns. If you’ve been following our Get to Know Your Orange Man series, you should have a good idea of what SU’s team looks like this year. But what about the opposition?
Well, I’m happy to say that I’ll be previewing all 12 of Syracuse’s regular season games again this year! Kicking things off is the same team Dino Babers began his current tenure against...
Colgate Raiders
School: Colgate UniversityMascot: Raiders
#BRAND Slogans: #GoGate, #ThreeForTheGate
Alternate #BRAND Slogan Suggestions: #ThreeWinsForTheGate or “Are you SURE we’re older than Cornell?”
Recommended Blog: Underdog Dynasty
Conference: Patriot League (FCS)
History vs. Syracuse: It may surprise you that the all-time series between these two programs is tied 31-31. Granted, that history goes all the way back to before the invention of the forward pass, and SU has won the past 16 matchups. Only the last five of those took place in the Dome, including the most recent 33-7 victory in 2016.
Coach: Stan Dakosty, Third Season. After beginning his college career at ‘Gate, Dakosty suffered a career-ending injury at the end of the 2002 season. He spent both the ‘03 and '04 seasons as a student assistant, and after a brief stint at DIII Amherst, he returned for a full-time coaching role in 2007. He’s been with the team since, working various roles on both sides of the ball before becoming head coach in 2021.
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30 Minutes In Orange Nation 7-11-23 (ESPN; radio; Orange Nation)
Steve Infanti and Paulie Scibilia discuss Syracuse football bringing in JUCO RB JJ Branham and whether or not it says anything about LeQuint Allen’s upcoming court case. Then, Jordan joins the show and compares the situation to Pat Fitzgerald’s firing. Later, the guys go over what they liked and didn’t like about last night’s Home Run Derby and announce the winner of yesterday’s office HR Derby pool.
https://collegefootballnews.com/cfn/syracuse-orange-college-football-preview-2023 (CFN; Fiutak)
2022 Record: 7-6 overall, 4-4 in ACC
Head Coach: Dino Babers, 8th year: 36-49, 12th year overall: 73-65
@ColFootballNews | @PeteFiutak
Can Syracuse do more than just get by?
Just when it looked like the program was going to start to take off under Dino Babers following his 10-3 2018 shocker, everything went back to being Syracuse with two 5-7 seasons and a 1-10 clunker of 2020. And then came last year.
The Orange got through a tough schedule to get to seven wins, a few thrillers, and a collapse over the second half of the season when they had to play the big boys of the 2022 ACC.
They got to a bowl game, went 7-6, and … it just got by.
At 50-72 overall since joining the ACC with just three winning seasons in the ten years - the last conference championship was 2012, when they were still in the Big East - it’s been tough to put it all together and make a whole lot of noise outside of the 2018 outlier.
There were several coaching changes - and they’re good ones; more on the coordinators in a moment - to help fight through yet another challenging schedule, and there's hope with six games against teams that didn’t go bowling last year.
There are enough good parts to be good, but to do more than just get by they need a whole lot more from …
Syracuse Orange Preview: Offense
The offensive line. It’s been one among the biggest of the program's aching Achilles heels under Babers, and now it’s up to offensive coordinator Jason Beck - moving up from handling the quarterbacks - to try getting more out of a patched up front five....
SU's 2023 O-line: Starting 5 seems clear, but chemistry still needs to form (PS; $; Leiker)
Joe More had been in the NCAA transfer portal about a week when he made his mind up on Syracuse football.
Appearing on teammate Chris Bleich’s podcast, More, who transferred from University of Richmond, shared how an in-person visit from former Orange offensive line coach Mike Schmidt solidified SU as his future home.
Schmidt called More from Boston, where he was on a recruiting trip, then flew down to Washington D.C. and drove three hours back up to Richmond, Virginia to meet More.
“By him doing that I really felt like this was a place where they cared about me,” More said.
More is the oldest of six new members of Syracuse’s O-line, which lost three starters last season — left tackle Matthew Bergeron, right tackle Dakota Davis and center Carlos Vettorello — but returns everyone else from its depth chart plus three additional players.
The group has a depth of experience but still has to build the chemistry required for its unit through the four weeks of fall camp leading up to Syracuse’s first game against Colgate on Sept. 2.
Returning from last year’s depth chart are left tackle Mark Petry, left guards Kalan Ellis and Jakob Bradford, center Josh Ilaoa, right guards Chris Bleich and Joe Cruz, and right tackle Enrique Cruz Jr.
Patrick Alberga, Wes Hoeh and Austyn Kauhi are also back.
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Syracuse football recruiting: Orange add JUCO RB John Branham, Jr (TNIAAM; Wall)
The Syracuse Orange are just a few weeks away from starting 2023 practices. With the status of running back LeQuint Allen in doubt, Dino Babers added another JUCO running back to the roster.
John Branham, Jr. committed to join the Orange from Blinn College. The Columbus, Ohio native carried the ball 107 times for 648 yards and seven touchdowns last season for Blinn. He had four games with 100+ rushing yards for the 3-6 Blinn team.
The 5’10” 205-lb back only caught three passes so we’ll have to see if he will project more as a short-yardage back for Syracuse.
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SU football single-game tickets on sale for all home games, plus Pitt at Yankee Stadium (PS; Leiker)
Single-game tickets for all six of Syracuse football’s 2023 home games, plus the neutral site game at Yankee Stadium against Pittsburgh in November, are on sale as of Tuesday.
The starting prices before fees for standard admission to each game at the JMA Wireless Dome are as follows:
- 4 p.m. Sept. 2 vs. Colgate $15
- Sept. 9 vs. Western Michigan $20
- Sept. 23 vs. Army $35
- Homecoming, Sept. 30 vs. Clemson $65
- 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 vs. Boston College $35
- Nov. 26 vs. Wake Forest $20
Partial game packages are also available. There’s a “Fall Pack” that covers the entire nonconference slate, the “ACC Pack” and the “Pick 3 Pack.”
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Keeping Up With The 315 7-11-23 (ESPN; radio; The 315)
Brian Higgins opens the show reacting to the news that Syracuse has added another JUCO running back and what that might mean for LeQuint Allen. Then, he dives into the murky timeline of the scandal at Northwestern and what it could mean for current ACC commissioner/former Northwestern AD Jim Phillips. Finally, Brian gives his thoughts on a long and, at times, boring Home Run Derby.
Onyon Joins Syracuse Athletics as Director of Performance Nutrition - Syracuse University Athletics (cuse.com)
Alyson Onyon joined the Syracuse University Athletics Department as the Director of Performance Nutrition in July 2023. Onyon, spent the previous seven years at Virginia Tech where she began as an assistant director of sports nutrition in 2016 and left the Hokies as the Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Nutrition where she oversaw nutrition services for all 22 sports teams.
Onyon's office is in the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center at Syracuse's John A. Lally Athletics Complex.
While at VT, Onyon managed the Student Athlete Performance Center (SAPC), an athlete-only dining facility on campus. She helped design and plan the facility as well as a new men's basketball fueling station. She worked primarily with the Hokies men's basketball and baseball programs and assisted with football nutrition operations.
During her time in Blacksburg, Onyon also spent time working primarily with women's basketball, softball, wrestling and golf.
She provided and promoted nutrition education through individual counseling sessions, team talks, cooking classes and grocery tours with Hokie student-athletes.
Onyon was a member of the ACC Healthcare Administration and Mental Health Task Force.
Prior to Virginia Tech, Onyon was a registered dietitian and performance nutrition intern at Texas A&M University in 2016 where she oversaw soccer, softball and men's and women's swimming & diving sports nutrition services while assisting with football, men's basketball, and baseball.
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ACC News
Clemson football's 2023 schedule has enough potential pitfalls to result in a 7-5 record (greenvilleonline.com; Keepfer)
Duke over Syracuse? Keepfer needs to watch more ACC football. Duke is wildly overrated and Syracuse is underrated.
Although Clemson is likely to be favored in at least 11 if not all 12 of its games this fall, the Tigers’ 2023 football schedule is rife with potential stumbling blocks.
Coach Dabo Swinney’s latest team will have plenty to play for, including a 13th consecutive season with 10 or more victories, an eighth ACC Championship in nine years and a return to the College Football Playoff following a two-year absence.
Five games on the schedule loom larger than the others, primarily because each of those opponents posted at least eight victories last season, harbor high expectations for 2023 and would enjoy nothing more than delivering a blow to Clemson’s postseason hopes.
Here are those five games, presented in chronological order:
Sept. 4 at Duke
Sure, Clemson already has been made a 12-point favorite in its Labor Day night opener, but the Tigers should take nothing for granted when first-game jitters factor into the equation. Clemson’s defense will be experienced and solid yet could be tested by dual-threat Duke quarterback Riley Leonard, who may be the most underrated player in the ACC.The Blue Devils, who went 9-4 last season under first-year coach Mike Elko, also boast an experienced defense that could prove problematic for young quarterback Cade Klubnik in his second career start.
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Who will be in attendance during the ACC Football Kickoff? Clemson HC Dabo Swinney, FSU QB Jordan Travis, UNC QB Drake Maye, and more (sportskeeda.com; Broyles)
College football media days kick off this week, and with these sessions, a flurry of action and topics will be discussed. The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) has not felt the impact to the degree of other conferences, with college football expansion shifting the landscape daily.
Michigan Defeats Illinois With Late Field Goal to Remain Unbeaten
The elephant in the room is the sense that the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and Big Ten are eyeing several teams in the ACC for additional expansion beyond 2024. Clemson, Miami, North Carolina and Florida State are options to depart the ACC.
All hope is not lost for ACC fans, as the conference has an air-tight contract, and it will be difficult, albeit not impossible, for teams to exit. At least for now, the ACC remains on sturdy ground. Let's look closer at what we expect during the ACC Football Kickoff.
When is the ACC Football Kickoff?
For the first time, the ACC has expanded its annual ACC Football Kickoff to a three-day event from July 25-27. The event takes place at The Westin, located in Charlotte, North Carolina. The event will be covered live by the ACC Network. Jim Phillips, ACC commissioner said:...
ACC college football preview: Odds to win conference, win totals and predictions (fansided.com; Wallach)
The ACC didn't send a team to the College Football Playoff for the second straight season, but it was a familiar face at the top despite falling short of its lofty goals in Clemson.
The Tigers have won eight ACC Championships since 2011 and will look to make it a ninth, but the rest of the conference should be far improved with Florida State set to field its most formidable roster in several years around Heisman Trophy contender Jordan Travis and future first round pass rusher Jared Verse.
There's a crowded middle of the conference below those two contenders, including Drake Maye and North Carolina as well as a host of transfer quarterbacks like Brenan Armstrong at North Carolina State and Phil Jurkovec at Pittsburgh after transferring within the conference.
Here are all the odds and our take on who will win the ACC in 2023.
ACC Win Totals
- Boston College: 5.5 (Over -120/Under +100)
- Clemson: 10 (Over +105/Under -125)
- Duke: 6.5 (Over +130/Under -150)
- Florida State: 10 (Over +110/Under -130)
- Georgia Tech: 4.5 (Over +120/Under -140)
- Louisville: 8 (Over -110/Under -110)
- Miami (Florida): 7.5 (Over +120/Under -140)
- North Carolina State: 6.5 (Over -145/Under +125)
- North Carolina: 8.5 (Over -110/Under -110)
- Pittsburgh: 7 (Over -120/Under +100)
- Syracuse: 6.5 (Over -105/Under -115)
- Virginia: 3.5 (Over -105/Under -115)
- Virginia Tech: 5.5 (Over +120/Under -145)
- Wake Forest: 6 (Over -120/Under +100)
Friedlander: Which ACC football players are bringing in the most NIL money? - Saturday Road (saturdayroad.com; Friedlander)
There’s nothing new about college athletes receiving large amounts of cash for their services.
It’s been going on almost as long as there has been college sports.
The only difference is that it’s legal thanks to NCAA legislation allowing “student-athletes” to be compensated for the use of their name, image and likeness.
It’s a change whose consequences have been good and bad.
Good in that the athletes are enjoying some of the pie and now have a sound financial reason to stay in school longer rather than gamble on entering the respective sports’ draft before they’re ready.
And that the compensation they’re getting is now (almost) all out in the open.
Bad in that an already uneven playing field has gotten even more uneven thanks to NIL rules that vary from state-to-state, conference-to-conference and even school-to-school.
As is the case with just about everything else when it comes to finances, the ACC is lagging behind the other Power 5 conferences in NIL compensation. According to figures published last week by Opendorse, the conference ranks 5th behind the Big 12, Big Ten, Pac-12 and SEC.
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ACC's Best Returning Quarterbacks for 2023 (lastwordonsports.com; Siragusa)
Garrett Shrader laughs at rating Van Dyke and Klubick higher than him...
Last Word on College Football continues its off-season look at the best-returning players, by position, by conference. The college football world heads into conference media days starting this week (Big 12), with training camps just a couple of weeks away. So who are the best-returning players in the ACC? Today we turn to the ACC’s best-returning quarterbacks for 2023.
To qualify for the list, you must be returning from within the conference. Transferring from one school to another works, as long as it is within the conference. Quarterbacks who transfer in from another conference are not considered for the purposes of this list.
ACC’s Best Returning Quarterbacks for 2023
5. Tyler Van Dyke; Miami
Van Dyke enters his third year as a starter for the Hurricanes. He had nine starts in 2021 and was the ACC Rookie of the Year, with nearly 3,000 yards passing to go with 25 touchdowns and six interceptions. He missed three games due to injury in 2022, and his production in his nine starts was a significant drop-off from his freshman year. He still completed 63% of his passes but had only 1,835 yards passing. His yards per completion dropped by a full two yards. He also fell to only 10 touchdowns against five interceptions.The Hurricanes fell to 3-6 in his nine starts last year, (5-7 overall). Head coach Mario Cristobol is also moving on to a new offensive coordinator. Shannon Dawson is replacing Josh Gattis and will be Van Dyke’s third offensive coordinator in his three years.
4. Cade Klubnik; Clemson
We are crazy to put a guy with one career start at the number four spot, right? Well, yes, in fact, we are. Yet here he is.Clemson fans could not wait for D.J. Uiagalelei to falter last season because they were insanely eager for Klubnik to get his shot. He threw all of 22 passes in the regular season but made headlines in leading the Tigers to a dramatic come-from-behind win against Syracuse, coming in for Uiagalelei. The win was the thing, not the stats. He was two of four for 19 yards, (including an 18-yard pass). But it was his readiness to run the offense that stood out.
It was the potential he showed in the ACC championship game and the Orange Bowl that puts him here. He was 20 of 24 for 279 yards and a touchdown against North Carolina in the conference title game. He also had 30 yards on the ground and a rushing touchdown in leading Clemson to a 39-10 trouncing of the Tar Heels. In the bowl game, he was 30 of 54 for 320 yards in the loss to Tennessee. He has two big upsides this year. He will be playing for an innovative new offensive coordinator in Garrett Riley. And there will be no debating who QB1 is. Klubnik has to play big for Clemson to hit its college football playoff potential.
3. Riley Leonard; Duke
Not enough of the college football world knows about the second-year quarterback in Durham. Fortunately, we saw it firsthand last year. He was impressive enough that we tinkered with the number two spot on this list. We want to see it again and against a tough schedule.With Leonard running the Blue Devils offense, Duke went from 3-9 to 9-4 in one year. It does come with a bit of an asterisk. The nine wins came against teams that went a combined 35-61 during the year. But that does not diminish the freshman campaign for Leonard. He threw for just a tick under 3,000 yards. He had 20 touchdown passes against six interceptions. His marquee performance was against Wake Forest. He went 29 of 41 (70% completion rate), for 391 yards, four touchdown passes, and one interception.
Beyond the passing numbers, he led all ACC quarterbacks in rushing, with 699 yards and 13 touchdowns. Duke averaged 32.8 points per game with Leonard running the offense. And he has all of his top receivers back for the 2023 season as well as one of the best offensive linemen in the conference.
2. Drake Maye; North Carolina
The redshirt freshman was one of the most talked about quarterbacks in the country for part of the 2022 season. The question for him in 2023 will be maintaining the play for the entire season.The Tar Heels won nine of their first 10 games. But then they lost their final four of the season including the conference championship game and the Holiday Bowl to Oregon. Maye averaged 308 yards passing per game last season, good for 4,300+ yards, and 38 touchdowns. In those four losses at the end of the season, the yards per game dropped to 227. He stepped up big against Wake Forest with 448 yards passing and three touchdowns.
He will be running the offense under a new coordinator. Chip Lindsey replaces Phil Longo who is now at Wisconsin. And he loses all-conference receiver Josh Downs to the NFL. But the Tar Heels return a lot of starters on the offensive line. The Tar Heels have Clemson on the road this season, a game that can be a real showcase for a potential Heisman campaign for Maye.
1. Jordan Travis; Florida State
Florida State is a contender for the ACC title game. That is if Travis lives up to the lofty expectations.Travis started all 13 games for the Seminoles last season. He threw for more than 3,200 yards with 24 touchdowns against only five interceptions. With a 64% completion rate and a 160-passer rating, he was the ACC’s highest-rated passer, just getting by Wake Forest’s Sam Hartman. He added another 417 yards rushing, leading the conference with a nine-yard per run average.
Links, News and Rumors 2023 July 12 (RX; HM)
Links, News and Rumors 2023 July 12
According to SaturdayBlitz, here are the "Top 10 non-conference ACC Football games in 2023"
- LSU vs. Florida State (in Orlando, FL)
- Notre Dame at Clemson
- Texas A&M at Miami
- Pitt at West Virginia
- Clemson at South Carolina
- Pitt at Notre Dame
- Minnesota at North Carolina
- Kentucky at Louisville
- Florida State at Florida
- North Carolina vs. South Carolina (in Charlotte, NC)
Which teams are expected to have the best defenses this year?
ACC teams in the Top 50:
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NYC 2023 (RX; HM)
NYC 2023
The ACC has been in a fight with the Big Ten for the heart and fandom of New York City for many years now (see "Battle: NYC" posted here on July 9th, 2013). How are things going in 2023?
College Football
There's only one neutral site college football game scheduled for the Big Apple this season:Next year, the only one I see is Notre Dame vs Navy in the Meadowlands. Of course, the ACC and Big Ten also have a bowl game - against each other - in the Big Apple:
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Other
The latest forecast from NASA shows that the northern lights are unlikely to reach as far south as Upstate New York.
So about those Northern Lights being visible in Upstate NY this week... (PS; Coin)
Don’t pack up the kids and head north on Wednesday hoping to catch a glimpse of the Northern Lights in Upstate New York.
The internet was abuzz this week about forecasts showing that the Northern Lights could be visible as far south as Maryland. But NASA and meteorologists now say the glowing lights are almost certainly not going to be seen that far south.
“The chances this week [of seeing the Northern Lights] are slim at latitudes such as Maryland,” Bill Murtagh, the program coordinator at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center, told The Washington Post. “In northern-tier states, you might see a glow on the horizon.”
Veteran Buffalo meteorologist Don Paul tweeted today that the possibility of Northern Lights in Upstate New York had been “overblown in some of the media” reports on Monday.
“First of all, Northern Lights forecasts issued days in advance have a poor track record at best,” Paul said. “Secondly, cloud cover would likely be a problem locally.”
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Rowan Blanchard appears in a scene from "Crush," a 2022 American High movie filmed in the Syracuse area. (Photo by: Brett Roedel/Hulu)
American High to host movie ‘watch party’ with food trucks in Liverpool (PS; $; Herbert)
Want to see a little bit of Central New York on the big screen?
American High is inviting the public to a special movie screening and “watch party” this Friday, July 14, at its headquarters, also known as Syracuse Studios in Liverpool, N.Y. The fun begins at 7 p.m. with food trucks outside the building (the former A.V. Zogg Middle School and Liverpool high school) located at 800 4th Street in Liverpool.
“Crush,” which was filmed in the Syracuse area by American High, will be shown on the big screen in the auditorium starting at 8 p.m. Attendees may bring food from the food trucks inside for the event.
People interested in attending can RSVP online at this Google Doc or via americanhigh | Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok | Linktree.
A $5 donation is suggested, but not required, for attendees. Donations go to The Academy at American High, its 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and trade school.
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