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Welcome to National Independent Beer Run Day!
Coming the day before Independence Day, National Independent Beer Run Day celebrates another kind of independence: independent craft beer. It "calls on beer lovers to seek the independent craft brewer seal and purchase craft beers produced by small and independent breweries for their Independence Day festivities." According to Julia Herz, the craft beer program director of the Brewers Association, the organization that founded the day, "Our libations and the liberation we're celebrating should go hand in hand. As you plan for this Fourth of July, think independent and drink independent."
The Brewers Association is a "not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers, their beers and the community of brewing enthusiasts." Not only is it behind National Independent Beer Run Day, but it also is behind Small Brewery Sunday and American Craft Beer Week. For the first National Independent Beer Run Day, the association produced videos, audio spots, and "summer-themed sponsored playlists." They also attempted the longest cheers ever, where they toasted all 7,300 small and independent craft breweries in the United States.
SU News
Only 1 school has more commits in '25 class. Why is SU football taking so many recruits? (PS; $; Carlson)
The Syracuse football program has 27 verbal commitments in the Class of 2025, the second-most in the country trailing only Rutgers.
In recent years, that large number of commitments would mean the Orange was finished with recruiting. Until a rule change in 2023, schools were limited to taking 25 new players in a single year. The limit was changed, in part because schools needed to be able to accept and replace transfers.
While Syracuse doesn’t necessarily need to stop recruiting in the Class of 2025, the Orange already appears to be facing a numbers crunch. Each additional high school commitment, or added transfer, could mean one more player on the 2024 roster will be gone the following year.
Syracuse has 17 seniors on its roster. Those are the players who would traditionally be expected to run out of college eligibility and create space for the 2025 recruiting class.
In addition to departing seniors, there are juniors who can declare early the NFL draft, including tight end/receiver Oronde Gadsden II and running back LeQuint Allen. Other players may decide to pursue a graduate degree or a better shot at playing time elsewhere.
For now, the math doesn’t add up to the 85-player scholarship cap imposed by the NCAA. Syracuse doesn’t have the space to take 27 high school recruits without anticipating a measure of changes later this year.
Brian Dohn, a national college football recruiting analyst with 247Sports, suggested multiple reasons why Syracuse has accepted verbal commitments from such a substantial number of recruits.
They are:
- Recruits committing earlier in their careers.
- Efforts by Fran Brown and his staff to overhaul the roster.
- An uncertainty around roster sizes starting in 2025.
Brown came to Syracuse with a strong reputation for recruiting. His first recruiting class, put together in a span of months, was ranked higher than any group the school has brought in during the recruiting rankings era. His second recruiting class is positioned similarly.
Dohn praised Brown’s early efforts and said Syracuse’s new coach prioritizes physical traits more than some other coaches in recruiting.
“I’ve known Fran dating back to his time at Baylor and he’s a traits guy,” Dohn said. “If you have a kid who is going to put up good track times and maybe his tape isn’t what he wants, or he’s a big-time wrestler or a thrower, he might take a chance on those guys.”
Still, Syracuse will need to free up some space to take those chances.
Transfers will likely be a big part of creating space. Some talented players might decide to head toward other programs like Duce Chestnut and Ja’Had Carter did two years ago. Some players might not mesh well with a new coaching staff. Some might look at the depth chart after spending a season with Brown and decide the potential for playing time is better somewhere else.
“You need to protect yourself from transfers and people need to realize that transfers work both ways,” Dohn said. “Kids that you want (to keep) will leave your program. And kids that you don’t want (to keep) will leave your program.”
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3-star WR from Florida names Syracuse football to top 4, sets commitment date (PS; $; Leiker)
A 3-star wide receiver from Orlando, Florida, has set plans for his commitment.
Isaiah Mizell announced a top 4 of Syracuse football, Kansas State, Arizona and Georgia Tech on Monday night via his social media. He will announce his commitment July 10.
Mizell (6-foot, 160 pounds) visited all four programs this summer. He came to the Salt City on May 31.
According to the 247Sports Composite, Mizell is the No. 128 player from Florida and No. 159 wide receiver in the Class of 2025.
He plays for Boone High School, where he led his team in receiving yards (1,057 yards) and touchdowns (22) as a junior with 49 catches, according to the team’s MaxPreps page.
Mizell comes from an athletic family: His brother, Aidan Mizell, is a current wide receiver at Florida, where both his parents attended and competed in track and field. Mizell also played soccer growing up, according to his 247Sports bio, and runs track for Boone. He holds the team’s top marks in the 100-meter, 200m and 400m, according to TFRRS.
Syracuse has 26 verbal commitments to its Class of 2025 currently. At least five could play wide receiver collegiately.
The Orange are also eyeing another potential commitment on July 5, when three-star defensive lineman Elijah Crawford will choose between SU, Rutgers and West Virginia.
Syracuse football earns commitment from Top 10 long snapper in Class of 2025 (PS; Leiker)
Syracuse football added a highly-touted recruit at a special position to its Class of 2025 Tuesday afternoon.
Henry Searcy, a long snapper from Tallahassee, Florida, announced his commitment via social media. He’s a five-star and the No. 8 long snapper in the country, according to Kohl’s Kicking.
“Searcy snaps one of the tightest rotating footballs in the country regardless of class,” an official comment on his Kohl’s profile reads.
Searcy (6-foot-3, 180 pounds) plays for Lawton Chiles High School. The team finished 6-4 last season.
He’s the first special teams addition in the Orange’s 2025 class, which now has verbal commitments from 27 players.
Syracuse currently rosters two long snappers: redshirt senior Tom Callahan, and redshirt sophomore Ethan Stangle.
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(youtube; podcast; Orange Zone)
Who are the receivers and tight ends set to make an impact for Cuse Football in 2024? Tommy Sladek and Ashley Wenskoski preview the WR's & TE's.Oronde Gadsden II, Dan Villari, Zeed Haynes, Jackson Meeks, Umari Hatcher, Jamie Tremble, Trebor Pena, Darrell Gill Jr., the list goes on!
Keeping Up With The 315 7-2-24 (soundcloud.com; radio; The 315)
Brian begins the show talking the latest FRAN BROWN recruiting news and reacting to some ESPN projections on the Syracuse football season. Then, he gives you an update on some Olympic athletes who will be representing Syracuse. Lastly, his take on the US Men's Soccer loss last night.
Easiest Schedules in College Football | Syracuse (youtube; podcast; The Redshirt Sophomore)
MD and CD break down Syracuse's schedule and why it may be the easiest in the ACC.
Syracuse football 2024 opponent preview: UNLV Rebels (TNIAAM; Ostrowski)
We’re through the first third of our Syracuse Orange football opponent preview series. With the stage properly set for four Dome games, finished against FCS offering Holy Cross, SU now enters the “prove-it” portion of the campaign. This next opponent is the first of three road games in a row and five out of the next six away from their fans.
Kicking off the second Hunt for Orange October is a team that showed tons of upside in what ended up as the most-successful season in program history:
UNLV Rebels
School: The University of Nevada - Las VegasNickname: Rebels
Mascot: None - Hey Reb! retired in 2021
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Recommended Blog: Mountain West Connection
Conference: Mountain West
History vs. Syracuse: There’s a first time for everything, right? If it wasn’t for some late schedule adjustments, the Rebels and Orange would have remained winless against each another. That will change for one of them in the programs’ first ever meeting this fall.
Coach: Barry Odom, second season. Odom has spent the bulk of his coaching career with Missouri - after lettering all four years there as a linebacker, he came back to his alma mater and joined their staff in 2003. Odom worked his way up the defensive hierarchy, and after a brief departure for Memphis, he returned a second time to be their defensive coordinator. After just one year in that position, he was promoted to head coach in 2016. The Tigers played .500 ball over four seasons, causing him to depart for Arkansas to coach their safeties. UNLV hired him prior to the 2023 campaign.
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Get to Know Your Orange Man: #31, RB Tyler Chandler (TNIAAM; Wall)
It’s time to start preparing for the 2024 Syracuse Orange football season. We’re going through the roster to take a look at each Syracuse player as we get to know a lot of new faces to kick off the Fran Brown Era.
Next up is...
Name: Tyler Chandler
Position: Running Back
Year: Redshirt Freshman
Height: 5’8”
Weight: 170 lbs.
Hometown: Plantation, FL
High School: St. Thomas Aquinas
2023 stats: Redshirt season
2024 projections: Like we’ve said about a lot of the walk-ons, we don’t know exactly how Fran Brown will deploy them during the season. If the special teams units comprise more starters, it will be harder for players like Chandler to see a lot of game action this season.
How’d he get here?: Accepted a preferred walk-on opportunity from the Orange
What’d recruiting sites say?: No rankings
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In Memoriam: Life Trustee H. John Riley Jr. ’61 (syr.edu; Korey)
On his journey from his first job in a corporate mailroom to the executive suite, H. John Riley Jr. ’61 often credited the education and opportunities he received at Syracuse University for his success. His gratitude shaped his approach to both service and philanthropy at his alma mater. Riley was still serving as a life trustee and co-chair of the Forever Orange Campaign and its $1.5 billion goal when he passed away on June 1, 2024, at the age of 83.
“John was incredibly thoughtful and generous in all things, including his support for Syracuse University,” says Chancellor Kent Syverud. “John was committed to ensuring meaningful student experiences—in and out of the classroom—were accessible to all Syracuse students. His philanthropy opened doors and carved paths of opportunity for engineering students to succeed in the business world, just as he had over his lifetime.”
The 2017 endowed gift from John and Diane Riley establishing the H. John Riley Dual Degree Engineering/MBA Program was designed to give Syracuse University students the opportunity to set themselves apart. Earning a bachelor’s degree in engineering along with an MBA in five years prepares students to make an immediate impact.
“John recognized that successful business executives understand multiple disciplines and that it was important for students to have both theoretical and experiential learning in interdisciplinary ways of thinking,” says J. Cole Smith, dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS). Since the dual degree program’s inception, it has drawn high-achieving students to both ECS and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management and helped carve a path that was so important to Riley’s own career success.
Riley was the first in his family to go to college, an opportunity made possible with a scholarship from The Gifford Foundation. He was only 16 when he graduated as valedictorian from his high school. After four years of riding the bus from his parent’s home on Syracuse’s North Side to campus and back, Riley earned a degree in industrial engineering. During college, he worked in the mail room of Crouse-Hinds, the electrical products manufacturing company that Riley once described as a “kind of family affair.” His father, three sisters and brother all worked there for a time.
Shortly after graduation, Riley entered a training program at General Electric, but eventually returned to Crouse-Hinds where he rose through the ranks, given more executive responsibilities as the company grew and acquired other firms. Riley, who also completed Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program, eventually became the CEO of Cooper Industries, the multi-billion-dollar parent of Crouse-Hinds. The Riley family moved to Houston, Texas, where Cooper was headquartered.
Still, the loyal alumnus never left Syracuse University far behind. Riley was first elected to the Board of Trustees in 2004 and served as a voting trustee until 2016. He served on the Audit and Risk and Student Experience Committees and chaired the Student Experience Committee from 2008-2012. He also served as a lifetime member of the Whitman Advisory Council. In 2019, he was recognized with the Dritz Life Trustee Award. When he died he was serving as tri-chair of the National Campaign Executive Committee for the Forever Orange Campaign, alongside trustees Patricia Mautino ’64, G’66, and Michael Thonis ’72.
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ACC News
ACC 2024 preview: Can newcomers challenge Florida State and Clemson? (ESPN; Connelly)
Thank goodness actual football is starting soon. No offense to the good folks of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but when lawsuits and countersuits are the primary storyline of your offseason, well, you haven't had a very enjoyable offseason. (I think there's an "Affidavits and Contracts Conference" joke in here somewhere, but I won't make it, even though there's almost nothing Atlantic about this place now.)
Everything about the ACC feels weird right now, from big football programs plotting to leave, to teams from Texas and California joining, to the simple existence of a conference with 17 teams and games like Stanford at Syracuse, Boston College at SMU and Cal at Wake Forest. The variation in schedule strengths -- Georgia Tech ranks 15th in projected SP+ SOS, five other teams rank in the top 40, and four others rank outside the top 70 -- makes this only loosely feel like a conference. But when the games actually start, we'll have a potentially stellar race on our hands all the same. Florida State and Clemson, the standout escape plotters (and winners of 12 of the past 13 ACC championships), start out in the front of the race, but five teams are projected between 19th and 32nd in SP+ and loom not far behind.
Let's preview the ACC!
Every week through the summer, Bill Connelly will preview another FBS conference exclusively for ESPN+, ultimately including all 134 FBS teams. The previews will include 2023 breakdowns, 2024 previews and team-by-team capsules. Here are the MAC, Conference USA, AAC, MWC and Sun Belt previews.
2023 recap
| TEAM | REC. (CONF) | SP+ RK | OFF. SP+ | DEF. SP+ | ST SP+ |
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| Florida St. (ACC) | 13-1 (9-0) | 19.4 (9) | 34.1 (23) | 16.5 (9) | 1.8 (8) |
| Clemson (ACC) | 9-4 (4-4) | 10.5 (23) | 29.3 (51) | 19.0 (21) | 0.2 (66) |
| SMU (AAC) | 11-3 (9-0) | 10.1 (24) | 34.1 (22) | 23.0 (39) | -1.1 (98) |
| Miami (ACC) | 7-6 (3-5) | 9.6 (28) | 30.7 (41) | 23.1 (40) | 1.9 (3) |
| Duke (ACC) | 8-5 (4-4) | 9.4 (30) | 27.3 (63) | 19.5 (25) | 1.5 (18) |
| Louisville (ACC) | 10-4 (7-2) | 8.0 (34) | 30.1 (46) | 22.3 (36) | 0.2 (64) |
| NC St. (ACC) | 9-4 (6-2) | 7.4 (39) | 25.5 (73) | 19.7 (26) | 1.6 (15) |
| N. Carolina (ACC) | 8-5 (4-4) | 7.4 (40) | 34.4 (21) | 27.8 (78) | 0.8 (46) |
| Va. Tech (ACC) | 7-6 (5-3) | 5.8 (46) | 27.5 (62) | 23.3 (42) | 1.7 (14) |
| Ga. Tech (ACC) | 7-6 (5-3) | 0.3 (65) | 29.4 (50) | 29.1 (86) | 0.1 (68) |
| California (Pac-12) | 6-7 (4-5) | -0.1 (67) | 30.6 (43) | 28.7 (84) | -2.0 (128) |
| Syracuse (ACC) | 6-7 (2-6) | -4.4 (80) | 22.2 (88) | 26.1 (61) | -0.5 (85) |
| Boston Coll. (ACC) | 7-6 (3-5) | -5.9 (83) | 22.2 (87) | 27.6 (77) | -0.5 (83) |
| Pittsburgh (ACC) | 3-9 (2-6) | -7.3 (91) | 19.3 (108) | 26.0 (59) | -0.6 (87) |
| Wake Forest (ACC) | 4-8 (1-7) | -7.9 (96) | 20.2 (102) | 26.9 (68) | -1.2 (102) |
| Virginia (ACC) | 3-9 (2-6) | -10.8 (105) | 21.0 (98) | 31.7 (99) | -0.1 (70) |
| Stanford (Pac-12) | 3-9 (2-7) | -11.9 (108) | 21.4 (95) | 34.5 (116) | 1.1 (36) |
Elsewhere, Louisville secured its first ACC championship game appearance thanks to a 4-0 record in one-score finishes in conference games, but Jeff Brohm's Cardinals were among a large batch of similar teams. Including SMU -- which, like FSU, dealt with its own late-season QB injury issues -- seven current ACC teams finished between 23rd and 40th in SP+. And that doesn't include a Virginia Tech team that enjoyed a massive midseason turnaround. After starting the season 2-4 and ranking as low as 76th in SP+, Brent Pry's Hokies won five of their last seven, overachieved projections by an average of 14.7 points per game and charged to 46th. And now they rank in the nation's top five in returning production.
Meanwhile, the other new additions, Cal and Stanford, were basically West Coast Georgia Tech and West Coast Virginia.
2024 projections
| TEAM | SP+ (RK) | OFF. | DEF. | AVG. W | CONF. W | SOS RK |
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| Florida St. | 21.4 (12) | 36.9 (16) | 15.5 (10) | 9.3 | 6.2 | 32 |
| Clemson | 19.8 (14) | 37.0 (15) | 17.1 (13) | 9.1 | 6.3 | 30 |
| Miami | 14.4 (19) | 36.9 (18) | 22.5 (36) | 8.8 | 5.5 | 62 |
| SMU | 12.9 (23) | 36.3 (22) | 23.4 (39) | 9.1 | 5.6 | 84 |
| Louisville | 10.8 (28) | 29.6 (57) | 18.9 (23) | 7.6 | 5.2 | 40 |
| NC St. | 10.6 (29) | 29.7 (56) | 19.1 (25) | 8.5 | 5.4 | 65 |
| Va. Tech | 9.7 (32) | 31.5 (42) | 21.7 (33) | 8.4 | 5.1 | 82 |
| Duke | 4.6 (47) | 26.5 (70) | 21.9 (34) | 6.7 | 3.3 | 54 |
| N. Carolina | 3.8 (50) | 32.1 (36) | 28.3 (65) | 7.2 | 4.3 | 74 |
| California | 1.9 (52) | 32.6 (34) | 30.7 (88) | 6.1 | 3.5 | 49 |
| Ga. Tech | -0.6 (63) | 32.5 (35) | 33.2 (99) | 4.2 | 2.3 | 15 |
| Syracuse | -0.9 (64) | 25.7 (73) | 26.6 (54) | 6.2 | 3.4 | 90 |
| Boston Coll. | -3.8 (75) | 25.2 (77) | 29.1 (72) | 4.6 | 2.5 | 38 |
| Virginia | -4.5 (77) | 25.5 (75) | 29.9 (81) | 4.1 | 2.5 | 42 |
| Wake Forest | -4.5 (78) | 23.0 (86) | 27.4 (59) | 4.7 | 2.4 | 44 |
| Pittsburgh | -4.8 (81) | 21.5 (97) | 26.4 (53) | 4.6 | 2.5 | 64 |
| Stanford | -5.6 (84) | 26.0 (71) | 31.6 (94) | 3.8 | 2.0 | 33 |
ESPN Projects Pitt as Second Worst ACC Team in 2024 (pittsburghsportsnow.com; Ludwig)
ESPN does not envision a very good season for Pat Narduzzi and the Pitt Panthers.
Pitt is 81st in the SP+ (-4.8) — which, according to Bill Connolly of ESPN, is a tempo- and opponent-adjusted measure of college football efficiency. It is a predictive measure of the most sustainable and predictable aspects of football, not a résumé ranking, and along those lines, these projections aren’t intended to be a guess at what the AP Top 25 will look like at the end of the season. — and is projected just 4.6 wins (2.5 ACC) in 2024.
The -4.8 SP+ is only ahead of newcomer Stanford, good for 16th in the conference.
The offensive rating from ESPN of 21.5 is 97th in the FBS, which is last in the conference, and the defensive rating of 26.4 in 53rd in the FBS, which is ninth in the conference. The Panthers have a strength of schedule rank of 64th.
ESPN gives Pitt a 0.3% chance to win the ACC, a 0% chance to reach 11 wins and a 27.1% chance to reach bowl eligibility. Pitt is likely hurt by a loss of returning production, just 57.1% of offensive production and 53.8% of defensive production. But in the same vein, it was production that led to a 3-9 campaign.
Connolly also named his favorite Pitt player, Jimmy Scott, writing:
“Pitt doesn’t have much in the “proven stars” department, so let’s go with a small-sample all-star,” Connolly wrote. “As a redshirt freshman, Scott saw increased playing time in November and immediately started making plays. He ended up with 2.5 TFLs, four run stops and three pass pressures in just 102 snaps. Project that over a larger sample, and you’ve got a potential star. Pitt needs a few of them.”
Scott is an intriguing character, but he’s certainly an interesting choice. It’s not guaranteed that he cracks the defensive end rotation at this point, although he likely will.
The Pitt season will largely hinge on whether there’s solid quarterback play. Nate Yarnell is entering the summer as the starting quarterback, putting together a strong spring. He will continue to be challenged by Eli Holstein, but it’s his job to lose. And he has a Rodney Hammond Jr., Konata Mumpfield, Kenny Johnson and Gavin Bartholomew.
It remains to be seen whether Bell’s new offense will immediately translate, but if Yarnell is able to play serviceable football, it should go a long way in 2024.
The defense did suffer significant losses, but the positions of need have been bolstered through the transfer portal and a few areas defensively are entering the summer with a significant amount of depth. The defensive line and cornerback are still areas of concern, but the portal arrivals will likely be key members of both units. And the linebackers and safeties are clear areas of strength.
It will likely come down to whether or not the offense can take a step up from where it was last season.
Official ACC Welcome 2024 (RX; HM)
Official ACC Welcome 2024
From the official ACC release of Monday, July 1, 2024...
ACC Officially Welcomes Cal, SMU and Stanford to the League
All three institutions will begin league competition this fall
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference continues to ACCOMPLISH GREATNESS with the addition of three world-class institutions in the University of California, Berkeley (Cal), Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Stanford University as full members with full voting participation. SMU’s first official day in the ACC is July 1, 2024, while Cal and Stanford will become official members on August 2, 2024. All three institutions will begin conference competition this fall.
The additions of Cal, SMU and Stanford enhance and strengthen the ACC academically, athletically and financially as well as create a true national conference that spans coast to coast. The incoming universities enrich the league’s competitiveness in all sports and further demonstrate the ACC’s commitment to broad-based programs for both women and men. More than 2,200 student-athletes from Cal, SMU and Stanford will join the nearly 10,000 current ACC student-athletes competing at the highest level of intercollegiate athletics.
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Top WR Units for 2024 (RX; HM)
Top WR Units for 2024
From Phil Steele, via On3: Top 25 Wide Receiver Unit Rankings ahead of 2024 college football season
Phil Steele’s full ranking of the top-25 receiving units:
1. Oregon2. Missouri
3. Ohio State
4. Ole Miss
5. USC
6. Oklahoma
7. Colorado
8. SMU
9. Louisville
10. Notre Dame
WR rankings 11-25
11. Miami12. LSU
13. TCU
14. North Carolina
15. Tennessee
16. Georgia
17. Utah
18. UCF
19. Texas
20. Arizona
21. Florida
22. Kentucky
23. Florida State
24. Texas A&M
25. Memphis
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Comment: This year the ACC probably has better WRs top-to-bottom than it has had in some years.
2024 ACCN School Takeovers (RX; HM)
2024 ACCN School Takeovers
ACC Network to Highlight all 15 2023-24 ACC Programs with Dedicated School Takeovers, July 5-19
ACC Network (ACCN), the 24/7 national platform dedicated to ACC sports, will present 15 consecutive days of programming dedicated to each ACC member institution from the 2023-24 school year, July 5-19. The 24-hour takeovers will showcase some of the best games and greatest moments from the season for each ACC program.
ACC Network School Takeovers will showcase instant classics and memorable performances starting at 12 a.m. ET each day. Some of the highlights fans can look forward to include replays of the national championships won by Boston College (women’s lacrosse), Clemson (men’s soccer), Florida State (women’s soccer), North Carolina (field hockey) and Notre Dame (men’s lacrosse). Other highlights include ACC Championships, regular season showdowns, spring football, ACC Network original programming and more.
Follow ACCN on X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook for additional coverage and complementary content throughout the 15 days of school takeovers.
Each school’s appointed date and select takeover programming highlights can be found below:
2024 ACC Network Takeover Schedule
Fri, July 5 - Boston College
11:00 am Football win over SMU5:00 pm Women's lacrosse National Championship game
Sat, July 6 - Clemson
5:00 pm Men's soccer national championship game10:00 pm Men's basketball win at North Carolina
Sun, July 7 - Duke
1:30 pm ACC Baseball Championship title game4:30 pm ACC Softball Championship title game
Mon, July 8- Florida State
10:00 am Women's soccer national championship game7:00 pm Football win at Clemson
Tue, July 9 - Georgia Tech
10:00 am Football win over UCF3:00 pm Men's Basketball win over North Carolina
Wed, July 10 - Louisville
7:00 pm Women's volleyball win over Penn State9:00 pm Football win over Notre Dame
Thu, July 11 - Miami
3:00 pm Women's basketball win over NC State9:00 pm Football win over Clemson
Fri, July 12 - North Carolina
1:30 pm Baseball win over LSU4:30 pm Field Hockey National Championship game
Sat, July 13 - NC State
1:00 pm ACC Gymnastics Championship10:00 pm ACC Men's Basketball Championship game
Sun, July 14 - Notre Dame
3:00 pm ACC Women's Basketball Championship game7:00 pm Men's Lacrosse National Championship game
Mon, July 15 - Pitt
5:00 pm Men's basketball win at Duke7:00 pm NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship Regional round
Tue, July 16 - Syracuse
9:00 am Men's lacrosse win over Virginia7:00 pm Men's Basketball win over North Carolina
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EADA 2022-23 Spending on Money Sports (RX; HM)
EADA 2022-23 Spending on Money Sports
Football 'drives the bus' and 'the big dogs eat'. So, which ACC schools 'put their money where their mouth is', so to speak? Put another way, who invests in football (and basketball), and who throws their money away on non-revenue sports?
Biggest Investors in the Money Sports
The following table and chart shows how much each school spent on football and basketball in 2022-23, according to EADA data, with the 3 newest schools in bold:| School | FB | MBB | Combined |
| Florida State | 77 | 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||...... |
| Miami | 74 | 22 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||...... |
| Notre Dame | 72 | 21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||...... |
| Clemson | 58 | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||... |
| Duke | 39 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||...... |
| Pittsburgh | 45 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||.... |
| North Carolina | 44 | 17 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||... |
| Louisville | 33 | 25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||....... |
| Virginia Tech | 39 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||... |
| Syracuse | 27 | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||.... |
| California | 38 | 14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||... |
| Georgia Tech | 36 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||... |
Clemson uses South Carolina Rivalry in Latest Allegations Against ACC (theclemsoninsider.com; Vandervolt)
Things are starting to get a little ugly in the Clemson vs. ACC lawsuits.
On Tuesday, a North Carolina judge decided he will make a written ruling on Clemson’s motion to the North Carolina court to throw out the ACC’s countersuit against the university. On Monday, Clemson filed a memorandum in opposition to the ACC’s motion to dismiss the university’s lawsuit against the conference in the state of South Carolina.
Clemson University filed the memorandum electronically with the Pickens County Court, where these documents are available to the public. Clemson filed the opposition to the motion to dismiss to show Pickens County has jurisdiction over the ACC because the ACC has done business in South Carolina, so the South Carolina based court is the proper venue for the proceedings.
Clemson, of course, sued the league on March 19 as it joined Florida State in challenging the conference’s Grant of Rights Agreement and $130 million exit fee.
Here is where things are starting to get ugly. In Clemson’s latest filing, it is hoping to prove the ACC indeed does business in the state of South Carolina and is going to prove it by using its football rivalry with the South Carolina Gamecocks.
To make its argument, Clemson filed an affidavit from athletic director Graham Neff, in which he shared a recent email from the ACC to him regarding the conference, on behalf of ESPN, requesting Clemson to move its Nov. 30 home game against South Carolina to the Friday night before (Nov. 29).
In Neff’s affidavit, he gives several examples in which the ACC has come to Clemson and conducted business. In the motion, located on pages 7 and 8, it “clearly establishes the ACC purposely availed itself of South Carolina by at least two forms of contact related to Clemson’s claims: (1) by negotiating for and entering into contracts with Clemson to be performed partly in Pickens County and (2) by engaging in yearslong activity and reaping material benefits from South Carolina pursuant to those contracts. These contacts are related to Clemson’s claims, and this Court has the power to exercise specific jurisdiction over the ACC.”
Below is the email Neff submitted to the court as part of his affidavit. The email was dated May 7, 2024, and is from ACC Senior Associate Commissioner for Football Michael Strickland.
In response to Clemson’s motion, the ACC tried to argue that proceedings should be held in the North Carolina courts. However, Clemson is claiming it should not because the ACC did business in South Carolina with Clemson, therefore, the South Carolina courts are where the case should be heard.
Clemson’s motion also shows that ESPN had a presence in South Carolina and Clemson’s claims in South Carolina are different than the ACC’s claims in the North Carolina case.
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Here's Latest info on Clemson vs. ACC Lawsuits (theclemsonsinder.com; Staff)
The Atlantic Coast Conference vs. Clemson lawsuit has adjourned.
Clemson and the ACC met in a Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday in a hearing Clemson was hoping would dismiss the ACC’s countersuit against the university, who sued the league on March 19 as it joined Florida State in challenging the conference’s Grant of Rights Agreement and $130 million exit fee.
The ACC countersued Clemson on March 20.
Clemson later filed a motion to dismiss the ACC’s countersuit against it in the state of North Carolina.
On Tuesday, the State’s Chapel Fowler reported via X.com the North Carolina judge will make a written ruling on the hearing before the Clemson vs. ACC hearing in South Carolina begins on July 12.
“And after a brief case mgt conference, we’re adjourned in ACC vs. Clemson for the day. Judge Bledsoe says his “major task” is getting both parties a ruling on Clemson’s motions to dismiss and stay by July 10 or 11, he hopes. The Clemson vs. ACC hearing in SC is set for July 12.”
Both the ACC and Clemson, according to Fowler, were allowed 30 minutes to present their cases.
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Expansion Big 12 Teams Leaving Next: Utah to Big 10, West Virginia to ACC, UCF to SEC with Texas/OU? (youtube; podcast; Locked on the Big 12; premieres at 8 AM today)
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Expansion Big 12 Teams Leaving Next: Utah to Big 10, West Virginia to ACC, UCF to SEC with Texas/OU?
If West Virginia and Utah left the Big 12, it would create a significant shift in the conference's dynamics and overall structure. The departure of these two programs would impact the Big 12 in terms of competition, geographic reach, and financial stability, while also presenting new opportunities and challenges for both West Virginia and Utah.
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This aerial view of the proposed Micron Technology campus shows the last two homes whose owner, the Serog Living Trust, have not sold their land to Onondaga County. The houses sit at the north end of Burnet Road, which once held dozens of houses that have now been sold to the county and torn down.(N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com)N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com
As Micron project looms, one family stays put on proposed Clay site (PS; $; Coin)
On maps of the planned Micron Technology campus in Clay sits a trio of boxes, outlined in red, straddling the northern end of Burnet Road.
Those three parcels, totaling 22 acres, are the only pieces of land Onondaga County has not gobbled up for Micron to build an enormous chipmaking plant. The county Industrial Development Agency now owns about 1,400 acres of fields, forests and wetlands. (See map below.)
But one family has held on to their land. The Serog Living Trust still owns those three parcels, where the family has lived on Burnet Road for generations. Their properties include two homes and a barn.
The land is also in the middle of Micron’s future campus. The Serog family home and barn stand on the spot where Micron plans to build a wastewater treatment plant for the third of four planned fabrication plants, or fabs.
Negotiations between the Serogs and the county have been on and off for the past few years, and it’s unclear what offers have been made. Britta Serog, who is trustee of the living trust, declined to talk to syracuse.com for this story.
But the county holds all the power, thanks to state law and a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision. Through a legal process called eminent domain, the development agency can seize land and pay fair market value to the owners — and then evict them.
The IDA agency prefers to negotiate with the Serogs, said Bob Petrovich, the agency’s executive director.
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A red Reuben pizza from JD at Danzer's, our 26th stop of the CNY Pizza Tour. (Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)(Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com)
CNY Pizza Tour, stop #26: A well-known German sandwich in Syracuse has become a pizza (PS; $; Miller)
It’s been a year since a roadside pizzeria in Jamesville took over Syracuse’s last-standing German restaurant.
Plenty of fond memories and beloved recipes went out the door when Danzer’s closed for good last February, but a few of the longtime German favorites have found their way onto the Italian menu.
What’s more, one of the area’s most popular sandwiches — the Red Reuben — was resurrected and reconstructed into a pizza.
“The people here, the old customers, really liked that sandwich,” said JD’s owner Satar Mohammadi. “We had tried a regular Reuben pizza at JD’s before we bought Danzer’s, so it only made sense to try the Red Reuben. It’s doing very well.”
The original Danzer’s Big Red Reuben (photographed below) is a slight variation of the original sandwich made of corned beef, Russian dressing, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut. Here they substituted the kraut with red cabbage, smeared Thousand Island dressing across the thing and served it open-faced.
The pizza version isn’t that much different. Instead of rye bread, you get a thin crust. You also get a blend of mozzarella cheeses along with the Swiss.
OK, enough talk. Lass uns essen! (’Let’s eat,’ in German.)
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A Central New York brewery built on a unique concept is closing this summer (PS; Cazentre)
An unusual craft brewery located in a greenhouse that grew its own hops year-round is closing in August after five years in business. The 35-year-old greenhouse / garden center is closing too.
Hot House Brewing at Barone Gardens announced it closing on Facebook Tuesday morning, citing the owners’ decision to retire. The news was posted on the pages related to both the brewery and the greenhouse.
Barone Gardens greenhouse and garden center, operated by John Barone, has been in business at 6200 South Bay Road for 35 years. It began as Barone Farm and Feed in 1989. The Hot House Brewing side of the business opened in April 2019 and later opened a bistro in its tasting room.
The brewery was among the first in New York to grow hops year-round in its own greenhouse.
“We’re probably the first brewery in New York to have wet-hopped beer (made with fresh hops) in March,” brewer Paul Richer, a partner in the brewery with John Barone and his wife, Merry Beth, said at the time of the opening. Tim Parkhurst is also a partner.
The closing is set for Aug. 17.
“It is with immense gratitude that we announce our retirement, culminating 35 years of dedication and growth,” the Facebook announcement said. “We invite you to celebrate our journey and make the most of your gift certificates before our closure on August 17, 2024. From humble beginnings as Barone Farm and Feed in 1989, we have evolved into Hot House Brewing at Barone Gardens – a testament to our resilience and adaptability. We have embraced change, transforming our retail business into a thriving greenhouse, brewery and bistro. As we retire, we extend our sincerest appreciation to our patrons and staff for their unwavering support and friendship. We look forward to the next chapter in our journey.”
John Barone said today it’s “time to ride off into the sunset.” Much of the greenhouse space was sold a few years ago, and the rest of the property will now be put up for sale, he said.
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Onondaga County opts out of state law exempting solar and wind farms from property taxes (PS; $; Knauss)
Onondaga County will opt out of a state law that exempts commercial wind and solar farms from property taxes. Legislators voted 14-3 today to opt out, at the urging of County Executive Ryan McMahon’s administration.
The action means that future wind and solar facilities, or other renewable energy developments, will be fully taxable rather than exempt.
Developers can still seek payment-in-lieu-of-tax deals from local municipalities and school districts to reduce their tax bills, but county officials have said they will be unlikely to bestow PILOTs for the county’s portion.
During the debate leading up to Tuesday’s vote, Democratic Floor Leader Chris Ryan sought to table the legislation to further study its potential effects on renewable energy projects. Legislator Maurice Brown, D-Syracuse, said he was concerned that developers would shun the county after the tax exemption disappears.
Ryan’s motion to return the proposal to committee failed on a mostly party-line vote, with six Democrats and Republican Ken Bush Jr. voting to table the measure and 10 other Republicans voting no.
The local law to opt out of the automatic tax exemption then passed 14-3, with Brown and Democrats Dan Romeo and Nodesia Hernandez voting against it.
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