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Dyshawn Davis
Bye Week Benefits Syracuse Now, But Would Be Better Used Amid 9 Week Stretch of Games (DO; D;Abbraccio)
It’s a little early for Syracuse to be taking a breather. Maybe too early.
A Week 2 bye, the Orange’s earliest bye week in a season since 1996, does allow Syracuse to regroup after its ugly 27-26 win over Villanova on Aug. 29. But down the road, the Orange may very likely be wishing it had a week off when it’s grinding through nine straight games before its second bye in Week 11.
“Having an early bye week — you can say it comes at a bad time and you can also say it comes at a good time,” head coach Scott Shafer said during the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday. “We have some injuries from summer camp that I think this bye week will help.”
In addition to a few bumps and bruises — SU’s offensive line needed some rearranging against Villanova due to the absences of Nick Robinson and Omari Palmer — the off week also lets more dust settle from Terrel Hunt’s opening-night ejection.
Now it would be surprising if SU hadn’t made an attempt while planning out the schedule to place its first bye week later in the season; it’s likely that it just couldn’t work out that way.
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Orange Watch: Syracuse Has the Most NFL Head Coaches (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: Impressively, with the NFL’s 95th season in full swing, no other school or league has produced more of the on-field leaders of the league’s 32 teams than SU and its two year old conference home.
When Dick MacPherson shocked Orange Nation in January 1991 by accepting the New England Patriots head coaching job after his 10 seasons resurrecting the Syracuse program from also-ran to 1987 national championship contender and annual bowl game participant, he had a very simple reason for taking on the ultimate challenge in a then-33 year career as a college and NFL assistant, and head coach at Massachusetts and SU.
“It’s one of only 28 jobs (at the time) at the top of our profession,” he explained. “And the salary and benefits aren’t too bad either.”
Unfortunately for Coach Mac, his NFL head coaching career came to an abrupt halt after just two seasons. The first was an impressive 6-10 record coming off the Patriots 1990 disaster of going 1-15, the worst record in team history, and the turnaround even warranted some coach of the year talk. His second year was marred by missing the final eight games due to illness and ended up 2-14, and with new ownership that off-season he was replaced by Bill Parcells, retiring with a nice payout and beginning an ambassadorship to Syracuse football which continues today.
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Hanna Strong Needs to Publicly Apologize in Wake of Viral Video (DO; Dougherty)
When the video of Hanna Strong calling an unidentified person a “f*ggot-a** n*gger”circulated Saturday, it could have been looked at as just another setback in the fight against racism, homophobia and intolerance as a whole.
But Hanna Strong is a student-athlete at Syracuse University. Hanna Strong plays in one of, if not the, best women’s soccer conference in the country.It’s not just another viral video.
It’s a revolting stringing-together of racial and homophobic slurs that puts Strong and Syracuse University at the front of the ever-present movement against hate. The next step is the one that will define the situation and Strong, as a student-athlete, needs to take it herself.
Strong needs to make an in-person apology and put a face to the ever-present issue.
After the video of Strong, a senior midfielder on the SU women’s soccer team, caught fire on Saturday afternoon, Syracuse Athletics released a statement from Director of Athletics Daryl Gross. In the statement, Gross announced that SU head coach Phil Wheddon suspended Strong indefinitely and that an investigation — by the Department of Public Safety and the Title IX Office — is underway.
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Dyshawn Davis
Bye Week Benefits Syracuse Now, But Would Be Better Used Amid 9 Week Stretch of Games (DO; D;Abbraccio)
It’s a little early for Syracuse to be taking a breather. Maybe too early.
A Week 2 bye, the Orange’s earliest bye week in a season since 1996, does allow Syracuse to regroup after its ugly 27-26 win over Villanova on Aug. 29. But down the road, the Orange may very likely be wishing it had a week off when it’s grinding through nine straight games before its second bye in Week 11.
“Having an early bye week — you can say it comes at a bad time and you can also say it comes at a good time,” head coach Scott Shafer said during the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ teleconference on Wednesday. “We have some injuries from summer camp that I think this bye week will help.”
In addition to a few bumps and bruises — SU’s offensive line needed some rearranging against Villanova due to the absences of Nick Robinson and Omari Palmer — the off week also lets more dust settle from Terrel Hunt’s opening-night ejection.
Now it would be surprising if SU hadn’t made an attempt while planning out the schedule to place its first bye week later in the season; it’s likely that it just couldn’t work out that way.
...
Orange Watch: Syracuse Has the Most NFL Head Coaches (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: Impressively, with the NFL’s 95th season in full swing, no other school or league has produced more of the on-field leaders of the league’s 32 teams than SU and its two year old conference home.
When Dick MacPherson shocked Orange Nation in January 1991 by accepting the New England Patriots head coaching job after his 10 seasons resurrecting the Syracuse program from also-ran to 1987 national championship contender and annual bowl game participant, he had a very simple reason for taking on the ultimate challenge in a then-33 year career as a college and NFL assistant, and head coach at Massachusetts and SU.
“It’s one of only 28 jobs (at the time) at the top of our profession,” he explained. “And the salary and benefits aren’t too bad either.”
Unfortunately for Coach Mac, his NFL head coaching career came to an abrupt halt after just two seasons. The first was an impressive 6-10 record coming off the Patriots 1990 disaster of going 1-15, the worst record in team history, and the turnaround even warranted some coach of the year talk. His second year was marred by missing the final eight games due to illness and ended up 2-14, and with new ownership that off-season he was replaced by Bill Parcells, retiring with a nice payout and beginning an ambassadorship to Syracuse football which continues today.
...
Other
Hanna Strong Needs to Publicly Apologize in Wake of Viral Video (DO; Dougherty)
When the video of Hanna Strong calling an unidentified person a “f*ggot-a** n*gger”circulated Saturday, it could have been looked at as just another setback in the fight against racism, homophobia and intolerance as a whole.
But Hanna Strong is a student-athlete at Syracuse University. Hanna Strong plays in one of, if not the, best women’s soccer conference in the country.It’s not just another viral video.
It’s a revolting stringing-together of racial and homophobic slurs that puts Strong and Syracuse University at the front of the ever-present movement against hate. The next step is the one that will define the situation and Strong, as a student-athlete, needs to take it herself.
Strong needs to make an in-person apology and put a face to the ever-present issue.
After the video of Strong, a senior midfielder on the SU women’s soccer team, caught fire on Saturday afternoon, Syracuse Athletics released a statement from Director of Athletics Daryl Gross. In the statement, Gross announced that SU head coach Phil Wheddon suspended Strong indefinitely and that an investigation — by the Department of Public Safety and the Title IX Office — is underway.
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