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Tim Lester's Turn (DO; Klinger)
Girls in the room drooled a little the first time Tim Lester walked into Barry Brennan’s math class. High cheekbones, tight jawline, brown eyes and all, Lester was about to become their student teacher.
“But he was a taskmaster,” Brennan said. “So they were not going to get away with not doing work.”
Lester was preparing for the 2000 NFL Combine after a record-setting quarterback career at Western Michigan while student-teaching algebra and geometry at Wheaton Warrenville South (Illinois) High School. He didn’t get drafted. He never played a down at any level higher than the XFL or the Arena Football Leagues.
Sternly but patiently, though, he kept teaching and learning. First and briefly, math as a student teacher in actual classrooms. Then on small college football fields around the Midwest.
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Whigham Gets Another Shot at FSU After Life Threatening Injury in Tallahassee Last Season (DO; Blum)
Julian Whigham has been preparing for this moment for 11 months.
The last time the Syracuse cornerback took the field against Florida State, he left it on a stretcher with his own blood staining the Seminoles’ end zone. A game of football in front of family and friends near his West Palm Beach, Florida home had turned into a life or death situation.
“That injury, that down time and all that thinking, you find a lot of things to go after,” Whigham said. “Over the spring and during the summer, it was like, ‘Why can’t I be the best?’… Being cut short last year was difficult. It hurt, because I love those platforms.”
On Saturday at noon, a fully healthy Whigham will get a chance to take on No. 1 Florida State (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) almost a year after suffering a season-ending injury on the Seminoles’ field.
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Aguayo Continues Dominance as Country's Best Kicker After Breaking Record, Winning NC Last Season (DO; Schneidman)
Roberto Aguayo had only played 13 games in his college football career, but he’d al-ready won the Lou Groza Award for the nation’s top kicker. He had only missed one of his 22 field goals. He had made 93 straight extra points.
But as Aguayo trotted onto the Rose Bowl field with 13 seconds left in the national championship game, he needed a 94th. With Florida State leading Auburn by two, one more extra point not only stood between the Seminoles and a national title, but also Aguayo and the NCAA single-season points record.
He took a practice swing, looked at the uprights and aimed. He took three steps back, two to the side, nodded to his holder and booted it through.
On top of last year’s dominance, the sophomore is 12-for-12 on field goals and 22-of-22 on PATs this year. He most recently won Atlantic Coast Conference specialist of the week for the No. 1 team in the country, and with a combination of confidence, pinpoint accuracy and consistency, remains the best kicker in all of college football.
#78 is Doug Marrone, He Had Disdain for Refs Even as a Player
Time Machine: SU Knocks Off #1 Nebraska in 1984 for Only Upset of #1 Team in SU Program History (DO; Guise)
This was a game story written by Joe Guise after Syracuse beat No. 1 Nebraska that was published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 1, 1984.
Dick MacPherson knew something special was going to happen on Saturday afternoon.
The night before, the Syracuse University football coach and his staff made their usual rounds at 9 p.m. to “check on the players and bring them lunches.” This time, however, most of the team was sound asleep.
“They have to get up at 7 a.m., so we usually give them the food at nine and they’re asleep by 10,” MacPherson said. “Only on Friday night, I knew something was up because we had to wake up 70 percent of the guys.
“It reminded me of the time I was coaching at UMass and we were playing Western Illinois the next day for the championship,” he continued. “Those guys were sound asleep early also, and we went on to win that game. So I knew we were going to do something special this Saturday. It’s amazing they were asleep, because you know how hungry football players get.”
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Tim Lester's Turn (DO; Klinger)
Girls in the room drooled a little the first time Tim Lester walked into Barry Brennan’s math class. High cheekbones, tight jawline, brown eyes and all, Lester was about to become their student teacher.
“But he was a taskmaster,” Brennan said. “So they were not going to get away with not doing work.”
Lester was preparing for the 2000 NFL Combine after a record-setting quarterback career at Western Michigan while student-teaching algebra and geometry at Wheaton Warrenville South (Illinois) High School. He didn’t get drafted. He never played a down at any level higher than the XFL or the Arena Football Leagues.
Sternly but patiently, though, he kept teaching and learning. First and briefly, math as a student teacher in actual classrooms. Then on small college football fields around the Midwest.
...
Whigham Gets Another Shot at FSU After Life Threatening Injury in Tallahassee Last Season (DO; Blum)
Julian Whigham has been preparing for this moment for 11 months.
The last time the Syracuse cornerback took the field against Florida State, he left it on a stretcher with his own blood staining the Seminoles’ end zone. A game of football in front of family and friends near his West Palm Beach, Florida home had turned into a life or death situation.
“That injury, that down time and all that thinking, you find a lot of things to go after,” Whigham said. “Over the spring and during the summer, it was like, ‘Why can’t I be the best?’… Being cut short last year was difficult. It hurt, because I love those platforms.”
On Saturday at noon, a fully healthy Whigham will get a chance to take on No. 1 Florida State (5-0, 3-0 Atlantic Coast) almost a year after suffering a season-ending injury on the Seminoles’ field.
...
Aguayo Continues Dominance as Country's Best Kicker After Breaking Record, Winning NC Last Season (DO; Schneidman)
Roberto Aguayo had only played 13 games in his college football career, but he’d al-ready won the Lou Groza Award for the nation’s top kicker. He had only missed one of his 22 field goals. He had made 93 straight extra points.
But as Aguayo trotted onto the Rose Bowl field with 13 seconds left in the national championship game, he needed a 94th. With Florida State leading Auburn by two, one more extra point not only stood between the Seminoles and a national title, but also Aguayo and the NCAA single-season points record.
He took a practice swing, looked at the uprights and aimed. He took three steps back, two to the side, nodded to his holder and booted it through.
On top of last year’s dominance, the sophomore is 12-for-12 on field goals and 22-of-22 on PATs this year. He most recently won Atlantic Coast Conference specialist of the week for the No. 1 team in the country, and with a combination of confidence, pinpoint accuracy and consistency, remains the best kicker in all of college football.
#78 is Doug Marrone, He Had Disdain for Refs Even as a Player
Time Machine: SU Knocks Off #1 Nebraska in 1984 for Only Upset of #1 Team in SU Program History (DO; Guise)
This was a game story written by Joe Guise after Syracuse beat No. 1 Nebraska that was published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 1, 1984.
Dick MacPherson knew something special was going to happen on Saturday afternoon.
The night before, the Syracuse University football coach and his staff made their usual rounds at 9 p.m. to “check on the players and bring them lunches.” This time, however, most of the team was sound asleep.
“They have to get up at 7 a.m., so we usually give them the food at nine and they’re asleep by 10,” MacPherson said. “Only on Friday night, I knew something was up because we had to wake up 70 percent of the guys.
“It reminded me of the time I was coaching at UMass and we were playing Western Illinois the next day for the championship,” he continued. “Those guys were sound asleep early also, and we went on to win that game. So I knew we were going to do something special this Saturday. It’s amazing they were asleep, because you know how hungry football players get.”
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