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Zeke Johnson Flashes His Athletic Ability
Syracuse Defensive Line Leads Steady Defense Into Matchup with Wake Forest (DO; D'Abbraccio)
Syracuse’s offense has been well-documented this season.
Terrel Hunt is out four to six weeks. There’s a new offensive coordinator. The Orange can’t find the end zone.
But as the offense shuffles through personnel changes, deals with injuries and makes tac-tical adjustments, the other side of the ball remains a steady, almost quiet constant — with the front four leading the way in recent weeks.
“It starts up front with the D-line,” junior nose tackle John Raymon said. “It’s always been that way since I’ve been here.
“We predicate our team on defense and getting turnovers and regardless if it’s (Terrel) Hunt or AJ (Long) or Mitch Kimble or Austin Wilson, the defense comes to play and make turnovers.”
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Time Machine: #16 Syracuse Loses to #4 Michael Vick Led V Tech 62-0 (DO; Curtis)
Editor’s note: This was a game story written by Dave Curtis, former assistant sports editor, after No. 16 Syracuse lost to No. 4 Virginia Tech. It was published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 19, 1999.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — The massacre ended at 9:32 p.m. EST, 204 gory minutes after an errant Jimmy Kibble kickoff began it.
No. 4 Virginia Tech, playing with the enthusiasm and skill of a national-champion-in-waiting, turned Lane Stadium into an Orange cemetery Saturday evening, smothering No. 16 Syracuse 62-0.
The first 30 minutes served as a public funeral, the last 30 minutes a disrespectful Blacksburg burial. The stat sheet read like an obituary, a numerical tribute to the most dominant effort in the Big East’s nine-year history.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Michael Vick completed passes to seven different receivers, tailback Shyrone Stith rushed for 140 yards and the vaunted Hokie defense scored three touchdowns in Syracuse’s worst loss since the Taft administration.
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PS Writers Give Their Mid Term Grades for the SU Football Program (PS; Staff)
Our writers take a closer look at Syracuse at the midseason, handing out grades for each area of the game and dishing out honors and superlatives.
Share your grades and thoughts in the comment section below.
Offense
Brent Axe: C-
It's hard to be too critical of this group due to the high rate of injury, but even when it was healthy, the red-zone inefficiency and constant penalties and mistakes were aggravating. There's a reason Scott Shafer made a coordinator change. They needed the jolt and the new direction.
Stephen Bailey: C-
Moving the ball only gets you so far. Syracuse's inability to punch the ball in during red-zone situations is growing to define this unit. The Orange is tied for sixth-worst in the country in red-zone touchdown percentage midway through the season with its best weapon, dual-threat quarterback Terrel Hunt, sidelined due to a fractured fibula.
Every aspect of the offense, be it the running game, passing game, offensive line, etc. has shown talent and some level of consistency on the rest of the field. But it just doesn't matter if you can't get the ball over the goal line.
Nate Mink:
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Scott Finds Success at WAke Forest After Spending 4 Years at Virginia (DO; Blum)
Coming out of high school, E.J. Scott received “a boatload” of Division I football offers that he narrowed down to two options.
Virginia was No. 1 on his list. Wake Forest was No. 2.
UVA was closer. His family lived around there. His sister also attended college locally at Old Dominion. In theory, it was the obvious fit.
“The triangle family aspect of it was perfect,” said Kevin McFadden, his high school assistant coach, of Scott’s reasoning for choosing Virginia. “For his mom and his dad to get to him, and then to get to his sister and get back home.”
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Zeke Johnson Flashes His Athletic Ability
Syracuse Defensive Line Leads Steady Defense Into Matchup with Wake Forest (DO; D'Abbraccio)
Syracuse’s offense has been well-documented this season.
Terrel Hunt is out four to six weeks. There’s a new offensive coordinator. The Orange can’t find the end zone.
But as the offense shuffles through personnel changes, deals with injuries and makes tac-tical adjustments, the other side of the ball remains a steady, almost quiet constant — with the front four leading the way in recent weeks.
“It starts up front with the D-line,” junior nose tackle John Raymon said. “It’s always been that way since I’ve been here.
“We predicate our team on defense and getting turnovers and regardless if it’s (Terrel) Hunt or AJ (Long) or Mitch Kimble or Austin Wilson, the defense comes to play and make turnovers.”
...
Time Machine: #16 Syracuse Loses to #4 Michael Vick Led V Tech 62-0 (DO; Curtis)
Editor’s note: This was a game story written by Dave Curtis, former assistant sports editor, after No. 16 Syracuse lost to No. 4 Virginia Tech. It was published in The Daily Orange on Oct. 19, 1999.
BLACKSBURG, Va. — The massacre ended at 9:32 p.m. EST, 204 gory minutes after an errant Jimmy Kibble kickoff began it.
No. 4 Virginia Tech, playing with the enthusiasm and skill of a national-champion-in-waiting, turned Lane Stadium into an Orange cemetery Saturday evening, smothering No. 16 Syracuse 62-0.
The first 30 minutes served as a public funeral, the last 30 minutes a disrespectful Blacksburg burial. The stat sheet read like an obituary, a numerical tribute to the most dominant effort in the Big East’s nine-year history.
Redshirt freshman quarterback Michael Vick completed passes to seven different receivers, tailback Shyrone Stith rushed for 140 yards and the vaunted Hokie defense scored three touchdowns in Syracuse’s worst loss since the Taft administration.
...
PS Writers Give Their Mid Term Grades for the SU Football Program (PS; Staff)
Our writers take a closer look at Syracuse at the midseason, handing out grades for each area of the game and dishing out honors and superlatives.
Share your grades and thoughts in the comment section below.
Offense
Brent Axe: C-
It's hard to be too critical of this group due to the high rate of injury, but even when it was healthy, the red-zone inefficiency and constant penalties and mistakes were aggravating. There's a reason Scott Shafer made a coordinator change. They needed the jolt and the new direction.
Stephen Bailey: C-
Moving the ball only gets you so far. Syracuse's inability to punch the ball in during red-zone situations is growing to define this unit. The Orange is tied for sixth-worst in the country in red-zone touchdown percentage midway through the season with its best weapon, dual-threat quarterback Terrel Hunt, sidelined due to a fractured fibula.
Every aspect of the offense, be it the running game, passing game, offensive line, etc. has shown talent and some level of consistency on the rest of the field. But it just doesn't matter if you can't get the ball over the goal line.
Nate Mink:
...
Scott Finds Success at WAke Forest After Spending 4 Years at Virginia (DO; Blum)
Coming out of high school, E.J. Scott received “a boatload” of Division I football offers that he narrowed down to two options.
Virginia was No. 1 on his list. Wake Forest was No. 2.
UVA was closer. His family lived around there. His sister also attended college locally at Old Dominion. In theory, it was the obvious fit.
“The triangle family aspect of it was perfect,” said Kevin McFadden, his high school assistant coach, of Scott’s reasoning for choosing Virginia. “For his mom and his dad to get to him, and then to get to his sister and get back home.”
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