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West Sets Career High in Receiving Yards in Loss to Wolfpack, Hints at Strong Finish to SU Career (DO; Dougherty)
Jarrod West isn’t particularly fast or big, and doesn’t have a sparkling resume.
But he is the most experienced player on a Syracuse wide receiving corps that has been without top receivers Ashton Broyld and Brisly Estime for much of the season, and showed that off against N.C. State on Saturday.
“Jarrod’s one of the best receivers in the country. That was on display today,”freshman quarterback AJ Long said after the game. “He made plays that he hasn’t shown in the past. He’s given the opportunity and he’s just doing what he’s capable of.”
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Orange Watch: Syracuse Football Will Only Become Relevant Again by Winning. Period. (sujuiceonline.com; Bierman)
Item: Remember the enthusiastic summertime talk of the Orange eyeing a rare 3-0 start? Now, unless SU knocks off No. 22/24 Duke this week, it will be the first season ever in which there were zero home victories against FBS opposition.
Back in the 1978 final season of Archbold Stadium, in the final game played in the crumbling structure against No. 18 Navy, a 1-7 Orangemen squad was looking to avoid becoming the first team in the stadium’s 70 season history, and only the third ever dating back to the inaugural 1889 one game campaign, to go winless at home.
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Well It Was 20 Years Ago Today...SU Football and Basketball Were Ranked and the Crunch Was Born (PS; Poliquin)
Syracuse.com celebrates its 20th birthday this week. Staffers are looking back this week at life, entertainment and technology from 1994. Today, we take a look back at the local sports scene.
Syracuse, N.Y. — It was 20 years ago this month that the mammoth freshman, recruited by the royals of the college basketball world, played his first basketball game in the Carrier Dome … and walked away wide-eyed.
"It's a big place," said Adonal Foyle, the 6-foot-10 center of the Colgate Red Raiders, who'd oddly won the bidding for his considerable services. "You look around and see a lot of people. But I guess that's the point of it."
His side lost that night to the Orangemen from Syracuse University, which had romanced him in vain, before a crowd of 21,814. But Foyle &mash; bound, ultimately, for a long career in the NBA — had made a splash with his 15 points, 15 rebounds and five blocked shots.
And in that way, he sort of mirrored syracuse.com, which had been launched a few weeks earlier and had made quite an initial impression with the promise that it would surely grow into something rather special.
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