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Terrel Hunt Healthy, Will Work with First Team to Start Spring Practice (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse redshirt senior quarterback Terrel Hunt is healthy and will practice with the first-team offense when the Orange begins spring ball on Feb. 22, SU head coach Scott Shafer told ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson on Monday.
Hunt fractured his fibula five games into last season, and missed the rest of the year. It is unclear if he is fully participating in winter conditioning, though walk-on quarterback Zack Mahoney said previously that Hunt is helping organize route-running sessions with wide receivers. Hunt's readiness to start for spring ball is especially important with offensive coordinator Tim Lester installing his offensive system.
Hunt threw for 983 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions and ran for 292 yards and six scores last year before his season was cut short during a 28-6 loss to Louisville on Oct. 3.
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Syracuse Football, Basketball On Pace for One of the Worst Combined Seasons in 40 Years (PS; Cassillo)
I hate losing. I hate when my teams lose. And I especially hate when Syracuse teams lose. As you may have guessed, that means I've hated a lot about the last six months of Orange sports. It make all of this (college fandom, writing, etc.) less fun, as I'm sure you'd all agree. But just how historically bad have things been for Orange football and basketball for 2014-15?
Historically, so, actually.
Going back on when Jim Boeheim started in 1976-77, and running through now, this would be the first time neither program made it to any sort of postseason. It's among just five instances where there wasn't a bowl game or NCAA Tournament appearance. And the current combined winning percentage of the two teams (.514) is currently third-to-last in the examined timeframe. With eight games left, we can sink as low as last for this year, or as high as high as seventh-to-last. That's... bad.
The rundown of the 10 worst seasons (with this year's included based on current basketball W-L). I promise I'll get to the positive end of this spectrum shortly.
Year Total Ws Total Ls Win Pct. FB Postseason BB Postseason
2007-08 23 24 0.489 None NIT
1981-82 20 19 0.513 None NIT
2014-15 18 17 0.514 None None
2005-06 24 22 0.522 None First Round
1982-83 23 19 0.548 None Second Round
2006-07 28 19 0.596 None NIT
1980-81 27 18 0.600 None NIT
2008-09 31 19 0.620 None Sweet 16
1996-97 28 16 0.636 Liberty (W) NIT
1998-99 29 16 0.644 Orange (L) First Round
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A Little Dabo Will Do Ya...
ACC Team Recruiting Consensus Rankings for 2015 (athlonsports.com; Gall)
Athlon Sports has averaged out the four major recruiting services team rankings for the ACC — 247Sports, , At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. and ESPN — and created the ACC consensus team recruiting rankings for 2015. Here is what we learned:
Florida State, Clemson and everybody else
It’s clear who the class of the ACC was in 2015 recruiting. The Seminoles and Tigers were ranked in the top five nationally by both Rivals and ESPN and the top eight by 247. No one else in the ACC was even close and North Carolina finished third with an average ranking just outside of the top 25. That said, for whatever reason, Scout didn’t agree, ranking both Clemson and Florida State outside of the top 10 nationally (take it up with them, fans).
Newest faces
Louisville and Bobby Petrino just completed their first full cycle as a member of the ACC and it appears the Cardinals will do just fine in their new league. The Cards ranked no lower than 32nd nationally by any service and finished solidly in the top half of the league. The same cannot be said about Pitt and Syracuse, who signed the worst two classes in the ACC this fall (mostly due to size for the Panthers).
Three-star classes
Florida State and Clemson signed all seven five-star recruits that the ACC landed this cycle. Those two programs, as expected, signed 19 of the 42 four-star recruits as well. Who didn’t sign a single five- or four-star recruit in the ACC? Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Boston College and Syracuse were the only ACC teams that didn’t land a four-star recruit this year.
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Terrel Hunt Healthy, Will Work with First Team to Start Spring Practice (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse redshirt senior quarterback Terrel Hunt is healthy and will practice with the first-team offense when the Orange begins spring ball on Feb. 22, SU head coach Scott Shafer told ESPN.com's Andrea Adelson on Monday.
Hunt fractured his fibula five games into last season, and missed the rest of the year. It is unclear if he is fully participating in winter conditioning, though walk-on quarterback Zack Mahoney said previously that Hunt is helping organize route-running sessions with wide receivers. Hunt's readiness to start for spring ball is especially important with offensive coordinator Tim Lester installing his offensive system.
Hunt threw for 983 yards, one touchdown and four interceptions and ran for 292 yards and six scores last year before his season was cut short during a 28-6 loss to Louisville on Oct. 3.
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Syracuse Football, Basketball On Pace for One of the Worst Combined Seasons in 40 Years (PS; Cassillo)
I hate losing. I hate when my teams lose. And I especially hate when Syracuse teams lose. As you may have guessed, that means I've hated a lot about the last six months of Orange sports. It make all of this (college fandom, writing, etc.) less fun, as I'm sure you'd all agree. But just how historically bad have things been for Orange football and basketball for 2014-15?
Historically, so, actually.
Going back on when Jim Boeheim started in 1976-77, and running through now, this would be the first time neither program made it to any sort of postseason. It's among just five instances where there wasn't a bowl game or NCAA Tournament appearance. And the current combined winning percentage of the two teams (.514) is currently third-to-last in the examined timeframe. With eight games left, we can sink as low as last for this year, or as high as high as seventh-to-last. That's... bad.
The rundown of the 10 worst seasons (with this year's included based on current basketball W-L). I promise I'll get to the positive end of this spectrum shortly.
Year Total Ws Total Ls Win Pct. FB Postseason BB Postseason
2007-08 23 24 0.489 None NIT
1981-82 20 19 0.513 None NIT
2014-15 18 17 0.514 None None
2005-06 24 22 0.522 None First Round
1982-83 23 19 0.548 None Second Round
2006-07 28 19 0.596 None NIT
1980-81 27 18 0.600 None NIT
2008-09 31 19 0.620 None Sweet 16
1996-97 28 16 0.636 Liberty (W) NIT
1998-99 29 16 0.644 Orange (L) First Round
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A Little Dabo Will Do Ya...
ACC Team Recruiting Consensus Rankings for 2015 (athlonsports.com; Gall)
Athlon Sports has averaged out the four major recruiting services team rankings for the ACC — 247Sports, , At their request, this network is being blocked from this site. and ESPN — and created the ACC consensus team recruiting rankings for 2015. Here is what we learned:
Florida State, Clemson and everybody else
It’s clear who the class of the ACC was in 2015 recruiting. The Seminoles and Tigers were ranked in the top five nationally by both Rivals and ESPN and the top eight by 247. No one else in the ACC was even close and North Carolina finished third with an average ranking just outside of the top 25. That said, for whatever reason, Scout didn’t agree, ranking both Clemson and Florida State outside of the top 10 nationally (take it up with them, fans).
Newest faces
Louisville and Bobby Petrino just completed their first full cycle as a member of the ACC and it appears the Cardinals will do just fine in their new league. The Cards ranked no lower than 32nd nationally by any service and finished solidly in the top half of the league. The same cannot be said about Pitt and Syracuse, who signed the worst two classes in the ACC this fall (mostly due to size for the Panthers).
Three-star classes
Florida State and Clemson signed all seven five-star recruits that the ACC landed this cycle. Those two programs, as expected, signed 19 of the 42 four-star recruits as well. Who didn’t sign a single five- or four-star recruit in the ACC? Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, Boston College and Syracuse were the only ACC teams that didn’t land a four-star recruit this year.
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