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Message: [QUOTE="CuseLegacy, post: 1488886, member: 469"] After reading this and realizing the totally improbability of it all I have decided that Gods' hand, or call it Karma, is at work here. LGO! [URL='http://dailyorange.com/2015/09/zack-mahoney-becomes-syracuse-starter-just-weeks-removed-from-being-5th-stringer-2/?utm_source=Daily+Orange+Email+Blast&utm_campaign=921fded270-UA-34538687-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_737851c5ca-921fded270-42161029'][B][U]Zack Mahoney Becomes SU Starter Just Weeks From Serving as 5th-String QB (DO; Blum)[/U][/B][/URL] [I]Richard Mahoney sat a few rows up on the Carrier Dome’s 50-yard line to watch his son Zack play in a game they never expected him to appear in. So too did Zack’s mother, brother, sister, aunt, uncle and three cousins, all of whom made the trip from LaGrange, Illinois. Richard, his father, wasn’t sure what it meant when he saw Zack put the headset on following Eric Dungey’s injury. And he wasn’t sure what it meant when he took it off to start warming up with Austin Wilson. A few days before, Zack had told his dad that he had gotten a few more reps in practice. He thought maybe Zack would get in for a play or two. He couldn’t imagine that his son would be leading the game-winning drive. “It was past exciting,” Richard said. Mahoney started the season as the fifth-string quarterback. When he wasn’t taking limited reps in training camp, he was with special teams holding kicks. Now a week after leading a game-winning overtime drive, he’ll be tasked with the starter’s role when Syracuse (3-0, 1-0 Atlantic Coast) hosts No. 8 Louisiana State (2-0, 2-0 Southeastern) at noon in the Carrier Dome on Saturday. Four years ago, Mahoney was the quarterback that couldn’t win the starting job as a junior at Lyons Township (Illinois) High School. The last time he started a football game, it was against Lindenwood-Bellville JV. As recently as the spring, SU head coach Scott Shafer struggled to remember his name. Now, Mahoney’s starting under center against the eighth-best team in the country. “Coming in as a walk-on transfer, you don’t expect to start,” Mahoney said. “But you’ve got to prepare yourself every week that you can go in whenever. I like to think I’ve prepared myself.” ... [/I] [/QUOTE]

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