I just fell in love with Dana O'Neil

[Orangeyes]

1. Syracuse is not merely the No. 1 team by attrition.

Technically the Orange rose to the top spot because everyone in front of them -- North Carolina, Kentucky and Ohio State -- all lost. But since taking over No. 1, Syracuse has done little to prove it doesn't belong there. The Orange are 16-0, have won their games by an average of 21.8 points (fourth in the country), score at a nice clip of 80.7 points per game (14th) and stingily allow just 58.9 (32nd).

Syracuse comes at its opponents like a hockey team, rich with so much depth that Jim Boeheim can practically do wholesale line changes without a drop-off. Dion Waiters is the team's second-leading scorer. He doesn't start.

It doesn't really matter how Syracuse got to the top spot. The Orange belong there.

You go girl!

The only sportswriter who gets it

 

[CusefanATL]

hahaha. she is the most polarizing writer with cuse fans.

 

[Orangeyes]

hahaha. she is the most polarizing writer with cuse fans.

For now I forgive her for all past transgressions.

 

[NKR1978]

hahaha. she is the most polarizing writer with cuse fans.

She must love our bi-polar reactions to her.

 

[Moontan]

For now I forgive her for all past transgressions.

Speak for yourself.
She's got a long way to go before I reach that point.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Speak for yourself.
She's got a long way to go before I reach that point.

I lost a lot of respect for her. I don't usually hold grudges but she was way out of line with her comments.

 

[Cusefan95]

Speak for yourself.
She's got a long way to go before I reach that point.

Couldn't care less that she wrote this, she's still an ignorant dolt. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while...if she keeps finding nuts then I'll reassess. One nut ain't even close to enough.

 

[armory]

Loved her until she started agenda-based-reporting on the Fine Mess... she always does a nice job with her articles when she isn't invested in them. Will be hard to forget her irresponsible articles last year though.

 

[texascpa]

Read the second paragraph in that segment.

 

[Orangeyes]

Dana has seen the light and the wickedness of her ways. She has taken the first step in her rehabilitation process.

 

[DoctorBombay]

The kiss of death.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

1. Syracuse is not merely the No. 1 team by attrition.

Technically the Orange rose to the top spot because everyone in front of them -- North Carolina, Kentucky and Ohio State -- all lost. But since taking over No. 1, Syracuse has done little to prove it doesn't belong there. The Orange are 16-0, have won their games by an average of 21.8 points (fourth in the country), score at a nice clip of 80.7 points per game (14th) and stingily allow just 58.9 (32nd).

Techincally, other than the first poll, teams only rise to #1 because other teams ahead of them, specifically the #1 team, lost.

 

[moqui]

Syracuse comes at its opponents like a hockey team

so, now she's calling our guys ugly?

 

[cpatrocks]

so, now she's calling our guys ugly?

She's saying that we sub like a line change in hockey

 

[SU2NASA]

I still think she's a terrible writer more suited to cover women's volleyball for the University of Nebraska-Omaha.

 

[ithacat]

She was more outraged by SU and Pitt leaving the Big East than she was by Penn State/Sandusky. She also obsessed more and longer over SU/Fine than Penn State/Sandusky. She can keep her head stuffed in a sandpit as far as I care.

 

[zeekay]

Pretty sure her and Mark Schwartz are the only two reporters in the country who refused to use the word allegedly ever since the accusations came out. Regardless of the final outcome they are hackjobs who should have been sent packing long ago.

 

[fairfaxcuse]

She goes with whatever is trending. A few weeks ago, she was the one ESPN writer who predicted our stay at #1 would last a few days with a loss to NC State. She is like a little kid with a twitter feed who responds to whatever trends and posts it on ESPN.com.

She doesn't need to be to praised or hated...just ignored.

 

[Fireball Jr.]

so, now she's calling our guys ugly?

and toothless

 

[bnoro]

She was more outraged by SU and Pitt leaving the Big East than she was by Penn State/Sandusky. She also obsessed more and longer over SU/Fine than Penn State/Sandusky. She can keep her head stuffed in a sandpit as far as I care.

Not defending her but she's a college basketball writer, so I wouldn't expect her to write about PSU football.

 

[Orangeyes]

and toothless

That my friend is because she too is thusly afflicted

 

[Rocco]

For now I forgive her for all past transgressions.

Easier to love us when we're on top. She needs to get off the bandwagon.

 

[zibby]

She goes with whatever is trending. A few weeks ago, she was the one ESPN writer who predicted our stay at #1 would last a few days with a loss to NC State. She is like a little kid with a twitter feed who responds to whatever trends and posts it on ESPN.com.

She doesn't need to be to praised or hated...just ignored.

This x1000. And I think it was just a coincidence that she picked NC State. If SU's next game were against Northeast South Dakota Tech State A&M she would have picked them because at that time it was cool and edgy to pick against SU. Now all of a sudden it's fashionable to talk about how good SU is.

 

[longislandcuse]

Mark Schwarz and Dana O'Neill have to do ALOT for me to ever respect anything they write or should i say, troll about. Im so thoroughly disgusted by the both of them that im not sure what either could do for me to ever care about anything they put their name to and not chuckle at their lack of journalistic integrity.

 

[Reyes39]

Gross...fringe 3/10.