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I am temporarily filling in for OE as he recovers from surgery. Get will soon Dan.
SU News
Daryl Gross Reportedly Favors a 9 Game Schedule
The Case for Syracuse Football Playing More Conference Games (sujuiceonline; Bierman)
The SEC came out boldly proclaiming last week that it’s staying at eight regular season conference football games, while mandating that each league member annually schedule a game against a team from one of the other five “Power Conferences” (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac 12) beginning in 2016, even though most of the teams have either been doing so annually in rivalry games, or had home-and-home series already scheduled, including LSU making a rare visit outside SEC country (only five games since 2000 not played in its conference footprint) to face the Orange in the Dome in 2015, and Baton Rouge in 2017.
By sticking at eight league games, the SEC’s action brought a quick rebuke from the Pac 12 office and coaches as the “Power Five” jockey for the four semi-final slots to be played in two games on New Year’s Day, with the two winners then moving on to the first CFP championship game to be played next Jan. 12 at AT&T Stadium outside Dallas.
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WMU Verbal Jamal Brown Has Endured a Lot (hustlebelt.com; Persky)
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Brown's only other offer came from Toledo, but he was gaining interest from schools such as Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Missouri, Northern Illinois, Syracuse, UConn, and Wisconsin.
It was Brown's growing relationship with coach P.J. Fleck and the rest of the Western Michigan coaching staff and players that made him feel like he had a second home away from home in Chicago.
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ACC News
Jameis Winston Back on Baseball Team (ESPN; Adelson)
Other
Jasmine Watson After Another Home Run
Brackets Set for ACC Softball Tournament, Will be Held in Maryland, SU is the 6 Seed (theACC.com)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – With regular season play completed on Sunday, the bracket for the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Softball Championship is set. The three-day event, which begins on Thursday, May 8 and concludes on Saturday, May 10, will be hosted by Maryland, with all games being played at Maryland Softball Stadium.
The top eight teams based on win percentage in ACC games from regular season play will participate in the Championship.
Florida State (47-6, 24-3) grabbed the Championship’s top seed and is No. 4 in the latest USA Today/NFCA poll. The Seminoles will play Georgia Tech (23-23, 11-17) in the first game of the Championship on Thursday at 11 a.m.
Notre Dame (36-10, 15-5), the second seed, will take on Boston College (30-22, 12-14) at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The Fighting Irish, ranked 21st in the latest USA Today/NFCA poll, and the Eagles closed out the regular season versus each other, with Notre Dame earning a three-game sweep.
Third-seeded Virginia Tech (34-20, 19-9) will square off against sixth-seeded Syracuse (24-24, 12-12), which is competing in its first ACC Softball Championship, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. In regular season action, the Hokies and the Orange split a mid-week series.
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Watch Syracuse Play V Tech in ACC Tournament Softball Love on ESPN3 Thursday at 7:30 PM (the ACC.com)
Attendance Challenges for B1G Big Deal (ESPN; Rittenburg)
Wait Until Rutgers and Maryland Show Up Next Season
The Big Ten's combination of big stadiums, big fan bases and big tradition has historically made football attendance a rather small issue.
America's two largest football venues -- Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium -- sit on Big Ten campuses, and three of the seven football stadiums with six-figure capacities are in the league (Ohio Stadium is the other). Michigan has led the nation in college football attendance for the past 15 years, and the Big Ten occupied three of the top five spots and seven of the top 23 spots in attendance average for the 2013 season.
The Big Ten in 2013 set records for total attendance (6,127,526) and attendance for league games (3,414,448), and ranked second behind the SEC in average attendance per game (70,431), a slight increase from 2012.
So what's the B1G deal? Eight of the 12 league programs saw a decline in average attendance last season. Some have seen numbers drop for several years. Student-section attendance is a growing concern, and the Big Ten is tracking the troubling national attendance trends...
Bills Could be Sold by July (NBCSports.com; Alper)
The state of New York has increased efforts to keep the Bills in Buffalo, extending a contractwith attorney Irwin Raij to work on getting a new stadium that would ensure the continued presence of the team after Ralph Wilson’s survivors sell the team.
“The governor wants to be prepared if there are any earlier offers to buy the team,” Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy said, via the Associated Press. “Our team is looking at sites now in Erie County, Buffalo, Niagara County. We’re just being prepared because we don’t know who the next owner will be. We’re not sure what the goals and the objectives of the next ownership team will be.”
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SU News
Daryl Gross Reportedly Favors a 9 Game Schedule
The Case for Syracuse Football Playing More Conference Games (sujuiceonline; Bierman)
The SEC came out boldly proclaiming last week that it’s staying at eight regular season conference football games, while mandating that each league member annually schedule a game against a team from one of the other five “Power Conferences” (ACC, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac 12) beginning in 2016, even though most of the teams have either been doing so annually in rivalry games, or had home-and-home series already scheduled, including LSU making a rare visit outside SEC country (only five games since 2000 not played in its conference footprint) to face the Orange in the Dome in 2015, and Baton Rouge in 2017.
By sticking at eight league games, the SEC’s action brought a quick rebuke from the Pac 12 office and coaches as the “Power Five” jockey for the four semi-final slots to be played in two games on New Year’s Day, with the two winners then moving on to the first CFP championship game to be played next Jan. 12 at AT&T Stadium outside Dallas.
...
WMU Verbal Jamal Brown Has Endured a Lot (hustlebelt.com; Persky)
...
Brown's only other offer came from Toledo, but he was gaining interest from schools such as Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Missouri, Northern Illinois, Syracuse, UConn, and Wisconsin.
It was Brown's growing relationship with coach P.J. Fleck and the rest of the Western Michigan coaching staff and players that made him feel like he had a second home away from home in Chicago.
...
ACC News
Jameis Winston Back on Baseball Team (ESPN; Adelson)
Other
Jasmine Watson After Another Home Run
Brackets Set for ACC Softball Tournament, Will be Held in Maryland, SU is the 6 Seed (theACC.com)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – With regular season play completed on Sunday, the bracket for the 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference Softball Championship is set. The three-day event, which begins on Thursday, May 8 and concludes on Saturday, May 10, will be hosted by Maryland, with all games being played at Maryland Softball Stadium.
The top eight teams based on win percentage in ACC games from regular season play will participate in the Championship.
Florida State (47-6, 24-3) grabbed the Championship’s top seed and is No. 4 in the latest USA Today/NFCA poll. The Seminoles will play Georgia Tech (23-23, 11-17) in the first game of the Championship on Thursday at 11 a.m.
Notre Dame (36-10, 15-5), the second seed, will take on Boston College (30-22, 12-14) at 5 p.m. on Thursday. The Fighting Irish, ranked 21st in the latest USA Today/NFCA poll, and the Eagles closed out the regular season versus each other, with Notre Dame earning a three-game sweep.
Third-seeded Virginia Tech (34-20, 19-9) will square off against sixth-seeded Syracuse (24-24, 12-12), which is competing in its first ACC Softball Championship, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. In regular season action, the Hokies and the Orange split a mid-week series.
...
Watch Syracuse Play V Tech in ACC Tournament Softball Love on ESPN3 Thursday at 7:30 PM (the ACC.com)
Attendance Challenges for B1G Big Deal (ESPN; Rittenburg)
Wait Until Rutgers and Maryland Show Up Next Season
The Big Ten's combination of big stadiums, big fan bases and big tradition has historically made football attendance a rather small issue.
America's two largest football venues -- Michigan Stadium and Beaver Stadium -- sit on Big Ten campuses, and three of the seven football stadiums with six-figure capacities are in the league (Ohio Stadium is the other). Michigan has led the nation in college football attendance for the past 15 years, and the Big Ten occupied three of the top five spots and seven of the top 23 spots in attendance average for the 2013 season.
The Big Ten in 2013 set records for total attendance (6,127,526) and attendance for league games (3,414,448), and ranked second behind the SEC in average attendance per game (70,431), a slight increase from 2012.
So what's the B1G deal? Eight of the 12 league programs saw a decline in average attendance last season. Some have seen numbers drop for several years. Student-section attendance is a growing concern, and the Big Ten is tracking the troubling national attendance trends...
Bills Could be Sold by July (NBCSports.com; Alper)
The state of New York has increased efforts to keep the Bills in Buffalo, extending a contractwith attorney Irwin Raij to work on getting a new stadium that would ensure the continued presence of the team after Ralph Wilson’s survivors sell the team.
“The governor wants to be prepared if there are any earlier offers to buy the team,” Lt. Gov. Robert Duffy said, via the Associated Press. “Our team is looking at sites now in Erie County, Buffalo, Niagara County. We’re just being prepared because we don’t know who the next owner will be. We’re not sure what the goals and the objectives of the next ownership team will be.”
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