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Coach Babers’s show this year show will be Thursday nights at 7PM except when the game is not on a Saturday.
I’ll be summarizing the comments directly related to the team and the next game (late) on the night of the broadcast and anything else interesting the next day, (if there is anything else that seems interesting). I’ll have a “first hour” and a “second hour” question.
They are doing the show on Zoom, not at any local restaurant.
You can also listen to the show live each week on the Syracuse IMG Sports Network and Cuse.com. Wednesday's show will be on 99.1 FM and 97.7 FM, as well. The show will regularly air on 99.5FM (Syracuse) 99.1 FM (Utica) and 1200 AM.”
You can also get it on: Home | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
There hasn’t been any change in the phone numbers, which last year were 315-424-8599 (local) or 1-888-746-2873. You can call to ask questions or submit them via Twitter at: https://twitter.com/CuseIMG
#AskDino or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
You can (or could last year, anyway), listen to a podcast of the show, probably the next day, at: Search results for babers | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
I’ve been asked to continue doing the summaries, even by people who listen to the podcasts. I may focus on the major points, rather than trying to record everything.
My Question(s) or Comments
First, coach, two memories.
I first convinced my father to take me to an SU football game in 1964. We were playing an undefeated UCLA team. It was a beautiful, sunny fall day to start with. SU dominated the ball in the first half but had trouble punching it in and only led 6-0 late in the half. UCLA punted and Floyd Little caught the ball at his own 9 yard line and started down the sideline. One UCLA player had the angle and moved to pin Floyd against the sideline. But #35, Jim Nance had spotted him and was on the way. He hit the guy so hard he launched him into the air. Floyd ducked and ran under the airborn Bruin, cut across the field and out-ran everyone to the goal line. That broke the game open and we went on to win, 39-0. As the score mounted, the weather got worse, going from sunny to cloudy to rain to sleet to snow. I looked at the UCLA sideline and all those surfer dudes looked like the coldest people on earth.
In 1985, Dick MacPherson put together a defensive backfield of four freshmen: Chris Ingram, Jeff Mangrum, Cooper Gardiner and Markus Paul. Eventually Gardenier was injured and was replaced by another player in the same class, David Holmes. We watched them grow up from promising athletes who made mistakes to, by 1987, a veteran group that shut down passing attacks and allowed the defensive line to get coverage sack after coverage sack. Their maturation, under Markus Paul’s leadership, was a big reason for our breakthrough 11-0 season of 1987 and the 10-2 follow-up of 1988, which set us up for 15 wining years in a row. (I’d hoped to see something similar from Trill Williams, Andre Cisco, Eric Coley and Iffy Melifonwu but these are different times.)
My Errol Flynn movie reference for the week is The Sea Hawk, (1940), where Errol and his crew get captured due to treachery and find themselves pushing oars in a Spanish galleon amid great misery. But they rebel against their captors, take over the ship and sail it back to England in time for Errol to have a terrific swordfight with the traitor and for he and his men to join the fight against the Spanish Armada with the Queen making the 16th century equivalent of a great locker-room speech.
The name of this game is football and one way to look at games is how many times the two teams kicked the ball and what kind of kicks they were. Louisville kicked the ball 16 times and 3 of them were punts. We kicked the ball 7 times and 6 of them were punts. The other was the second half kick-off. Andre Szmyt had the game off. The key guys on our offensive line include 2 seniors, 2 juniors and 2 sophomores, both of whom were starters last year. I’d like your evaluation of them as a group in terms of their development into those elephants you want them to be, their current state of health: are injuries holding them back? Also, what was your opinion of their performance against Louisville?
(Note: This week’s show will be on Wednesday. The first Jim Boeheim Show is not scheduled yet. The best the station could tell me was that it would be in ”mid-December”)
The Show
(I sometimes re-arrange the comments so that statements made on the same subject are reported together, even if they came at different points of the show.)
I’ll be summarizing the comments directly related to the team and the next game (late) on the night of the broadcast and anything else interesting the next day, (if there is anything else that seems interesting). I’ll have a “first hour” and a “second hour” question.
They are doing the show on Zoom, not at any local restaurant.
You can also listen to the show live each week on the Syracuse IMG Sports Network and Cuse.com. Wednesday's show will be on 99.1 FM and 97.7 FM, as well. The show will regularly air on 99.5FM (Syracuse) 99.1 FM (Utica) and 1200 AM.”
You can also get it on: Home | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
There hasn’t been any change in the phone numbers, which last year were 315-424-8599 (local) or 1-888-746-2873. You can call to ask questions or submit them via Twitter at: https://twitter.com/CuseIMG
#AskDino or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
You can (or could last year, anyway), listen to a podcast of the show, probably the next day, at: Search results for babers | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
I’ve been asked to continue doing the summaries, even by people who listen to the podcasts. I may focus on the major points, rather than trying to record everything.
My Question(s) or Comments
First, coach, two memories.
I first convinced my father to take me to an SU football game in 1964. We were playing an undefeated UCLA team. It was a beautiful, sunny fall day to start with. SU dominated the ball in the first half but had trouble punching it in and only led 6-0 late in the half. UCLA punted and Floyd Little caught the ball at his own 9 yard line and started down the sideline. One UCLA player had the angle and moved to pin Floyd against the sideline. But #35, Jim Nance had spotted him and was on the way. He hit the guy so hard he launched him into the air. Floyd ducked and ran under the airborn Bruin, cut across the field and out-ran everyone to the goal line. That broke the game open and we went on to win, 39-0. As the score mounted, the weather got worse, going from sunny to cloudy to rain to sleet to snow. I looked at the UCLA sideline and all those surfer dudes looked like the coldest people on earth.
In 1985, Dick MacPherson put together a defensive backfield of four freshmen: Chris Ingram, Jeff Mangrum, Cooper Gardiner and Markus Paul. Eventually Gardenier was injured and was replaced by another player in the same class, David Holmes. We watched them grow up from promising athletes who made mistakes to, by 1987, a veteran group that shut down passing attacks and allowed the defensive line to get coverage sack after coverage sack. Their maturation, under Markus Paul’s leadership, was a big reason for our breakthrough 11-0 season of 1987 and the 10-2 follow-up of 1988, which set us up for 15 wining years in a row. (I’d hoped to see something similar from Trill Williams, Andre Cisco, Eric Coley and Iffy Melifonwu but these are different times.)
My Errol Flynn movie reference for the week is The Sea Hawk, (1940), where Errol and his crew get captured due to treachery and find themselves pushing oars in a Spanish galleon amid great misery. But they rebel against their captors, take over the ship and sail it back to England in time for Errol to have a terrific swordfight with the traitor and for he and his men to join the fight against the Spanish Armada with the Queen making the 16th century equivalent of a great locker-room speech.
The name of this game is football and one way to look at games is how many times the two teams kicked the ball and what kind of kicks they were. Louisville kicked the ball 16 times and 3 of them were punts. We kicked the ball 7 times and 6 of them were punts. The other was the second half kick-off. Andre Szmyt had the game off. The key guys on our offensive line include 2 seniors, 2 juniors and 2 sophomores, both of whom were starters last year. I’d like your evaluation of them as a group in terms of their development into those elephants you want them to be, their current state of health: are injuries holding them back? Also, what was your opinion of their performance against Louisville?
(Note: This week’s show will be on Wednesday. The first Jim Boeheim Show is not scheduled yet. The best the station could tell me was that it would be in ”mid-December”)
The Show
(I sometimes re-arrange the comments so that statements made on the same subject are reported together, even if they came at different points of the show.)
