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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
Firstly, Coach, I’d like to thank you for your patient and thoughtful answers to our questions through a difficult season. I’ve noticed two tendencies: you won’t reveal anything that might be of interest to an opponent and you want both praise and blame to be shared by the team and not be about individuals or even groups. You are correct to point out that a player who made a bad play at the end of a game didn’t lose it all by himself. Even the results of a particular play can be impacted by things the fans never see involving other players. And if all the attention goes to one guy, your team becomes less of a team. You understand this and that’s why we respect you so much and want you to succeed here.
I’ll end my Errol Flynn binge with his most famous film, “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, still another story of the good guys triumphing over bad times and great odds to triumph in the end. I believe that there are players on this year’s team who will be on the next really good SU team. We should be proud of all of our teams but this season hasn’t been much fun and we aren’t a band of “merry men” right now but we will someday if we stick with it.
On this last show I’ll make my annual pitch for a two running back backfield. I grew up with Floyd Little pairing with first Jim Nance and then Larry Csonka with the bigger man doing most of the running between the tackles and the faster man running wide or catching passes and the defenses having to deal with both. We went with pocket passers and a single running back this year and it wasn’t enough. Sean Tucker seems like a special talent and you’ve got a high school recruit who runs like he’s Derrick Henry at that level and might do the same here. That would be a load for defenses to deal with, especially if they are geared to stop the spread. You could still bring in a slot guy on third down. Just something to think about.
Finally I’ll ask, with the transfer portal about to become a cornucopia, what role will it play in your plans to acquire talent for future years? We discussed last week how the best players don’t seem to stay for four years anymore. What percentage of your players are likely to be traditional high school recruits and what percent age are likely to be transfers in the future?
(Note: This week’s show will be on Wednesday because of the basketball game tomorrow. The first Jim Boeheim Show is not scheduled yet. The best the station could tell me was that it would be in ”mid-December”.)
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
Firstly, Coach, I’d like to thank you for your patient and thoughtful answers to our questions through a difficult season. I’ve noticed two tendencies: you won’t reveal anything that might be of interest to an opponent and you want both praise and blame to be shared by the team and not be about individuals or even groups. You are correct to point out that a player who made a bad play at the end of a game didn’t lose it all by himself. Even the results of a particular play can be impacted by things the fans never see involving other players. And if all the attention goes to one guy, your team becomes less of a team. You understand this and that’s why we respect you so much and want you to succeed here.
I’ll end my Errol Flynn binge with his most famous film, “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, still another story of the good guys triumphing over bad times and great odds to triumph in the end. I believe that there are players on this year’s team who will be on the next really good SU team. We should be proud of all of our teams but this season hasn’t been much fun and we aren’t a band of “merry men” right now but we will someday if we stick with it.
On this last show I’ll make my annual pitch for a two running back backfield. I grew up with Floyd Little pairing with first Jim Nance and then Larry Csonka with the bigger man doing most of the running between the tackles and the faster man running wide or catching passes and the defenses having to deal with both. We went with pocket passers and a single running back this year and it wasn’t enough. Sean Tucker seems like a special talent and you’ve got a high school recruit who runs like he’s Derrick Henry at that level and might do the same here. That would be a load for defenses to deal with, especially if they are geared to stop the spread. You could still bring in a slot guy on third down. Just something to think about.
Finally I’ll ask, with the transfer portal about to become a cornucopia, what role will it play in your plans to acquire talent for future years? We discussed last week how the best players don’t seem to stay for four years anymore. What percentage of your players are likely to be traditional high school recruits and what percent age are likely to be transfers in the future?
(Note: This week’s show will be on Wednesday because of the basketball game tomorrow. The first Jim Boeheim Show is not scheduled yet. The best the station could tell me was that it would be in ”mid-December”.)
