My Take

[shu 49]

We are going to smash Yukon. The RBs were not the main problem against the blitz. It was as if the OL could not zone block.

They would turn their body towards a guy to double him instead of staying square in your gap looking for someonein your erea. yeah help eith one hand while still keeping your spot. Collins 1 or 2x i think and then the florida st kid did it and all ended up sacks

 

[NJCuse97]

Nothing to understand, where is the proof? Do you have insider information?

Clemson got $5M, with an incentive for more tickets sold last year. Clemson sold out its 25k tickets. Do you think we did? How many tickets do you think we sold? With attendance at less than 50k, nearly impossible. Would we have even guaranteed 10k tickets sold? If so, why would they pay $5M to us?

https://www.islandpacket.com/sports/college/acc/article291650445.html.

I cannot find anything suggesting travel expenses are paid. I am sure they work out something for hotels and in-city travel. But I am questioning whether they pay for airfare, etc. And if they did, for how many people? Just players and staff? Did the school have to pay for family of staff? And so on.

And then you have the fact that some people might travel to Atlanta at the expense of traveling to Syracuse later in the year for a home game. And then the broader community cost of not having a home game to generate hotel/restaurant revenue. I am sure that it nets an advantage at the end of the day or we would not have done it. But is it such a clear revenue boost that it outweighs every other consideration?

We have been taking neutral site season openers for years. It certainly isn’t because we lose money on them. We stopped after our opener with GT in 2001 at Giants Stadium. We played USC in 1990, and Wisconsin in 1997 in the same game (the 1997 game is where Fran Brown became aware of Syracuse because of Camden native Donovin Darius).

We played several at Yankee Stadium and MetLife against strong opponents like USC, Penn State, and ND. All were done for money, publicity, … then alumni networking. The proof is in the repeating of the behavior.

Family of staff? Whenever I go on a business trip, my family stays home and if I decide to bring them, it’s definitely on me.

I don’t think the private university’s concern is the economic impact it has on the greater Syracuse region, especially conglomerate hotel groups, especially in the face of the State Fair which ended 2 days after the game was played.

 

[jr4750]

i remember beating Wisky and ron dayne at a neutral site to open 97 then coming back to the dome only to get upset by NC st.

Fran Brown was at that game too.

 

[OrangeMojo]

I don't know yet that we had a much better team. I think we had more established stars, but I think our lines are more physical this year. On offense we may be less explosive but better at grinding. On defense we need to find a pass rush, but we may be better aganst the run. I know we gave up some big plays on the ground to TN, but they're probably a more physical team than any we played last year.

Agree - definitely think this year’s team is much better at running the ball. Last year’s team would’ve been stuffed at the line over and over against that defense while this year’s team was consistently getting 4 or 5 yards per carry even when UT knew what was coming.

 

[upperdeck]

If we show that we can run vs UConn then I will start to think the Oline can be solid.

We didn't open up gaping holes but we also didnt get pushed into the backfield.

The one thing though was when it came push to shove at the goal line we had a bunch of tries and couldn't get it in without running wide.

 

[Qbobby]

We were able to take the Tennessee dline to a standstill in the run game. They weren't hitting the backs as soon as they were getting handoffs and we had a solid ypc for the game. That may be the best or certainly one of the best d lines we will see all year. I think the upgrade will be very obvious for our line this season when we start playing defenses that are not nearly as talented as Tennessee's is.

Overall I am happy with what we showed. Had some mistakes, but after the first quarter of mistakes/nerves/rust we basically played them to a draw. That's my takeaway from the game. Physically we should dominate the UConn defense and rush for 250+ yards against them. Make them play 8 or 9 in the box and then kill them over the top or with slants or crosses behind the linebackers.

If we can play decent defense we should win this by at least two scores. Our time of possession should be 2-1 and their defense should get gassed by the 4th quarter