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Well, that was a long day. Played 18 at Green Lakes and then went immediately to the Fine Mess tailgate. Someone rear ended my car in the way there. Minor damage, no one was hurt. But I spent half my time at the tailgate filing a claim.
Anyway, the tailgate was very good. I think we had around 130 people attend. Good menu. Hot dogs, hamburgers, somewhat Philly style steak sandwiches and sausage with peppers and onions. Those there the mostly protein options.
They also had a thing of what looked like tortellini, salt potatoes, two kinds of lasagna and a couple other heavy carb options I tried to avoid looking at so I would not be tempted to partake. I think at least one was a casserole.
And ‘Louisiana’ Mark made some of his famous jambalaya. I ate some of this because if you gotta eat carbs, you need to be sure they are really delicious carbs.
There were lots of beer options provided by Justin. Lots of water and soda choices too including Diet Pepsi and yes, Diet Coke. Good to see everyone and talk to a bunch of you.
Headed up to the dome a little after six. It was a perfect fall day. The sky was a brilliant blue and there were just enough white clubs floating around to provide a nice contrast. The smell of fall was in the air and all was well with the world.
On the way I noticed that ESF owned parking lot is being used much more this year. Good for them. Guessing the lack of spots available in the West lots contributed to this.
Glad to see SUMB had 12 sousaphones performing yesterday. The SUMB sousas have their own Instagram account and from that I knew there were 12 of them but only 10 got out for UConn.
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SUMB was in solid form and as mentioned, the male and female members chose. To help lead the singing of the NA and alma mater have skills. They did their tribute to the Beatles show from last eeek again. Lady Madonna, Eleanor Rigby and Hey Jude were featured.
Colgate brought a good crowd. They filled most of lower visitor section and a good part of the section above it. God bless those people for showing up.
The students were late arriving again but ended up with a pretty good turnout by the end of the first quarter. They did the white out thing they are obsessed with again. Pretty much all by themselves. Poor communication or I think more might have bought in. I want to again campaign for an orange out on Halloween. Hope the students embrace this and accept the official color of this school is orange.
The turnout otherwise was okay but not great. I thought there were about 32k in the stands. I believe SU reported 37K.
Before the game, I was struck by the huge difference in the size of the players on each team. SU has been bigger than Colgate for many decades but I am not sure it has ever been to this degree. Not sure if Colgate has gotten smaller but we all know SU is a lot bigger than it has been in the past.
Let’s talk about the game.
SU dominated from the start.
I think Colgate realized they had no chance to stop our running game unless they loaded the box and relied on man coverage on the SU WRs. That did not work. Little that they tried worked on defense all game. Gill is probably 3 tenths of a second faster than any of the Colgate DBs and he is taller and jumps way higher. There were similar mismatches all over and Colgate was just not able to stop Syracuse. I believe Stonehouse was only asked to punt once (and he bombed it into the end zone).
Spoon got hurt early. I don’t think he returned. Pringle replaced him and it appeared he did a very capable job there. Of course, Mack is still out at LT so Betrand got the start. Miller filled in some. They looked okay to me.
Washington came in early and got a lot of PT at OG. Looked good too. I think Shevchenko played a lot in the second half at OT. SU played a ton of players. It was pretty cool to see guys like Darien and Dante get their first receptions and Hill was really impressive in the Carrie’s he had at RB. I think Carney only came in for one play but he made it count, running for a TD. There will be more in the future from these guys.
We played a ton of guys on defense and it wasn’t just at garbage time. Jaime Tremble played a lot at LB and looked impressive. Got a sack. He will get more of them.
Long played a lot and made a number of good plays. Wilson was active and had one of his best games. Lots of good play but I thought Samuel, playing man on an island most of the game, was our best player in defense. He made sticks in running plays, broke up passes and even got a pick. Which I think he should have gotten a TD on the return. Why did the refs blow the play dead? Throw the flag on the chop block on the frustrated Colgate player but don’t take away the chance to take it back all the way. Sigh. Thought the refs did a pretty good job otherwise….
Thought Angeli looked very good. Threw the ball very accurately. Made good decisions. Saw the field. He was 24-32 and I remember at least 4 good passes that were dropped.
Thought Rickie Collins looked solid when he was out there. Yes, it was a terrible decision to throw that pass to the Colgate defender. Not sure what he was thinking there. He does have a strong arm and sometimes these guys think they can throw the ball placed or should never be thrown. This might have been one of those times. But he ran it well and made solid decisions and throws otherwise. Glad he got a chance to play and hope he will learn from his experiences.
I think Fitzgerald is going to be very good at Colgate. Props to him and his team for trying hard in the second half, when they were able the leverage their talented 6’6 WR Swanson for some nice catches. That backup QB can throw and needs to be the starter soon. Hopefully Colgate can keep him there long enough to get good at the FCS level sometime soon.
Clemson is a huge jump up. Hopefully Cook, Grant, Willis and Mack will be able to play close to 100% for the game. I suspect not all will but a man can hope!
What else? The guy that is the game host for the Syracuse Mets and SU football ended up doing the football game. It has to pay more. He continued to do a good job. It
Helps having the microphone and sound system set up properly so he can be understood.
Good game. Gotta get better for next week.
Anyway, the tailgate was very good. I think we had around 130 people attend. Good menu. Hot dogs, hamburgers, somewhat Philly style steak sandwiches and sausage with peppers and onions. Those there the mostly protein options.
They also had a thing of what looked like tortellini, salt potatoes, two kinds of lasagna and a couple other heavy carb options I tried to avoid looking at so I would not be tempted to partake. I think at least one was a casserole.
And ‘Louisiana’ Mark made some of his famous jambalaya. I ate some of this because if you gotta eat carbs, you need to be sure they are really delicious carbs.
There were lots of beer options provided by Justin. Lots of water and soda choices too including Diet Pepsi and yes, Diet Coke. Good to see everyone and talk to a bunch of you.
Headed up to the dome a little after six. It was a perfect fall day. The sky was a brilliant blue and there were just enough white clubs floating around to provide a nice contrast. The smell of fall was in the air and all was well with the world.
On the way I noticed that ESF owned parking lot is being used much more this year. Good for them. Guessing the lack of spots available in the West lots contributed to this.
Glad to see SUMB had 12 sousaphones performing yesterday. The SUMB sousas have their own Instagram account and from that I knew there were 12 of them but only 10 got out for UConn.
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SUMB was in solid form and as mentioned, the male and female members chose. To help lead the singing of the NA and alma mater have skills. They did their tribute to the Beatles show from last eeek again. Lady Madonna, Eleanor Rigby and Hey Jude were featured.
Colgate brought a good crowd. They filled most of lower visitor section and a good part of the section above it. God bless those people for showing up.
The students were late arriving again but ended up with a pretty good turnout by the end of the first quarter. They did the white out thing they are obsessed with again. Pretty much all by themselves. Poor communication or I think more might have bought in. I want to again campaign for an orange out on Halloween. Hope the students embrace this and accept the official color of this school is orange.
The turnout otherwise was okay but not great. I thought there were about 32k in the stands. I believe SU reported 37K.
Before the game, I was struck by the huge difference in the size of the players on each team. SU has been bigger than Colgate for many decades but I am not sure it has ever been to this degree. Not sure if Colgate has gotten smaller but we all know SU is a lot bigger than it has been in the past.
Let’s talk about the game.
SU dominated from the start.
I think Colgate realized they had no chance to stop our running game unless they loaded the box and relied on man coverage on the SU WRs. That did not work. Little that they tried worked on defense all game. Gill is probably 3 tenths of a second faster than any of the Colgate DBs and he is taller and jumps way higher. There were similar mismatches all over and Colgate was just not able to stop Syracuse. I believe Stonehouse was only asked to punt once (and he bombed it into the end zone).
Spoon got hurt early. I don’t think he returned. Pringle replaced him and it appeared he did a very capable job there. Of course, Mack is still out at LT so Betrand got the start. Miller filled in some. They looked okay to me.
Washington came in early and got a lot of PT at OG. Looked good too. I think Shevchenko played a lot in the second half at OT. SU played a ton of players. It was pretty cool to see guys like Darien and Dante get their first receptions and Hill was really impressive in the Carrie’s he had at RB. I think Carney only came in for one play but he made it count, running for a TD. There will be more in the future from these guys.
We played a ton of guys on defense and it wasn’t just at garbage time. Jaime Tremble played a lot at LB and looked impressive. Got a sack. He will get more of them.
Long played a lot and made a number of good plays. Wilson was active and had one of his best games. Lots of good play but I thought Samuel, playing man on an island most of the game, was our best player in defense. He made sticks in running plays, broke up passes and even got a pick. Which I think he should have gotten a TD on the return. Why did the refs blow the play dead? Throw the flag on the chop block on the frustrated Colgate player but don’t take away the chance to take it back all the way. Sigh. Thought the refs did a pretty good job otherwise….
Thought Angeli looked very good. Threw the ball very accurately. Made good decisions. Saw the field. He was 24-32 and I remember at least 4 good passes that were dropped.
Thought Rickie Collins looked solid when he was out there. Yes, it was a terrible decision to throw that pass to the Colgate defender. Not sure what he was thinking there. He does have a strong arm and sometimes these guys think they can throw the ball placed or should never be thrown. This might have been one of those times. But he ran it well and made solid decisions and throws otherwise. Glad he got a chance to play and hope he will learn from his experiences.
I think Fitzgerald is going to be very good at Colgate. Props to him and his team for trying hard in the second half, when they were able the leverage their talented 6’6 WR Swanson for some nice catches. That backup QB can throw and needs to be the starter soon. Hopefully Colgate can keep him there long enough to get good at the FCS level sometime soon.
Clemson is a huge jump up. Hopefully Cook, Grant, Willis and Mack will be able to play close to 100% for the game. I suspect not all will but a man can hope!
What else? The guy that is the game host for the Syracuse Mets and SU football ended up doing the football game. It has to pay more. He continued to do a good job. It
Helps having the microphone and sound system set up properly so he can be understood.
Good game. Gotta get better for next week.
