Next Two Games

[TexanMark]

We are playing wounded Tigers on the road. Both coaches are fighting for their jobs.

Cuse's season either elevates (2-0), muddles along (1-1) or craters (0-2).

Time to be all in...Fans attending, let's be heard on TV!

 

[Rocco]

I would say that ALL of the momentum continues or dies this weekend. We HAVE to beat USF. Nothing else matters just yet.

Fly to Tampa, beat USF, come out injury-free, fly home safely is an ideal scenario.

 

[CuseCrew08]

Agreed, all positive momentum we've gained in the past two weeks would come to a screeching halt if we come out flat and lose to USF. I am a little worried about it to be honest... Young team on the road for the first time?

We need to come out fast and bury them early, USF will quit if they go down a couple scores in the 1st half.

 

[TheCusian]

Here's why I'm hopeful.

Our offensive system is very hard to defend:

- Teams have to prepare for the option (requires discipline)
- Teams have to deal with the XB lining up everywhere (and with Erv back, that role changes again) (requires discipline and game tape of Erv - URI was very vanilla. I'm also not convinced we've seen even 60% of what this could be.)
- Teams have to deal with a devastating play action off of all that (requires discipline)
- Dungey can do all of that AND make something out of nothing (requires a cheap shot to the head to stop apparently)

Our defense is poor against the pass but:

- USF can't pass that well

 

[GoSU96]

We are playing wounded Tigers on the road. Both coaches are fighting for their jobs.

Cuse's season either elevates (2-0), muddles along (1-1) or craters (0-2).

Time to be all in...Fans attending, let's be heard on TV!

Need Pitt to win this week. UVA 1-4 at home, a lot of negative energy, should be a low attendence, dispirited crowd just looking for a reason to turn on their team.

 

[jr4750]

Need Pitt to win this week. UVA 1-4 at home, a lot of negative energy, should be a low attendence, dispirited crowd just looking for a reason to turn on their team.

double edged sword with our pursuit of Chris Clark... Guess a W at UVA is more important, than a Pitt win this week, and positive reinforcement for his recruitment there.

 

[KaiserUEO]

all i know about our offensive system is that when things breakdown...dungey seems to be pretty good at creating peaches and cream out of shlit.

problem is, hes only thrown about 40 passes so the body of work is pretty small.

from what ive seen of lester, hes been able to work the 2nd, 3rd and even 4th string QB into his offense and hasnt seem to miss a beat.

thats encouraging.

the goofy part of the schedule is over...d1aa, crappy acc, crappier mac and an absolute powerhouse...so now its time to play real football v our peers.

lets see.....

 

[jekelish]

double edged sword with our pursuit of Chris Clark... Guess a W at UVA is more important, than a Pitt win this week, and positive reinforcement for his recruitment there.

What's most important with Chris Clark is that we're 5-1, because if we're 5-1 and coming back home to play Pitt...there's a good chance there'll be a real crowd at the Dome. Clark is coming back specifically to see what the game day atmosphere is like before deciding. The atmosphere needs to be absolutely as good as possible.

 

[orange_in_VA]

Need Pitt to win this week. UVA 1-4 at home, a lot of negative energy, should be a low attendence, dispirited crowd just looking for a reason to turn on their team.

UVA is going to be a big crowd for their homecoming

 

[GoSU96]

What's most important with Chris Clark is that we're 5-1, because if we're 5-1 and coming back home to play Pitt...there's a good chance there'll be a real crowd at the Dome. Clark is coming back specifically to see what the game day atmosphere is like before deciding. The atmosphere needs to be absolutely as good as possible.

SU and Pitt with one loss each will be huge.

 

[mountaincuse]

What's most important with Chris Clark is that we're 5-1, because if we're 5-1 and coming back home to play Pitt...there's a good chance there'll be a real crowd at the Dome. Clark is coming back specifically to see what the game day atmosphere is like before deciding. The atmosphere needs to be absolutely as good as possible.

Agreed - funny thing is though that Pitt's atmosphere is garbage and they don;t even play on campus. Anything has to be better than that.

 

[Rocco]

Need Pitt to win this week.

Pretty sure I would never hope for that. I want them to lose every game the rest of their existence.

 

[Brian Orange]

I agree with everyone in this thread. That said I would be OK with coming out of these games at 1-1.

 

[TexanMark]

What's most important with Chris Clark is that we're 5-1, because if we're 5-1 and coming back home to play Pitt...there's a good chance there'll be a real crowd at the Dome. Clark is coming back specifically to see what the game day atmosphere is like before deciding. The atmosphere needs to be absolutely as good as possible.

Nah...Syracuse fans never bandwagon for important games...

Agreed...if Cuse is 5-1 I could see a good TV slot and 40k+ real bodies

SU could help themselves with a tix push the week leading up.

 

[TexanMark]

I agree with everyone in this thread. That said I would be OK with coming out of these games at 1-1.

Nah...that would only be marginal. The quicker Cuse gets to 6 wins the better.

 

[jekelish]

Nah...that would only be marginal. The quicker Cuse gets to 6 wins the better.

Agreed. We get to 6 wins by Halloween, and we're playing with house money the rest of the season.

 

[Crusty]

Control the controllables - make a lot of noise from our section of 200 strong. Let'em hear "Let's Go Orange" on TV over and over.

 

[SUFaninNJ]

Agreed. We get to 6 wins by Halloween, and we're playing with house money the rest of the season.

I literally would be as I put money down in Vegas this summer on Cuse at 4.5wins!

 

[bothsocksup]

I swear when we beat USF in Tampa during Marrones tenure we officially turned the corner

 

[cusefan88]

I swear when we beat USF in Tampa during Marrones tenure we officially turned the corner

The 13-9 win in 2010? Loved that game. Gutsy drive down the whole field to win it. Antwon Bailey was great that day.

 

[jgeorge322]

Agreed. We get to 6 wins by Halloween, and we're playing with house money the rest of the season.

This is a captain obvious statement. 1-1 wouldnt be fatal but really need to beat usf.

 

[bothsocksup]

The 13-9 win in 2010? Loved that game. Gutsy drive down the whole field to win it. Antwon Bailey was great that day.

yep, what a staetment win it was. That drive was systematic. Took up the entire 4th quarter and put up 7 when we needed it

 

[zjscuse]

Ya know every damn night i tell my gf, goodnight hun, im so tired, im going to pass out as soon as i hang up, its been a long day.. get ready for bed, get under the sheets. lay there for about 5 mins then tell myself .. I guess it wouldnt hurt to read a couple of forums on syracuse fan fer 5 minsss its only 11pm the nights young... i only have to wake up at 5 a.m every morning and climb 2-300 ft up a cellphone tower everyday !!!!! what could possibly go wrong ?!?!

But But is eric dungey going to comeback just as strong? how well is our secondary going to hold up? can we stop the run..the controllables oooooo the controllables ... whos the new hot target in recruiting .. can we swing chris clark are way ... . does scott shafer sleep behind an actual locked gate inside a brick wall behind a moat filled with alligators that he effortlessly breaks through every day on his way to work? ill never know!... THE OFFENSE!!!! can the offense keep up the momentu..msdjanfbdfbsdnjklfmsakbhsdb jvcn asdbfvwehgvfkyuwehdjkewndjkcb

 

[Finwad32]

The 13-9 win in 2010? Loved that game. Gutsy drive down the whole field to win it. Antwon Bailey was great that day.

Max Suter had a big kick return that day right?

 

[cusefan88]

Max Suter had a big kick return that day right?

Looks like he was DPOTW