Oddest questions about SU sports...

[cto]

As SU fans, we've all heard people ask odd and/or dumb questions about SU sports (both inside and outside the media). During this period of off-season doldums, I tried to remember the oddest/dumbest I've heard. In no particular order they were: 1) Are Dick McPherson and Don McPherson related? (asked repeatedly during the mid-1980's) ... and 2) Are you Coach Boeheim's daughther? (asked of Juli by someone I had just introduced to her).

I'm sure you guys can remember some better ones.

 

[Toga]

No air conditioning?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Is the University related to William of Orange?

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Were Andy Rautins and Macky McPherson only recruited because they were legacies.

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[LPOrange]

Is JAB jewish?

 

[NineOneSeven]

Was Carmelo Anthony a bust?



(inside joke, all credit to strumpfasaurus).

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Was Jonny Flynn only recruited so Cuse would sign Paul Harris.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

Why do you have a fruit for a mascot?

 

[moqui]

was Dajuan Coleman only recruited as a favor to his father, Derrick?

 

[realorange]

Doesn't Syracuse ever play outside of NYS before January?

 

[oldpinepoint]

Does the Carrier Dome serve beer?

 

[SgtCuse]

"What channel is the game on?" That one is asked on the board during the season and usually during a Big Monday game. Always makes me wonder sometimes :noidea:

 

[NKR1978]

Why did you destroy the Big East?

Because apparently I personally made that decision myself.

 

[kuethstheman]

How come Boeheim can't win the big one?

 

[DoubleDee]

The woman behind me at basketball, after a basket, will often ask it that was Demetris Nichols? As recent as this year.

 

[Phillymoose]

"I had never even heard of Syracuse until I found out we were playing y'all"

- - Said to me by an Auburn fan on Bourbon St. (late Dec. 1987)

 

[slidingdown]

"How can you root for Syracuse when Devendorf is such a thug?"

UConn fan, BET, 2009.

 

[CusefanATL]

Was Jonny Flynn only recruited so Cuse would sign Paul Harris.

it certainly didnt hurt... no?

 

[cliftonparksufan]

"I had never even heard of Syracuse until I found out we were playing y'all"

- - Said to me by an Auburn fan on Bourbon St. (late Dec. 1987)

And Syracuse is a suburb of NYC...said by everyone else who failed geography in 5th grade.

 

[cuseincincy]

Syracuse? What country's that in?

 

[cuseincincy]

As SU fans, we've all heard people ask odd and/or dumb questions about SU sports (both inside and outside the media). During this period of off-season doldums, I tried to remember the oddest/dumbest I've heard. In no particular order they were: 1) Are Dick McPherson and Don McPherson related? (asked repeatedly during the mid-1980's) ...

I usually answered that, No, Coach MacPherson is not related to Don McPherson by overpronouncing the MACKPherson and the MICKPherson and also stating "but they do look alike."

 

[HyattsCuse]

So how far is Syracuse from NYC? Wait, so Washington DC is closer to NYC? (several of my friends here in the DC area)

 

[Scooch]

Not a question, but many people think SU is a huge, state school.

 

[adk(roc)CUSE]

As SU fans, we've all heard people ask odd and/or dumb questions about SU sports (both inside and outside the media). During this period of off-season doldums, I tried to remember the oddest/dumbest I've heard. In no particular order they were: 1) Are Dick McPherson and Don McPherson related? (asked repeatedly during the mid-1980's) ... and 2) Are you Coach Boeheim's daughther? (asked of Juli by someone I had just introduced to her).

I'm sure you guys can remember some better ones.

Yikes!!!! How incredibly awkward that Juli Boeheim introduction must have been!

 

[IthacaMatt]

As SU fans, we've all heard people ask odd and/or dumb questions about SU sports (both inside and outside the media). During this period of off-season doldums, I tried to remember the oddest/dumbest I've heard. In no particular order they were: 1) Are Dick McPherson and Don McPherson related? (asked repeatedly during the mid-1980's) ... and 2) Are you Coach Boeheim's daughther? (asked of Juli by someone I had just introduced to her).

I'm sure you guys can remember some better ones.

I remember the Auburn football fans thought Syracuse was a suburb of NYC when they played at the Dome after 9/11.