Nobody really has any idea what to expect from this year's team and we have no superstars.
You’re not excited coming into a basketball season? That should never happen in the Cuse I don’t care where you think the program is.
I am much higher on Chris Bell than most people. The good thing about there being so many games is the ability to build enthusiasm as the season progresses and stars emerge.
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Fans are excited about football because football is still exciting. There will be a ton of hype for basketball once the team hits the court. It is hard to get excited about something when the majority of the news around basketball is player features.
I'm sure there will be! Just an interesting comparison in football receiving substantial offseason coverage/buzz both locally and nationally and hoops so little.
OIG sycophant.
what a season to be alive. julius hodge embarrassing us in the dome. ga tech dismantling us in atlanta. starting 16-2 and then completely dying and then going to the NIT f4.
I remember when we were both and would like to get back there.
The 1993 Syracuse basketball team was on probation so the hype was pretty low for that team but we ended up being pretty good. I can’t remember how the football team did that year but the 90s were the high water mark for football.
The football team was really good that year. Went 10-2 and finished top 10 after beating Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. That was the year of Gedney on the 3 yard line against Miami. We had playmakers on offense, a really good defense, and great special teams. We haven't had a team as complete since.
I loved that team. Couldn’t remember the year without looking it up. Thanks for the reminder.
The hype preceding 1992 was pretty high because we had gone 10-2 the year before with the big win over Florida in the Dome. We had the Kirby Dar Dar reverse on the kick off for a TD in that game and held them to negative rushing yards. A couple weeks later we were ranked 10th when we played at FSU and started off well with Ismail returning the opening kickoff for a TD, a quick stop on defense, and then a bomb to Ismail to set up a second TD. Then FSU turned it on and rolled us the rest of the way. I remember Amp Lee and Edgar Bennett running right through us on a muddy field. A What loss the next week to East Carolina was our second loss that year. 1993 was a big let down year. We started off ranked pretty high and I think Graves was mentioned as a Heisman candidate along side Charlie Ward but that was the year we transitioned from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Our LBs were young and woefully undersized. I think Nate Hemsley was moved from safety and somewhere around 195 lbs that year. I think that was the year WVU set a record for most rushing yards in the Dome.
