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Message: [QUOTE="SUDadx2, post: 3941137, member: 8174"] I understand the premise that every player except to 2021 freshman class is actually a year older than their eligibility class. My position that we are young is based on two things. [LIST] [*]The number of potential years a player could still be in the SU program. This is based on a players athletic eligibility, not the players academic year; a RS-Fr athletically is likely a junior academically. But, I count such a player as "young" because the player could possibly be in the program for another three years. [*]I consider our team as "young" in comparison to many of the teams we play. Sure our RS-Fr have some great experience (and more than a RS-Fr in previous years), but not as much experience as our opponent's RS-Jr's and RS-Sr's. Our experienced players are younger and possibly less experienced than our opponents players. [/LIST] Consider this. According to the two-deep roster we released yesterday and the two-deep roster Rutgers released yesterday (I was unable locate a two-deep depth chart for Ohio), our players are younger than Rutger's. [TABLE] [TR] [TD]Eligibility year[/TD] [TD]Rutgers - 46 players[/TD] [TD]Syracuse - 47 players[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Gr, RS-Sr, Sr[/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]18 (13*)[/CENTER] [/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]6 (5)[/CENTER] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]RS-Jr, Jr[/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]14 (8)[/CENTER] [/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]8 (4)[/CENTER] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]RS-So, So[/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]6 (-)[/CENTER] [/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]12 (5)[/CENTER] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]RS-Fr, Fr[/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]8 (1)[/CENTER] [/TD] [TD][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [CENTER]21 (8)[/CENTER] [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] * Projected starters are listed in parentheses. Although our freshman and sophomores have more experience than our freshmen and sophomores from previous years, our two-deep roster is clearly "younger" than the two-deep roster of Rutgers. Every team got a free year last year, not just Syracuse. I suspect this will be the case as we compare our two-deep against our opponents each week, thus my belief is we are young, but our future is potentially very bright. My prognostication for our record this year has been recorded in various posts on this board. In the Cali-Award thread I predicted a 6-6 record. [URL unfurl="true"]https://syracusefan.com/threads/2021-2022-cali-award-predictions.162474/post-3940221[/URL] I also put some $$ on the over when the initial over/under was 3.5 back in July. This is posted somewhere. Although this team may not perform to the hopes and desires of every diehard Syracuse fan, I believe this team will exceed the "experts" expectations. [/QUOTE]

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