Small World for Syracuse Basketball

[mayselc]

So I was walking my dog in a the park next to my house tonight in Wilmington, Delaware, wearing my Syracuse hoodie. A woman walking her dog said "Go Orange" and I mentioned the UCONN game.

She then said, "I used to coach women's basketball there." Turns out it was Marianna Freeman. She lives in my neighborhood and runs a community center in Wilmington.

We chatted a bit about the team. She thinks Cooney will be very good and likes their chances this year.

The Orange are everywhere!

 

[orange79]

Interesting. I wondered where she went - didn't seem to turn up with any coaching jobs.

 

[stuckinbig11]

You might run into my daughter in DC wearing an SU shirt also.

 

[sufandu]

Since I've been living in Knoxville, I've been surprised at how many people have told me they're from the syracuse area after they see me wearing a 'cuse shirt. I probably wear more orange (real orange) down here than I did back home. One older guy saw me one day and told me he and his wife were alumi. I asked if he was there during the Jim Brown or Ernie Davis days. He said he graduated with "Jimmy Brown" and never missed a home game.

 

[Zelda Zonk]

Hey there. Nice to see another Delawarian-ite on the board. I grew up in Hockessin. A few minutes walk from Sanford HS, where Cooney played.

 

[M2MPrinciples]

In Kansas City, there aren't many SU alums (I think I met 5 from the area in my four years at school, and there's a small pocket of others), but there are three who host local sports talk shows.

 

[CUSEBB1]

Not bad for being a small private school in Southern Canada (Syracuse).I think 80 percent the license plates i see on campus are Jersey plates.Shockingly i have seen more and more California plates around.Quite a few from Texas as well.Not to mention the 100,000 folks that have moved away from here.And if them people moved for a job its fine.If they moved cause the weather, then good riddens.No wimps allowed.

 

[wfschrec]

I've bumped into Cuse alums here in GA ... heck my neighbor is from the Albany area ... small small world indeed.

 

[JoeSU]

Slower/Lower Delawarean (Lewes-Rehoboth area). I've developed am SU connection with several of the on-air personalities at the local TV station (WBOC out of Salisbury, MD) who were Newhouse grads.

 

[BlackKnight76]

Not bad for being a small private school in Southern Canada (Syracuse).I think 80 percent the license plates i see on campus are Jersey plates.Shockingly i have seen more and more California plates around.Quite a few from Texas as well.Not to mention the 100,000 folks that have moved away from here.And if them people moved for a job its fine.If they moved cause the weather, then good riddens.No wimps allowed.

The University has been going hard after CA students for a few years now.


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[Shermthegeneral]

I was in Philly in the summer for 2 days and I was either wearing a SU visor or a t-shirt and about 8 people stopped me and said they either went to SU or their kid did. My wife and I couldn't believe how many people kept stopping us.

 

[CuseTroop]

I had a guy chase me down in Yellowstone because I was wearing an SU shirt. Said there he had met another guy in a corvette club who was also a cuse fan. I've met a few here in Alaska too

 

[EastCoast2]

I rock Cuse gear all the time in Baltimore, get frequent chants and waves

 

[jekelish]

The only thing like that I've gotten down here in Texas was when I was at one of the few local bars in my town about four or five years ago, wearing a Syracuse hoody, and this guy says, "oh, I was a graduate assistant there."

Of course, he didn't realize that he was talking to the very definition of a Syracuse superfan, so I knew he was 100% full of , but it was still pretty funny to me.