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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 5203, member: 780"] I watched that SU vs. BC game from the first row in the upper deck of the Dome. Not the best seats, but good for giving a real picture of what is going on. For the life of me I can't think of any lessons from that game except that we better recruit a lot of bigger, stronger guys than we had on the field that day. BC manhandled Syracuse. It seemed to me their defensive and offensive lines overpowered the Orange. I went back and tried to see if the game statistics would support the impression I had. BC was 11 of 18 on third down conversions. SU was 2 of 9 on third down conversions (22%) Yup, they manhandled us. They did dominate possession as OrangePA points out, 71 plays to 51. Again, because we couldn't stop them. They punted 3 times. That's not a lot. Syracuse punted 7 times. What offense we had came from the passing game. But when we needed a first down, we couldn't get it. [/QUOTE]