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[OrangeXtreme]

It's Game Week for 'Cuse Football! - Syracuse University Athletics

Year two of the Coach Fran era officially kicks off on Saturday when --/rv Syracuse takes on No. 24/18 Tennessee at 12 p.m. in the Aflac Kickoff Game in Merc...

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[DocFlanders]

Mark Packer used to give us props; and he loved Coach Fran. He is gone now. I think, unless we get ranked, we are not going to be seeing much of Cuse Athletics.

Mark Packer used to give us props; and he loved Coach Fran. He is gone now. I think, unless we get ranked, we are not going to be seeing much of Cuse Athletics.

Yep still remember when Fran was hired and shortly thereafter I met Packer on a flight from Miami to Charlotte and he gushed over Fran and his recruiting chops. Super nice guy and well grounded, legit thought Fran was a monumental out of the box hire

 

[Ragman2000]

I totally missed the news that Packer retired. What a shame, he was really great. Good for him on a personal level though.

 

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[SUalldway]

Not sure where to post this, so I’ll post it here.

ACC SU coverage, or lack thereof, still amazes me.

I just watched ACC PM on ACC network on the Monday before the full season opener weekend. A Syracuse team coming off a 10 win season and about to play ranked Tennessee, gets barely a mention. They gave Wake Forest as much airtime as Cuse. They covered all the other ranked matchups with their proper due and covered VT vs SC more than SU vs Tenn. It’s remarkable.

I get that we’ve lost a lot and have a tough schedule, so they don’t expect much from us, but the ACC conspiracy against Cuse might actually have merit. It’s unbelievable. It was a full 35 min into the program before SU got a simple passing mention. Nothing more.

On the prior program with Roddy Jones and EJ Manuel, you’d think that northeast football doesn’t even exist. It’s crazy.

It’s disappointing because I remember looking forward to getting ACCN to receive more and better SU coverage but it’s never materialized, even after Fran has made Cuse a compelling story.

Have we gotten a bit more coverage? Sure, but not in proportion to our success and certainly not in proportion to our week one matchup. They’re more interested in Duke still. Just bs.

Roddy Jones and EJ Manuel should be relegated to third string at best

 

[HtownOrange]

A couple of things I noticed in the articles today.

Dave Jacobs is teaching Fran's son how to snap. Dave always got a lot of crap on the board and some said "he never gave back". Putting aside for the moment that he gave back on the field, he also worked with a number of our kickers through the years. You don't know about that because he never felt it necessary to shine a spotlight on himself for helping with the team the way that some do...

But he has helped.

The other thing was the guy...new maybe?...who said that for the past 40 years, SU was a basketball school. It is true that JB's success was legendary, but apparently the guy missed the 15 year period starting with 1987.

We had one 11-win season, four 10-win seasons, three 9-win seasons, and two 8-win seasons. We also went to 12 bowls in an era where you didn't get a bowl bid simply for having a pulse, a .500 record, and no other plans for December.

That was a truly golden era for SU football, it featured many of the true greats, and lengthy success that was only duplicated in Ben's years before he fell off a cliff.

While true that he haven't done much lately, to act like the entire last 40 years was a washout is not true.

Well said, sir. Well said.

 

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[Frozen]

The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta used a dolphin to predict the winner of Saturday’s game. Spoiler: it picked Tennessee. I’ll see this dolphin in hell, or my next tuna sandwich.

WATE 6 On Your Side

 

[Cusepats]

The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta used a dolphin to predict the winner of Saturday’s game. Spoiler: it picked Tennessee. I’ll see this dolphin in hell, or my next tuna sandwich.

WATE 6 On Your Side

It is a fantastic aquarium though, if people traveling down are looking for other things to do while in town. The Whale Sharks are pretty impressive.