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Coach Babers’s first show this year show will be Wednesday night at 7PM because the first game is Friday, (the show will normally be two days before the next game). The show will originate from PressRoom Pub, located at 220 Herald Place in Syracuse's historic Herald Square, each week this season.
This article contains the schedule:
AmeriCU Dino Babers Show Moves to PressRoom Pub - Syracuse University Athletics
You can also listen to the show live each week on the Syracuse IMG Sports Network and Cuse.com. Wednesday's show will be on 99.1 FM and 97.7 FM, as well. The show will regularly air on 99.5FM (Syracuse) 99.1 FM (Utica) and 1200 AM.”
You can also get it on: Listen to The Jim Bohannon Show on WGVA on TuneIn
There hasn’t been any change in the phone numbers, which last year were 315-424-8599 (local) or 1-888-746-2873. You can call to ask questions or submit them via Twitter at: Syracuse IMG Sports (@CuseIMG) | Twitter
Or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Syracuse University
You can (or could last year, anyway), listen to a podcast of the show, probably the next day, at: Search results for babers | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
I’ve been asked to continue doing the summaries, even by people who listen to the podcasts. I may focus on the major points, rather than trying to record everything.
My Question(s) or Comments
“Coach you said you had to look at the tape to decide whether to start Eric Dungey or Tommy DeVito. When you look at the tape, what are the things you are looking for that a fan might not be aware of?”
The Show
(I sometimes re-arrange the comments so that statements made on the same subject are reported together, even if they came at different points of the show.)
Brian Higgins sat in for Matt Park, who was broadcasting the basketball game against St. Rose. He said that the UNC game has been a big win and now we were taking on a ranked team with an opportunity to become bowl eligible. Coach said that “NCV State is really big – tall and physical. I was surprised by the Clemson result because they physically match-up with the Tigers. Sometimes you can catch a team at the wrong time but that clears up quickly.”
Brian asked about the UNC game, noting that both teams had 20 point runs. Dino noted all the close losses of the last two years- LSU, NC State, Florida State, Clemson, Pitt- and said it was nice for the kids to come out on top this time. “This is my third year here and we haven’t blown out an ACC team yet”, (FSU this year?). “We need to win this type of game. This is the most games our seniors- even the ones who red-shirted- have won in college. I was fortunate in college: I never played on a losing team. (Hawaii, 1979-83). I’m doing everything I can to see to it that our seniors get to experience what should be normal here.” he said the close games were “great for fans but hard on coaches.”
Liam in Pompey congratulated the coach on the victory and said we have a good opponent coming up, one that “had a tough loss at Clemson and will be hungry. They have a good quarterback. I hope you get #6 and become bowl eligible.” Dino thanked him but said “I’m not quite sure I heard a question there.”
Brian asked about Ryan Finlay. DB: He completes close to 70% of his passes and converts about 50% of this third downs, which is the highest in the conference. They can run the ball and stop the run.” Brian noted that Finlay had been sacked only three times all season. “That’s due to his offensive line and ability to understand when to get rid of the ball. Finlay feels the sack coming and throws it away”
John in Baltimore had two questions: Why did we got to the corner of the end zone to 5-8 Nykeim Johnson instead of 6-5 Jamal Custis? Can we afford to use a three man rush against Finlay? Dino, as he often does, answered the second question first: “You get less pressure with 3 pass rushers but you have one more defender and that narrows the windows for the quarterback to complete a pass. Using four men opens up a seam. Against a very efficient quarterback like Finlay, you have to mix is up. We’ll have 3, 4 even 5 guys rushing at different times. Three man can be good if the underneath coverage makes the quarterback to double clutch.”
On the first question: “I like 6-5 over 5-8 but we’ve got 2-3 receivers in the end zone running different combinations of routes. Jamal will always have a lot of people around him. The other guys will have single coverage.” (It didn’t look that way on that last play at Pitt.)
I called in my question about what a coach looks for on film in evaluating a quarterback that the fans might not know to look for. “Great question. On a running play, (a hand-off), the quarterback has to have his feet in a certain gap. He has to go through certain checks on a run/pass play. He has to go through his reads progressively on a passing play. He can’t go from 1 to 3 or 1 to 4. He’s got to change routes at the line of scrimmage and communicate that to his receivers. When you wonder where the quarterback was throwing the ball he often didn’t get the route change through to the receiver.”
Brian asked what impact the loss of veteran receivers like Steve Ismael and Erv Phillips has had. DB: It’s taken us a little bit of time to get together. If we can throw at a high level of efficiency, it gets them out of the heavy box.”
Brian asked tonight’s trivia question- when did Syracuse last win a football game in overtime?
Marty in Ithaca asked about running the ball against NC State’s defense. Brian pointed out that every member of last year’s Wolfpack defensive line is now playing in the NFL. Dino said that despite that, they are still very good and very large. “Their defensive ends are the size of tackles. The little guy is 260. It’s an NFL size line.” Travis Etienne, who ran all over us, had three short TD runs against the Wolfpack but failed to get to 100 yards.
Rob in Baldwinsville loves the coach and the team. He wanted to know where fans can get those beautiful orange, white and grey jerseys. Dino suggested Marshal Street or the mall. (Or everywhere else in CNY. Grey? Beautiful?)
Brian asked what had been done to “get everybody ready” for the NC State game. This was apparently code for how the decision on the quarterback situation was handled. “We had a meeting and talked about the situation as a family. In practices the reps where shared. If it takes one quarterback or the other or both, we have to do it. It’s a blessing that we can have good football players who stay here because of the academics and the community.”
Stefan in Utica called to say hello to the coach and congratulate him on a good season. Did he tell Dungey not to get his head down and pay attention? DB: “No. I told him he needs to support Tommy just as Tommy supported him.” Did Eric need a rest? DB: “No. we needed a change. We needed to do something else to be successful. It was nice to start with a 50 yard play. It took the pressure off and got the crowd back into it.”
Mark in New York was the guy who hit the half-court shot in MSG and got an autographed picture from an admiring Dino Babers because of it. He wanted to know the procedure the team goes through to make their uniform choices. Dino said “I have never picked a uniform. The seniors, we have a leadership council or the equipment manager has always done it. I find out what we are wearing when I get to the game. There was one situation last year- for the last home game, our senior day, we wore nothing that had orange on it. That’s our school color. I told the team that that will never happen again.
About our cornerbacks- Chris Fredrick and Scoop Bradshaw were injured and the outstanding freshmen Ifeatu Melifonwu and Trill Williams had to play in their place – “Iffy did a fantastic job. They targeted him and he had four pass breakups, the most for an SU player since Steve Gregory in the mid-2000’s”. I looked this up. The SU Media Guide lists ten players who have had 4 or more pass break-ups in a game and all are between 1988 and 9/7/02, when Steve had 6, ironically vs North Carolina. Ten in 14 years followed by none in 15 years. Coach said of Fredrick and Bradshaw, “It looks like they will be OK”, but didn’t say “for this game”. He did say “Scoop, Chris, Iffy and Trill give us four ACC-level cornerbacks.”
Brian asked about our improved run defense- was it an improved scheme? Dino said it was about getting fresh bodies in there. He praised Shy Cullen for breaking up the flea-flicker and setting up the interception by Foster. “We need to play him and Tyrell Richards and keep our linebacker fresh.”
Coach made a comment on the length of games: “I want hour and 45 minutes games. We must have the longest commercial break in the world.” Coach, it might help if our players weren’t looking to the sidelines all the time.
Coach Reno Ferri, (no reference to Diamond so I guess they aren’t related), coaches the tight ends and ‘inside’ receivers, which I assume means the slot guys. He also helps out with the wide-outs. Dino says he coaches two different positons but three different types of athletes. “He’s got a west point background. I prefer the Navy, (I could see him smirking over the radio), but ny military background is good.” He said that “tight ends are like the foot soldiers and the little receivers are like the air force”, I guess because they can go off to the wild blue yonder while the foot soldiers battle it out in the trenches. The wide-outs must be the Navy.
Coach Reno is “excited to get Ravian Pierce back. That last play was the his best executed all day.. it gives us a look the opposition has to think about.” Brian suggested that ”it’s close to an unstoppable play: the opposition has to guess at what to cover and are likely to guess wrong. Reno said it was because the quarterback makes the call on the play. Apparently it was a run-pass option with Ravian lined up in the backfield to block. When DeVito decided on the pass, that released Ravian to trot into the end zone and catch the pass while the defense was concentrating on everyone else. (See the 2:50 mark)
Ferri said about Ravian, “If you want a guy hit, he’ll hit him.” About Nykeim Johnson: “He has experience on the outside but his future is on the inside. It’s fun to coach a guy who can take it all the way.”
Is there any added pressure because the team is trying to secure a bowl game. “It’s business as usual. Every week is a new season.” Does the quarterback controversy impact his receivers? “Whichever quarterback throws the pass, it will not make a difference to us.”
This article contains the schedule:
AmeriCU Dino Babers Show Moves to PressRoom Pub - Syracuse University Athletics
You can also listen to the show live each week on the Syracuse IMG Sports Network and Cuse.com. Wednesday's show will be on 99.1 FM and 97.7 FM, as well. The show will regularly air on 99.5FM (Syracuse) 99.1 FM (Utica) and 1200 AM.”
You can also get it on: Listen to The Jim Bohannon Show on WGVA on TuneIn
There hasn’t been any change in the phone numbers, which last year were 315-424-8599 (local) or 1-888-746-2873. You can call to ask questions or submit them via Twitter at: Syracuse IMG Sports (@CuseIMG) | Twitter
Or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Syracuse University
You can (or could last year, anyway), listen to a podcast of the show, probably the next day, at: Search results for babers | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn
I’ve been asked to continue doing the summaries, even by people who listen to the podcasts. I may focus on the major points, rather than trying to record everything.
My Question(s) or Comments
“Coach you said you had to look at the tape to decide whether to start Eric Dungey or Tommy DeVito. When you look at the tape, what are the things you are looking for that a fan might not be aware of?”
The Show
(I sometimes re-arrange the comments so that statements made on the same subject are reported together, even if they came at different points of the show.)
Brian Higgins sat in for Matt Park, who was broadcasting the basketball game against St. Rose. He said that the UNC game has been a big win and now we were taking on a ranked team with an opportunity to become bowl eligible. Coach said that “NCV State is really big – tall and physical. I was surprised by the Clemson result because they physically match-up with the Tigers. Sometimes you can catch a team at the wrong time but that clears up quickly.”
Brian asked about the UNC game, noting that both teams had 20 point runs. Dino noted all the close losses of the last two years- LSU, NC State, Florida State, Clemson, Pitt- and said it was nice for the kids to come out on top this time. “This is my third year here and we haven’t blown out an ACC team yet”, (FSU this year?). “We need to win this type of game. This is the most games our seniors- even the ones who red-shirted- have won in college. I was fortunate in college: I never played on a losing team. (Hawaii, 1979-83). I’m doing everything I can to see to it that our seniors get to experience what should be normal here.” he said the close games were “great for fans but hard on coaches.”
Liam in Pompey congratulated the coach on the victory and said we have a good opponent coming up, one that “had a tough loss at Clemson and will be hungry. They have a good quarterback. I hope you get #6 and become bowl eligible.” Dino thanked him but said “I’m not quite sure I heard a question there.”
Brian asked about Ryan Finlay. DB: He completes close to 70% of his passes and converts about 50% of this third downs, which is the highest in the conference. They can run the ball and stop the run.” Brian noted that Finlay had been sacked only three times all season. “That’s due to his offensive line and ability to understand when to get rid of the ball. Finlay feels the sack coming and throws it away”
John in Baltimore had two questions: Why did we got to the corner of the end zone to 5-8 Nykeim Johnson instead of 6-5 Jamal Custis? Can we afford to use a three man rush against Finlay? Dino, as he often does, answered the second question first: “You get less pressure with 3 pass rushers but you have one more defender and that narrows the windows for the quarterback to complete a pass. Using four men opens up a seam. Against a very efficient quarterback like Finlay, you have to mix is up. We’ll have 3, 4 even 5 guys rushing at different times. Three man can be good if the underneath coverage makes the quarterback to double clutch.”
On the first question: “I like 6-5 over 5-8 but we’ve got 2-3 receivers in the end zone running different combinations of routes. Jamal will always have a lot of people around him. The other guys will have single coverage.” (It didn’t look that way on that last play at Pitt.)
I called in my question about what a coach looks for on film in evaluating a quarterback that the fans might not know to look for. “Great question. On a running play, (a hand-off), the quarterback has to have his feet in a certain gap. He has to go through certain checks on a run/pass play. He has to go through his reads progressively on a passing play. He can’t go from 1 to 3 or 1 to 4. He’s got to change routes at the line of scrimmage and communicate that to his receivers. When you wonder where the quarterback was throwing the ball he often didn’t get the route change through to the receiver.”
Brian asked what impact the loss of veteran receivers like Steve Ismael and Erv Phillips has had. DB: It’s taken us a little bit of time to get together. If we can throw at a high level of efficiency, it gets them out of the heavy box.”
Brian asked tonight’s trivia question- when did Syracuse last win a football game in overtime?
Marty in Ithaca asked about running the ball against NC State’s defense. Brian pointed out that every member of last year’s Wolfpack defensive line is now playing in the NFL. Dino said that despite that, they are still very good and very large. “Their defensive ends are the size of tackles. The little guy is 260. It’s an NFL size line.” Travis Etienne, who ran all over us, had three short TD runs against the Wolfpack but failed to get to 100 yards.
Rob in Baldwinsville loves the coach and the team. He wanted to know where fans can get those beautiful orange, white and grey jerseys. Dino suggested Marshal Street or the mall. (Or everywhere else in CNY. Grey? Beautiful?)
Brian asked what had been done to “get everybody ready” for the NC State game. This was apparently code for how the decision on the quarterback situation was handled. “We had a meeting and talked about the situation as a family. In practices the reps where shared. If it takes one quarterback or the other or both, we have to do it. It’s a blessing that we can have good football players who stay here because of the academics and the community.”
Stefan in Utica called to say hello to the coach and congratulate him on a good season. Did he tell Dungey not to get his head down and pay attention? DB: “No. I told him he needs to support Tommy just as Tommy supported him.” Did Eric need a rest? DB: “No. we needed a change. We needed to do something else to be successful. It was nice to start with a 50 yard play. It took the pressure off and got the crowd back into it.”
Mark in New York was the guy who hit the half-court shot in MSG and got an autographed picture from an admiring Dino Babers because of it. He wanted to know the procedure the team goes through to make their uniform choices. Dino said “I have never picked a uniform. The seniors, we have a leadership council or the equipment manager has always done it. I find out what we are wearing when I get to the game. There was one situation last year- for the last home game, our senior day, we wore nothing that had orange on it. That’s our school color. I told the team that that will never happen again.
About our cornerbacks- Chris Fredrick and Scoop Bradshaw were injured and the outstanding freshmen Ifeatu Melifonwu and Trill Williams had to play in their place – “Iffy did a fantastic job. They targeted him and he had four pass breakups, the most for an SU player since Steve Gregory in the mid-2000’s”. I looked this up. The SU Media Guide lists ten players who have had 4 or more pass break-ups in a game and all are between 1988 and 9/7/02, when Steve had 6, ironically vs North Carolina. Ten in 14 years followed by none in 15 years. Coach said of Fredrick and Bradshaw, “It looks like they will be OK”, but didn’t say “for this game”. He did say “Scoop, Chris, Iffy and Trill give us four ACC-level cornerbacks.”
Brian asked about our improved run defense- was it an improved scheme? Dino said it was about getting fresh bodies in there. He praised Shy Cullen for breaking up the flea-flicker and setting up the interception by Foster. “We need to play him and Tyrell Richards and keep our linebacker fresh.”
Coach made a comment on the length of games: “I want hour and 45 minutes games. We must have the longest commercial break in the world.” Coach, it might help if our players weren’t looking to the sidelines all the time.
Coach Reno Ferri, (no reference to Diamond so I guess they aren’t related), coaches the tight ends and ‘inside’ receivers, which I assume means the slot guys. He also helps out with the wide-outs. Dino says he coaches two different positons but three different types of athletes. “He’s got a west point background. I prefer the Navy, (I could see him smirking over the radio), but ny military background is good.” He said that “tight ends are like the foot soldiers and the little receivers are like the air force”, I guess because they can go off to the wild blue yonder while the foot soldiers battle it out in the trenches. The wide-outs must be the Navy.
Coach Reno is “excited to get Ravian Pierce back. That last play was the his best executed all day.. it gives us a look the opposition has to think about.” Brian suggested that ”it’s close to an unstoppable play: the opposition has to guess at what to cover and are likely to guess wrong. Reno said it was because the quarterback makes the call on the play. Apparently it was a run-pass option with Ravian lined up in the backfield to block. When DeVito decided on the pass, that released Ravian to trot into the end zone and catch the pass while the defense was concentrating on everyone else. (See the 2:50 mark)
Ferri said about Ravian, “If you want a guy hit, he’ll hit him.” About Nykeim Johnson: “He has experience on the outside but his future is on the inside. It’s fun to coach a guy who can take it all the way.”
Is there any added pressure because the team is trying to secure a bowl game. “It’s business as usual. Every week is a new season.” Does the quarterback controversy impact his receivers? “Whichever quarterback throws the pass, it will not make a difference to us.”
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