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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
First a comment:
“Coach, congratulations on a nice comeback win against Wake Forest. It was your first road win and first November win here and guaranteed your first winning season here. It also proved that your team can win without a cheering crowd, a hot start, in less than perfect weather conditions, despite some strange officiating and against a team that dominated us the last two years. It was the sort of game good teams win.”
“Coach, Wake Forest is not a notably good defensive team. How did they shut off our vertical passing game and force us to beat them with the running game?”
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.)
Matt noted the shinny new #13 national ranking, the first 3 game ACC winning streak and road win, etc. Dino credited “the senior class and everything they’ve gone through”. But “where not there yet. We’re not complete in anyway. We are heading in the right direction, not the wrong one.”
Liam from Pompey called in to congratulate the coach on the win. “Everything’s going great. What is your opinion on the next game?” Matt said something about Louisville being down. Dino jumped on that. “I don’t consider them down. They are athletic and fast and bigger than we are. They go 6-6, 6-6, 6-6, 6-6. They could make a good basketball team. They are strong on the back line. They have some 5 star and a bunch of four stars. Bobby Petrino is one of the most creative coaches. They are built to beat Clemson and Florida State. They are just dormant. That’s why we need to have the place full.” He said he’d put the last two Louisville scores, (28-62 and 10-56), and yardage, (414-845 and 335-727), on the blackboard to make sure his players didn’t underestimate their opponent.
I called in and added my congratulations to Liam’s. I asked my question about what Wake did to stop our vertical passing game. Dino said “they played everybody very very….” I thought he was going to say “close” but he said “deep. They assumed we lacked the discipline for a long and slow attack. The team and Eric Dungey made a fantastic adjustment. He ran the ball well and then started completing his passes in the second half to balance it out.” I told the coach it was nice to see we can grind out the tough ones. DB: “I agree.” He enjoyed describing Dungey’s 26 yard TD run. “We ran deep routes and sent a receiver cutting across the middle- some people think we don’t pass across the middle”, (perhaps a reference to my question about that last week). “The linebackers tried to jump Eric and he went by them and popped through the defense.” Matt noted that Eric had 30 rushing TDs in his career here.
He also said that we will be playing a home game as a ranked team for the first time in 20 years. The got around to discussing Sean Riley. Dino marveled that he was the smallest player on the team including the kickers. “But he has a big heart.”
John in Baltimore agreed, saying that Riley “is amazing”. He , as usual had two questions which Dino, as usual, answered in the opposite order. John wanted to know if we could play “the new guys” at the end of games to avoid injury to the starters. He also wondered if Our history of launching careers in sports media through Newhouse and the appointing of former ESPN executive John Wildhack as Athletic Director gave us an advantage in recruiting since many athletes want to move into sports broadcasting when their playing careers are over.
Dino: “You sell everything about the school – communications, the business school, the Whitman school of Management, etc….we were spelling guys on defense in the last two defensive drives. We had back-ups in the secondary, which is why they were able to complete those passes. If gave our young people game experience. It’s easier to control things substituting on defense than offense. We crossed our t’s and dotted our i’s on offense and forced them to use their time-outs. That’s why we’re going to win this year.” He said he’d gotten together with the freshmen who will redshirt this year but can play in four games- they may see action late in these last four games and he wants them to get ready.
The award given to Ian Eagle last week was another occasion for the royalty of Newhouse to get together but what excited Coach Babers the most was a chance to get meet his childhood hero – Dan Fouts, the San Diego Chargers’ star quarterback of the 70’s and 80’s. He also met Ed White the old Cal tackle, (who played in the infamous 0-43 game in 1968), who played for the Chargers and was later on the staff at San Diego State with Coach Babers.
A caller named R. J. said that in 2016 he met Coach in an ice cream store and he was kind enough to talk with him for 15 minutes. R. J. said that he hadn’t paid attention to football since the Fran Tarkington days – he’s a baseball fan- but Dino’s team has got him caring again. Dino recalled the great Viking teams of those days- Ed White was on them, too. Dino loved the way chuck Foreman ran the ball. Matt asked him how important ice cream was in his life. “It’s my go-to when I want to be bad.” His favorite flavor – vanilla. Matt was amazed it wasn’t something more exotic.
Mike called in to recall Dino’s speech when he was first hired and described a packed carrier Dome. He said it’s now time for the fans to come through and give him exactly that. Dino announced that on Friday, after the game, the team will go into the locker room and the seniors will come back out and make one last trip around the Dome, even talking with the fans. He wants people to stay if they can and be a part of that and make is a Syracuse tradition.
Someone texted in a question about clock management. Dino said he’d been trained in it by a master- Homer Smith, who wrote a book on it. He was coaching at UCLA when Dino was. “If you’re gonna get after me for clock management we’ll have to tangle!” Matt said he loved the coach’s feistiness on that subject.
Matt noted that Notre Dame will be wearing a ‘pinstripe’ version of their traditional uniforms in honor of playing in Yankee Stadium.
Matt joked than maybe Syracuse should wear its ‘retro’ uniforms- pink and green, their colors in the 1890’s before they switched to royal blue and orange. Dino said, “I love our old unis. That’s why I can’t pick them. I’m too old school.”
They discussed Tyrone Perkins. “He has a lower body injury. He’s in a really good hospital that can handle his emergency. He’s in a rehab situation. We’re trying to get him healthy enough to transfer back up here.” He gave thanks to Dave Clawson for visiting Tyrone and said “I am humbled by it”. He mentioned that Clawson was a high school teammate of Moose Johnston.
They discussed SU’s former NFL players and Coach says we have to get back to sending players to the NFL.
Mel in Cicero asked the question everyone has in the back of their minds: “In the revolving door of coaches leaving, are you planning to stay at Syracuse?” Coach did not attempt to answer that. He just said “the main thing I’m concerned with is Fridays’ game. I want to control the things I can control. We have a season to finish and I’m going to stay focused on it.” Nothing about how he’s happy here or he’s never had a fourth year and wants to see what it will be like, etc…it left me with an uneasy feeling.
Matt said “You’ve thrown it vertically and horizontally and you’ve proven you can run it. Are you bu8ilding your tool kit for the big games at the end of the season?” DB: “We need to be versatile. We also need to spread the ‘owies’ around. That’s what we concentrated on this season.”
The rest of the show was done with Offensive line coach Mike Cavanagh. Dino introduced him by saying that Mike was the offensive line coach when Oregon State twice beat USC at the height of their power in the Pete Carroll era and they did it by running the ball on them. “He does more with less and really motivates the kids. He sits tall in the saddle and looks down and makes sure they know what they have to do. He creates a real bond with the kids.” This is Mike’s first year with Syracuse and the improvement of our offensive line and running game can be at least partially credited to him.
Mike said that he “takes pride in being a technician. I’m a stickler in detail. Repetition is the greatest teacher. We were blessed to have players totaling 100 returning starts….Sam Heckle is a tough sucker. He gets blood transfusions…..Elmore and Howard are big dudes….All my guys love to eat.”
His guys contribute to our turnover margin by being “protectors…escorts.”
Louisville has “athletic guys with nice size up front. We’ve got to sustain the finish of each play. It’s a four hour game with 90 snaps.”
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
First a comment:
“Coach, congratulations on a nice comeback win against Wake Forest. It was your first road win and first November win here and guaranteed your first winning season here. It also proved that your team can win without a cheering crowd, a hot start, in less than perfect weather conditions, despite some strange officiating and against a team that dominated us the last two years. It was the sort of game good teams win.”
“Coach, Wake Forest is not a notably good defensive team. How did they shut off our vertical passing game and force us to beat them with the running game?”
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.)
Matt noted the shinny new #13 national ranking, the first 3 game ACC winning streak and road win, etc. Dino credited “the senior class and everything they’ve gone through”. But “where not there yet. We’re not complete in anyway. We are heading in the right direction, not the wrong one.”
Liam from Pompey called in to congratulate the coach on the win. “Everything’s going great. What is your opinion on the next game?” Matt said something about Louisville being down. Dino jumped on that. “I don’t consider them down. They are athletic and fast and bigger than we are. They go 6-6, 6-6, 6-6, 6-6. They could make a good basketball team. They are strong on the back line. They have some 5 star and a bunch of four stars. Bobby Petrino is one of the most creative coaches. They are built to beat Clemson and Florida State. They are just dormant. That’s why we need to have the place full.” He said he’d put the last two Louisville scores, (28-62 and 10-56), and yardage, (414-845 and 335-727), on the blackboard to make sure his players didn’t underestimate their opponent.
I called in and added my congratulations to Liam’s. I asked my question about what Wake did to stop our vertical passing game. Dino said “they played everybody very very….” I thought he was going to say “close” but he said “deep. They assumed we lacked the discipline for a long and slow attack. The team and Eric Dungey made a fantastic adjustment. He ran the ball well and then started completing his passes in the second half to balance it out.” I told the coach it was nice to see we can grind out the tough ones. DB: “I agree.” He enjoyed describing Dungey’s 26 yard TD run. “We ran deep routes and sent a receiver cutting across the middle- some people think we don’t pass across the middle”, (perhaps a reference to my question about that last week). “The linebackers tried to jump Eric and he went by them and popped through the defense.” Matt noted that Eric had 30 rushing TDs in his career here.
He also said that we will be playing a home game as a ranked team for the first time in 20 years. The got around to discussing Sean Riley. Dino marveled that he was the smallest player on the team including the kickers. “But he has a big heart.”
John in Baltimore agreed, saying that Riley “is amazing”. He , as usual had two questions which Dino, as usual, answered in the opposite order. John wanted to know if we could play “the new guys” at the end of games to avoid injury to the starters. He also wondered if Our history of launching careers in sports media through Newhouse and the appointing of former ESPN executive John Wildhack as Athletic Director gave us an advantage in recruiting since many athletes want to move into sports broadcasting when their playing careers are over.
Dino: “You sell everything about the school – communications, the business school, the Whitman school of Management, etc….we were spelling guys on defense in the last two defensive drives. We had back-ups in the secondary, which is why they were able to complete those passes. If gave our young people game experience. It’s easier to control things substituting on defense than offense. We crossed our t’s and dotted our i’s on offense and forced them to use their time-outs. That’s why we’re going to win this year.” He said he’d gotten together with the freshmen who will redshirt this year but can play in four games- they may see action late in these last four games and he wants them to get ready.
The award given to Ian Eagle last week was another occasion for the royalty of Newhouse to get together but what excited Coach Babers the most was a chance to get meet his childhood hero – Dan Fouts, the San Diego Chargers’ star quarterback of the 70’s and 80’s. He also met Ed White the old Cal tackle, (who played in the infamous 0-43 game in 1968), who played for the Chargers and was later on the staff at San Diego State with Coach Babers.
A caller named R. J. said that in 2016 he met Coach in an ice cream store and he was kind enough to talk with him for 15 minutes. R. J. said that he hadn’t paid attention to football since the Fran Tarkington days – he’s a baseball fan- but Dino’s team has got him caring again. Dino recalled the great Viking teams of those days- Ed White was on them, too. Dino loved the way chuck Foreman ran the ball. Matt asked him how important ice cream was in his life. “It’s my go-to when I want to be bad.” His favorite flavor – vanilla. Matt was amazed it wasn’t something more exotic.
Mike called in to recall Dino’s speech when he was first hired and described a packed carrier Dome. He said it’s now time for the fans to come through and give him exactly that. Dino announced that on Friday, after the game, the team will go into the locker room and the seniors will come back out and make one last trip around the Dome, even talking with the fans. He wants people to stay if they can and be a part of that and make is a Syracuse tradition.
Someone texted in a question about clock management. Dino said he’d been trained in it by a master- Homer Smith, who wrote a book on it. He was coaching at UCLA when Dino was. “If you’re gonna get after me for clock management we’ll have to tangle!” Matt said he loved the coach’s feistiness on that subject.
Matt noted that Notre Dame will be wearing a ‘pinstripe’ version of their traditional uniforms in honor of playing in Yankee Stadium.
Matt joked than maybe Syracuse should wear its ‘retro’ uniforms- pink and green, their colors in the 1890’s before they switched to royal blue and orange. Dino said, “I love our old unis. That’s why I can’t pick them. I’m too old school.”
They discussed Tyrone Perkins. “He has a lower body injury. He’s in a really good hospital that can handle his emergency. He’s in a rehab situation. We’re trying to get him healthy enough to transfer back up here.” He gave thanks to Dave Clawson for visiting Tyrone and said “I am humbled by it”. He mentioned that Clawson was a high school teammate of Moose Johnston.
They discussed SU’s former NFL players and Coach says we have to get back to sending players to the NFL.
Mel in Cicero asked the question everyone has in the back of their minds: “In the revolving door of coaches leaving, are you planning to stay at Syracuse?” Coach did not attempt to answer that. He just said “the main thing I’m concerned with is Fridays’ game. I want to control the things I can control. We have a season to finish and I’m going to stay focused on it.” Nothing about how he’s happy here or he’s never had a fourth year and wants to see what it will be like, etc…it left me with an uneasy feeling.
Matt said “You’ve thrown it vertically and horizontally and you’ve proven you can run it. Are you bu8ilding your tool kit for the big games at the end of the season?” DB: “We need to be versatile. We also need to spread the ‘owies’ around. That’s what we concentrated on this season.”
The rest of the show was done with Offensive line coach Mike Cavanagh. Dino introduced him by saying that Mike was the offensive line coach when Oregon State twice beat USC at the height of their power in the Pete Carroll era and they did it by running the ball on them. “He does more with less and really motivates the kids. He sits tall in the saddle and looks down and makes sure they know what they have to do. He creates a real bond with the kids.” This is Mike’s first year with Syracuse and the improvement of our offensive line and running game can be at least partially credited to him.
Mike said that he “takes pride in being a technician. I’m a stickler in detail. Repetition is the greatest teacher. We were blessed to have players totaling 100 returning starts….Sam Heckle is a tough sucker. He gets blood transfusions…..Elmore and Howard are big dudes….All my guys love to eat.”
His guys contribute to our turnover margin by being “protectors…escorts.”
Louisville has “athletic guys with nice size up front. We’ve got to sustain the finish of each play. It’s a four hour game with 90 snaps.”
