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Coach Babers’s show this year show will be Thursday nights at 7PM except when the game is not on a Saturday. The show is two days before the game, except for Thanksgiving week. Here is the schedule:
Thursday, Aug. 29 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 5 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 12 – 7 pm
Thursday, Sept. 19 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 26 – 7 pm; Tuesday, Oct. 8 – 7 pm
Wednesday, Oct. 16 – 7 pm; Thursday, Oct. 24 – 7 pm; Thursday, Oct. 31 – 7 pm
Thursday, Nov. 14 – 7 pm; Thursday, Nov. 21 – 7 pm; Tuesday, Nov. 26 – 7 pm
They are now adding the “Gomez Hour” that they do from 8-9PM for the Jim Boeheim basketball shows to the Dino Babers football show. I’ll be summarizing the comments directly related to the team and the next game (late) on the night of the broadcast and anything else interesting the next day, (if there is anything else that seems interesting). I’ll have a “first hour” and a “second hour” question.
The show will originate from PressRoom Pub, located at 220 Herald Place in Syracuse's historic Herald Square, each week this season.
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: Home | Free Internet Radio | 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: https://twitter.com/CuseIMG
#AskDino or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
cuse.com
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 Hour:
“Coach those Western Michigan Broncos are well-named. For the second straight year we got off to a big lead against them and held on for dear life like a bronco rider in a rodeo. We could be satisfied with staying on for 8 second- we have to hold for 60 minutes and did it each time. Over the last three games we have averaged giving up 606 yards and 46 points. But in this game we stopped them on fourth down 4 out of 5 times, had 4 takeaways and 3 sacks and harassed Jon Wassink into 23 incompletions and shut them out in the fourth quarter. Are we a good defensive team at this point?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, our offense got off to a slow start this year but in the Western Michigan game we gained 545 yards, had 25 first downs and scored 52 points. We averaged 5.5 yards per carry and completed 77% of our passes. Are we a good offensive team at this point?”
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 described the Coach as being resplendent in an SU letterman’s jacket while he at maple bacon bourbon chicken wings. (I guess they come from maple bacon bourbon chickens).
Coach said that Holy Cross was, “like us before the Western Michigan game” – their offense is waiting to get untracked. They have a veteran quarterback, (Connor Degenhardt), a fine tailback, (Domenic Cozier) and a big tight end, (the well-named Derek Mountain).
I called in my first question about the state of the defense. “We’re in transition. We had 3-4 starters out and they didn’t have #7 (D’Wayne Eskeridge). It was exciting to see the back-ups perform at a certain level. It’s about growth and development…Defensive back is one position with real depth. Scoop Bradshaw and Antwan Cordy have each played a couple seasons as starters. It’s not like they had a clean game but they played well… Somewhere between 4 and 6 weeks, (you won your bet, whoever you are), we hope to see it all come together. This is our 5th game coming up. We are hopeful that our defense is better than our statistics after a couple of bad games.”
Matt Park said that “You’ve played an array of teams, from a #1 ranked team to an FCS team. You must learn something about your team with each game.” HCDB: “You get damaged when you play a top team. We lost 6 guys after beating Clemson two years ago.” What about Sam Heckel, bear Williams, Iffy Melifonwu, Antwan Cordy and Trill Williams? “They didn’t practice this week. Hopefully they’ll be back once the ACC season gets going again.”
They asked a trivia question- When did Syracuse last play Holy Cross and was the #1 box office movie that year and what was the #1 single song?
ESPN was showing some old Ernie Davis footage. Dino: “It would have bene a beautiful thing to see Jim brown and Ernie Davis play in the same backfield. We’d still be talking about it today. It just wasn’t in the Big Guy’s plans.”
Was looking at Holy Cross’s only previous game against an FBS opponent, Navy, useful? No it wasn’t because Navy’s offense is totally different than ours. He revealed that Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo was a college teammate of his. Dino always roots from Navy to win, as long as we aren’t playing them. Gomez later asked what quarterback Dino thinks of when he thinks about Navy football. That was easy: “Roger “the Dodger” Staubach, a great player, a great person and leader of his community.”
John in Baltimore liked the shovel pass play, even though it resulted in a fumble, (which means it wasn’t a shovel pass). He asked about another type of play and I couldn’t quite get the word he used. It was either a “run pass” or a “rough pass” or a “rub pass”. The word was used several times. Matt said that it was one of Doug Marrone’s favorite plays. He then asked about Jawar Jordan, saying that a lot of schools are using smaller running backs like him, including Western Michigan’s Lavante Bellamy. DB: JJ can run. There are a lot of backs in front of him. Like Bellamy he’s short with not a lot of weight. They both look to get through the hole and make a guy miss.” Matt pointed out that Bellamy 5-9 and about 190, (actually 185) and is a graduate student. Jawar Jordan is 5-9 and 167 and a true freshman. DB: “I wouldn’t be surprised if, as a senior, Jawar is the same weight as Bellamy.”
Matt asked how backs can kept their speed with added weight. DB: They will gain muscle but be a heavier, leaner cut of athlete and can be explosive. They come here as a Porsche, which handles so well and become a Corvette with all that power in the back.
The 60 yard run by DeVito “let people know that we will run the quarterback. Tommy made a tactical mistake, which I will not reveal. I’ll just say that I’d like him to be more Russell Wilson than Michael Vick- get what you can and run out of bounds….Tommy’s not a Pinto. He’s got to pick and choose.”
Ron in Rochester wondered if playing on turf helped Coach to recruit pass rushers because they can do it so much better on the turf. Dino didn’t think that turf as opposed to grass helped pass rushers all that much and in any case over half the schools have it now.
They saw a shot of people reaching into Memphis’ tiger cage to pat their mascot, which seemed, at best to be ‘weird’. Matt asked Coach what his favorite live mascots were. “Well, Ralphie, (Colorado’s buffalo), and Bevo, (Texas’s longhorn), can’t be controlled. They go where they want to. I like tigers- just not the ones in South Carolina.
Matt noted another inquiry had been sent in about Jawar Jordan. He wondered if there was a plan to get the reserves into the game at some point. DB: “You have to respect your opponent and get the win. You don’t know what there is down there. I’ve coached at the FCS level and beaten a Power Five team. You do want to save the hits on your starters. Some people want a game every week. You can’t play rocky and then Ali and then Norton and then Frazier. Some teams are 4-0 but they haven’t played anybody. Some teams have played good teams and are 2-2. But they are also more banged up from playing better teams.”
They talked about the game Alton Robinson had. DB: “he was fantastic. Kendall Coleman also played extremely well. The quarterback was a little rattled - and he knew why…They were too much for their offensive line. They have a good line but they hadn’t seen rushers like that before. We call it ‘moving the quarterback off his spot’. He was always hurried and pressured. ”
Matt interviewed Reno Ferri, who coaches the tight ends and slot receivers, briefly at the end of the first hour. He was proud of how productive Aaron Hackett has become. They run a play where the SAM doesn’t know whether it’s a run or a pass and “he’s wrong wherever he goes”. (Sounds like a good play.) Luke Benson can catch the ball and is very fast for a tight end. “He did a 10.5 700 in high school“. (?!?) “You must be able to block to play tight end here.” Matt mentioned that Holy Cross has a tight end who is 6-5 and 250. RF: “I don’t work that side of the ball but I believe it. I trust my head coach.”
Reno is looking for Sean Riley to be more involved this week. The screen passes have bene effective. “We’ve got to do a better job with the ball in our hands.” They talked ab out Triston Jackson’s two scores. Reno felt that the second one was more impressive than the first. The film revealed he’d used two straight arms to get free and “left a trail of tacklers in his wake”.
Gomez came on for the second hour. He noted that everyone seemed to be ordering the salmon because Dino had praised it last week. Dino: “the food here is great!”
Gomez noted the $25 million donated to the school by John Lally. Dino: “He’s a fantastic alum. He says he owes all his success to the ‘S’.” Gomez said that he’s read about Lally’s business and still can’t figure out what he does. Dino said that he’s “a fantastic captain who gets people coordinated.”
I called in my second question - about the offense. “We are still growing. It’s still a process. I don’t want to put a ceiling on it. We left a lot of meat on the bone. We have yet to play a complete game. I frantically want to see that happen.” I told him that I was frantic about it, too. That got a laugh. I also told him that when we get one I’ll be calling in to ask how we stay at that level.
Gomez compared this to losing weight- how do you keep it off. Dino said that he was in a weight loss ‘situation’. (Will he look like the ‘Situation’?) “I get excited about losing weight and then suddenly I can fit into my high school jeans. Then I relax and here comes the ice cream bars. I need to be consistently good, not occasionally good.”
Dino said that in high school he wasn’t the best athlete in school- there were a lot of good ones. “Some of the best didn’t go to college. I wanted to go to college so I’d never be tired and could fool somebody into giving me a scholarship.” He wound up being Hawaii’s leading rusher in 1983.
Todd called in to ask about cheerleader pushups. Dino said he thought our male cheerleaders did push-ups for every point. So do a lot of schools. At the service academies both the men and the women do them. When they came back from a commercial they’d been talking about some traditions they had at various schools and Gomez wanted Dino to talk about one they had at Arizona but he refused as it “wasn’t appropriate for the airwaves”.
Brendon called in - from the Press Room Pub. He asked what our game plan was for Holy Cross. Dino declined to be specific: “We plan to go faster.” Gomez: “Enjoy the other side of the bar.”
Gomez asked if Dino has ever bene to a Super Bowl. He was at SB 22, where the Redskins beat the Broncos 42-10. Dino and his friend were seated at the 15 yard line and saw the Bronco’s touchdown which came in the first quarter, (when they took a 10-0 lead) but every other touchdown came a the other end of the field and Dino strained his neck trying to see the plays. The other thing he remembers is that each ticket holder got a reproduction of a Leroy Neiman painting and when they left, they encountered a guy who needed a ride – and it turned out to be Leroy Neiman who autographed their pictures.
Will the players be looking past the Crusaders? “Looking ahead got us in trouble. If they are they better be looking at me. We need to play our game with the right kind of enthusiasm and effort. We’d better play a complete game and give them the respect that they are due. We need to play the right way.”
Thursday, Aug. 29 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 5 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 12 – 7 pm
Thursday, Sept. 19 – 7 pm; Thursday, Sept. 26 – 7 pm; Tuesday, Oct. 8 – 7 pm
Wednesday, Oct. 16 – 7 pm; Thursday, Oct. 24 – 7 pm; Thursday, Oct. 31 – 7 pm
Thursday, Nov. 14 – 7 pm; Thursday, Nov. 21 – 7 pm; Tuesday, Nov. 26 – 7 pm
They are now adding the “Gomez Hour” that they do from 8-9PM for the Jim Boeheim basketball shows to the Dino Babers football show. I’ll be summarizing the comments directly related to the team and the next game (late) on the night of the broadcast and anything else interesting the next day, (if there is anything else that seems interesting). I’ll have a “first hour” and a “second hour” question.
The show will originate from PressRoom Pub, located at 220 Herald Place in Syracuse's historic Herald Square, each week this season.
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: Home | Free Internet Radio | 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: https://twitter.com/CuseIMG
#AskDino or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Submit a Question! - Syracuse University Athletics
Submit your question for Syracuse Learfield Sports Network programs.
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 Hour:
“Coach those Western Michigan Broncos are well-named. For the second straight year we got off to a big lead against them and held on for dear life like a bronco rider in a rodeo. We could be satisfied with staying on for 8 second- we have to hold for 60 minutes and did it each time. Over the last three games we have averaged giving up 606 yards and 46 points. But in this game we stopped them on fourth down 4 out of 5 times, had 4 takeaways and 3 sacks and harassed Jon Wassink into 23 incompletions and shut them out in the fourth quarter. Are we a good defensive team at this point?”
Second Hour:
“Coach, our offense got off to a slow start this year but in the Western Michigan game we gained 545 yards, had 25 first downs and scored 52 points. We averaged 5.5 yards per carry and completed 77% of our passes. Are we a good offensive team at this point?”
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 described the Coach as being resplendent in an SU letterman’s jacket while he at maple bacon bourbon chicken wings. (I guess they come from maple bacon bourbon chickens).
Coach said that Holy Cross was, “like us before the Western Michigan game” – their offense is waiting to get untracked. They have a veteran quarterback, (Connor Degenhardt), a fine tailback, (Domenic Cozier) and a big tight end, (the well-named Derek Mountain).
I called in my first question about the state of the defense. “We’re in transition. We had 3-4 starters out and they didn’t have #7 (D’Wayne Eskeridge). It was exciting to see the back-ups perform at a certain level. It’s about growth and development…Defensive back is one position with real depth. Scoop Bradshaw and Antwan Cordy have each played a couple seasons as starters. It’s not like they had a clean game but they played well… Somewhere between 4 and 6 weeks, (you won your bet, whoever you are), we hope to see it all come together. This is our 5th game coming up. We are hopeful that our defense is better than our statistics after a couple of bad games.”
Matt Park said that “You’ve played an array of teams, from a #1 ranked team to an FCS team. You must learn something about your team with each game.” HCDB: “You get damaged when you play a top team. We lost 6 guys after beating Clemson two years ago.” What about Sam Heckel, bear Williams, Iffy Melifonwu, Antwan Cordy and Trill Williams? “They didn’t practice this week. Hopefully they’ll be back once the ACC season gets going again.”
They asked a trivia question- When did Syracuse last play Holy Cross and was the #1 box office movie that year and what was the #1 single song?
ESPN was showing some old Ernie Davis footage. Dino: “It would have bene a beautiful thing to see Jim brown and Ernie Davis play in the same backfield. We’d still be talking about it today. It just wasn’t in the Big Guy’s plans.”
Was looking at Holy Cross’s only previous game against an FBS opponent, Navy, useful? No it wasn’t because Navy’s offense is totally different than ours. He revealed that Navy head coach Ken Niumatalolo was a college teammate of his. Dino always roots from Navy to win, as long as we aren’t playing them. Gomez later asked what quarterback Dino thinks of when he thinks about Navy football. That was easy: “Roger “the Dodger” Staubach, a great player, a great person and leader of his community.”
John in Baltimore liked the shovel pass play, even though it resulted in a fumble, (which means it wasn’t a shovel pass). He asked about another type of play and I couldn’t quite get the word he used. It was either a “run pass” or a “rough pass” or a “rub pass”. The word was used several times. Matt said that it was one of Doug Marrone’s favorite plays. He then asked about Jawar Jordan, saying that a lot of schools are using smaller running backs like him, including Western Michigan’s Lavante Bellamy. DB: JJ can run. There are a lot of backs in front of him. Like Bellamy he’s short with not a lot of weight. They both look to get through the hole and make a guy miss.” Matt pointed out that Bellamy 5-9 and about 190, (actually 185) and is a graduate student. Jawar Jordan is 5-9 and 167 and a true freshman. DB: “I wouldn’t be surprised if, as a senior, Jawar is the same weight as Bellamy.”
Matt asked how backs can kept their speed with added weight. DB: They will gain muscle but be a heavier, leaner cut of athlete and can be explosive. They come here as a Porsche, which handles so well and become a Corvette with all that power in the back.
The 60 yard run by DeVito “let people know that we will run the quarterback. Tommy made a tactical mistake, which I will not reveal. I’ll just say that I’d like him to be more Russell Wilson than Michael Vick- get what you can and run out of bounds….Tommy’s not a Pinto. He’s got to pick and choose.”
Ron in Rochester wondered if playing on turf helped Coach to recruit pass rushers because they can do it so much better on the turf. Dino didn’t think that turf as opposed to grass helped pass rushers all that much and in any case over half the schools have it now.
They saw a shot of people reaching into Memphis’ tiger cage to pat their mascot, which seemed, at best to be ‘weird’. Matt asked Coach what his favorite live mascots were. “Well, Ralphie, (Colorado’s buffalo), and Bevo, (Texas’s longhorn), can’t be controlled. They go where they want to. I like tigers- just not the ones in South Carolina.
Matt noted another inquiry had been sent in about Jawar Jordan. He wondered if there was a plan to get the reserves into the game at some point. DB: “You have to respect your opponent and get the win. You don’t know what there is down there. I’ve coached at the FCS level and beaten a Power Five team. You do want to save the hits on your starters. Some people want a game every week. You can’t play rocky and then Ali and then Norton and then Frazier. Some teams are 4-0 but they haven’t played anybody. Some teams have played good teams and are 2-2. But they are also more banged up from playing better teams.”
They talked about the game Alton Robinson had. DB: “he was fantastic. Kendall Coleman also played extremely well. The quarterback was a little rattled - and he knew why…They were too much for their offensive line. They have a good line but they hadn’t seen rushers like that before. We call it ‘moving the quarterback off his spot’. He was always hurried and pressured. ”
Matt interviewed Reno Ferri, who coaches the tight ends and slot receivers, briefly at the end of the first hour. He was proud of how productive Aaron Hackett has become. They run a play where the SAM doesn’t know whether it’s a run or a pass and “he’s wrong wherever he goes”. (Sounds like a good play.) Luke Benson can catch the ball and is very fast for a tight end. “He did a 10.5 700 in high school“. (?!?) “You must be able to block to play tight end here.” Matt mentioned that Holy Cross has a tight end who is 6-5 and 250. RF: “I don’t work that side of the ball but I believe it. I trust my head coach.”
Reno is looking for Sean Riley to be more involved this week. The screen passes have bene effective. “We’ve got to do a better job with the ball in our hands.” They talked ab out Triston Jackson’s two scores. Reno felt that the second one was more impressive than the first. The film revealed he’d used two straight arms to get free and “left a trail of tacklers in his wake”.
Gomez came on for the second hour. He noted that everyone seemed to be ordering the salmon because Dino had praised it last week. Dino: “the food here is great!”
Gomez noted the $25 million donated to the school by John Lally. Dino: “He’s a fantastic alum. He says he owes all his success to the ‘S’.” Gomez said that he’s read about Lally’s business and still can’t figure out what he does. Dino said that he’s “a fantastic captain who gets people coordinated.”
I called in my second question - about the offense. “We are still growing. It’s still a process. I don’t want to put a ceiling on it. We left a lot of meat on the bone. We have yet to play a complete game. I frantically want to see that happen.” I told him that I was frantic about it, too. That got a laugh. I also told him that when we get one I’ll be calling in to ask how we stay at that level.
Gomez compared this to losing weight- how do you keep it off. Dino said that he was in a weight loss ‘situation’. (Will he look like the ‘Situation’?) “I get excited about losing weight and then suddenly I can fit into my high school jeans. Then I relax and here comes the ice cream bars. I need to be consistently good, not occasionally good.”
Dino said that in high school he wasn’t the best athlete in school- there were a lot of good ones. “Some of the best didn’t go to college. I wanted to go to college so I’d never be tired and could fool somebody into giving me a scholarship.” He wound up being Hawaii’s leading rusher in 1983.
Todd called in to ask about cheerleader pushups. Dino said he thought our male cheerleaders did push-ups for every point. So do a lot of schools. At the service academies both the men and the women do them. When they came back from a commercial they’d been talking about some traditions they had at various schools and Gomez wanted Dino to talk about one they had at Arizona but he refused as it “wasn’t appropriate for the airwaves”.
Brendon called in - from the Press Room Pub. He asked what our game plan was for Holy Cross. Dino declined to be specific: “We plan to go faster.” Gomez: “Enjoy the other side of the bar.”
Gomez asked if Dino has ever bene to a Super Bowl. He was at SB 22, where the Redskins beat the Broncos 42-10. Dino and his friend were seated at the 15 yard line and saw the Bronco’s touchdown which came in the first quarter, (when they took a 10-0 lead) but every other touchdown came a the other end of the field and Dino strained his neck trying to see the plays. The other thing he remembers is that each ticket holder got a reproduction of a Leroy Neiman painting and when they left, they encountered a guy who needed a ride – and it turned out to be Leroy Neiman who autographed their pictures.
Will the players be looking past the Crusaders? “Looking ahead got us in trouble. If they are they better be looking at me. We need to play our game with the right kind of enthusiasm and effort. We’d better play a complete game and give them the respect that they are due. We need to play the right way.”
