SWC75
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- Just before the game, we were informed that star receiver Oronde Gadsden, who had been through to be ‘week-to-week’ after last week’s injury is, in fact, out for the year, which means that his career here might be over if he decides, (as Andre Cisco and Trill Williams and Chris McCullough in basketball did), to declare for the draft anyway. We also found out that Trebor Pena, Kalan Ellis and Joe More, who we thought ‘might’ be ready to play in this game continue to be out and didn’t even travel with the team. I understand why Coach Babers doesn’t reveal this information before a game but it’s still disappointing to find that player’s injuries were more serious that had been hinted at. It’s also disappointing that so many of our injuries end player’s years and careers here. Does it just seem to happen to us more than anyone else? The injury bug that eventually brought last season down is still biting.
- It was worrisome to see a shot of the SU trainer messaging Garrett’s forearm, followed by a shot of Carlos Del Rio Wilson, who is likely not to win a game like this for us. Garrett remained in the game but we didn’t pass much after that. Purdue, for their part decided to take away our deep shots after some receivers got wide open early. But Garrett’s efforts to get the ball to them were not very sharp, even early in the game.
- But he wasn’t helped by some notable drops, the worst by Omari Hatcher, who just had to get his mitts on it and waltz into the end zone. These plays didn’t produce much yardage but it did warn Purdue to get back there and cover these people, which opened things up for Shrader’s and Allen’s runs and short passes. You have to think Gadsden would have caught those balls and given us a big early lead.
- Grady Denaburg missed that one field goal, (it was the first 40+ attempt of the season, leading one to wonder how accurate he is from distance), but otherwise seemed unaffected by kicking outdoors. But Jack Stonehouse, who should be unaffected, having averaged 42.4 yards per punt last year at Missouri, punted for a vonMarburgarain 34.3 on three punts. I'm glad we didn't have to use him much in this one.
- There were three teams on that field tonight. Ranked in the order of competence, they were Syracuse, Purdue, the Referees. The guys who belong in the striped suits called 20 penalties for 232 yards, many of them questionable for both teams. Those penalties sustained drives or negated touchdowns. Then there were the penalties they should have called, such as an obvious pass interference in the end zone in the first half followed by an obvious hit out of bounds, (far worse than one they called on us later in the game), which, after a sack was followed by Grady Denaburg’s missed field goal. Even the field goal would have made the fourth quarter a lot less nerve-racking.
- Then came the two totally weird calls on fumbles we recovered in the fourth quarter that could have put this game away. On the first a Purdue player, reaching for the ball, couldn’t get his arm up enough to get a hand on it and wound up swatting the ball away – while his right toe strayed out of bounds. He never came close to possessing the ball but it was ruled that because he touched it while his toe was out of bounds, Purdue got the ball back, even though we recovered it. Then they positioned the ball a couple yards closer to our goal than the spot where the fumble occurred, which, by their ruling, is where it was supposed to be placed.
- One the second, the ball was stripped from the Purdue runner, who was being gang tackled. It feel to the ground, between two Syracuse players. One seemed to pin the ball against the other and the mass of players descended upon it. When they unpiled it, a Syracuse player had it and a ref clearly singled that it was Syracuse ball. The play was reviewed and it was announced that “the call on the field stands”. I celebrated what seemed like it might end the game. Then I looked at the screen and Purdue was running a play. Somehow the call on the field had been changed before the review and that was what had ‘stood’. But that’s then the Syracuse defense rose and stuffed three straight plays to turn the ball back to us on downs. They are the ones that ‘stood’ and we got the ball after all. There was a great game in there somewhere, if you could find it among the pile of the official’s shenanigans.
- It was worrisome to see a shot of the SU trainer messaging Garrett’s forearm, followed by a shot of Carlos Del Rio Wilson, who is likely not to win a game like this for us. Garrett remained in the game but we didn’t pass much after that. Purdue, for their part decided to take away our deep shots after some receivers got wide open early. But Garrett’s efforts to get the ball to them were not very sharp, even early in the game.
- But he wasn’t helped by some notable drops, the worst by Omari Hatcher, who just had to get his mitts on it and waltz into the end zone. These plays didn’t produce much yardage but it did warn Purdue to get back there and cover these people, which opened things up for Shrader’s and Allen’s runs and short passes. You have to think Gadsden would have caught those balls and given us a big early lead.
- Grady Denaburg missed that one field goal, (it was the first 40+ attempt of the season, leading one to wonder how accurate he is from distance), but otherwise seemed unaffected by kicking outdoors. But Jack Stonehouse, who should be unaffected, having averaged 42.4 yards per punt last year at Missouri, punted for a vonMarburgarain 34.3 on three punts. I'm glad we didn't have to use him much in this one.
- There were three teams on that field tonight. Ranked in the order of competence, they were Syracuse, Purdue, the Referees. The guys who belong in the striped suits called 20 penalties for 232 yards, many of them questionable for both teams. Those penalties sustained drives or negated touchdowns. Then there were the penalties they should have called, such as an obvious pass interference in the end zone in the first half followed by an obvious hit out of bounds, (far worse than one they called on us later in the game), which, after a sack was followed by Grady Denaburg’s missed field goal. Even the field goal would have made the fourth quarter a lot less nerve-racking.
- Then came the two totally weird calls on fumbles we recovered in the fourth quarter that could have put this game away. On the first a Purdue player, reaching for the ball, couldn’t get his arm up enough to get a hand on it and wound up swatting the ball away – while his right toe strayed out of bounds. He never came close to possessing the ball but it was ruled that because he touched it while his toe was out of bounds, Purdue got the ball back, even though we recovered it. Then they positioned the ball a couple yards closer to our goal than the spot where the fumble occurred, which, by their ruling, is where it was supposed to be placed.
- One the second, the ball was stripped from the Purdue runner, who was being gang tackled. It feel to the ground, between two Syracuse players. One seemed to pin the ball against the other and the mass of players descended upon it. When they unpiled it, a Syracuse player had it and a ref clearly singled that it was Syracuse ball. The play was reviewed and it was announced that “the call on the field stands”. I celebrated what seemed like it might end the game. Then I looked at the screen and Purdue was running a play. Somehow the call on the field had been changed before the review and that was what had ‘stood’. But that’s then the Syracuse defense rose and stuffed three straight plays to turn the ball back to us on downs. They are the ones that ‘stood’ and we got the ball after all. There was a great game in there somewhere, if you could find it among the pile of the official’s shenanigans.
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