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- It wasn’t a fight, which meant the referee couldn’t stop it: we had to play out the entire 60 minutes even though it obvious after the first drive that we could not compete with this team.
- What we wanted most was to t through this game without any major injuries. Unfortunately that didn’t happen. Julian Whigham, our fine young defensive back suffered an internal chest/abdominal injury on a play in the end zone in the first quarter and was taken to the hospital in extreme pain. Last I heard they were determining if surgery was needed. He had some prior surgery in that area for an esophageal disorder. Jerami was tacking a Florida State player in the end zone and Whigham came up and ran into his teammate. It looked like 100 plays you might see in a game but one account I’ve read said that ABC had a shot of injury “so gruesome they couldn’t show it.” Ugh.
- We may still get to a bowl but this is the first Syracuse team since 1894 to lost three different games by five touchdowns or less. We are fortunate there is such a gap in our division behind Florida State and Clemson and that we had a number of “winnable” games so we could kind of masquerade as a good team. But that’s what it is: a masquerade.
- We can build all the facilities you want but we will never have a team anywhere near as good as this Florida State team. Maybe someday they will have an off year and we will have a genuinely good team and beat them in the Dome but we’ll never climb the heights that the Noels have ascended.
- The TV color man suggested that we were telegraphing our plays by the stances of our linemen and thus Florida State knew where to run even before the snap. It sure looked like that might be happening. But then they are so quick, it may have made no difference.
- We concentrated on “keeping them in front of us” but the cushions we gave their receivers were such that they could catch balls in stride and position themselves to make moves on the defenses. And the Noles are so quick and agile that they can make people miss and accelerate while they are doing it.
- Why did we run the ball on the last play? We were at their 24 yard line with 12 seconds left.
- Twice this season I’ve gone to a friend’s house to watch an SU football game and both times we lost by 56 points. At least the company was good: it beat glumly watching the fiasco alone at home.
- What we wanted most was to t through this game without any major injuries. Unfortunately that didn’t happen. Julian Whigham, our fine young defensive back suffered an internal chest/abdominal injury on a play in the end zone in the first quarter and was taken to the hospital in extreme pain. Last I heard they were determining if surgery was needed. He had some prior surgery in that area for an esophageal disorder. Jerami was tacking a Florida State player in the end zone and Whigham came up and ran into his teammate. It looked like 100 plays you might see in a game but one account I’ve read said that ABC had a shot of injury “so gruesome they couldn’t show it.” Ugh.
- We may still get to a bowl but this is the first Syracuse team since 1894 to lost three different games by five touchdowns or less. We are fortunate there is such a gap in our division behind Florida State and Clemson and that we had a number of “winnable” games so we could kind of masquerade as a good team. But that’s what it is: a masquerade.
- We can build all the facilities you want but we will never have a team anywhere near as good as this Florida State team. Maybe someday they will have an off year and we will have a genuinely good team and beat them in the Dome but we’ll never climb the heights that the Noels have ascended.
- The TV color man suggested that we were telegraphing our plays by the stances of our linemen and thus Florida State knew where to run even before the snap. It sure looked like that might be happening. But then they are so quick, it may have made no difference.
- We concentrated on “keeping them in front of us” but the cushions we gave their receivers were such that they could catch balls in stride and position themselves to make moves on the defenses. And the Noles are so quick and agile that they can make people miss and accelerate while they are doing it.
- Why did we run the ball on the last play? We were at their 24 yard line with 12 seconds left.
- Twice this season I’ve gone to a friend’s house to watch an SU football game and both times we lost by 56 points. At least the company was good: it beat glumly watching the fiasco alone at home.
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