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Coach Babers’s Show will be at the new Marriott Syracuse, (the former Hotel Syracuse). The first show will be Wednesday night at 7PM because the game is Friday, (the show will normally be two days before the next game). They will be in Shaughnessy’s Irish Pub, which can be accessed from the street.
This article contains the schedule:
New Home for AmeriCU Dino Babers Show
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 Alan Nathan 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: #AskDino hashtag on Twitter
Or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Syracuse University Athletics
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)
“Coach, in the last four years Syracuse is 14-18 in September and October and 1-14 in November. I think the problem is depth. A 12 game schedule is a lot for college students to get through and keep competing at the same level. When Jim Brown played here, we played 8 games a season. Then it was 9, then 10, then 11 and now 12. Is the season just too long? “
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 asked the coach what the ‘focus’ was this week and Dino launched into a description of the opponent, Boston College: They are predominantly a running team so you have to stop the run. They are missing their quarterback but it won’t matter much because all they do is give that 240 pound running back the ball 30-40 times a game. We also have to eliminate turnovers. We aren’t getting defensive turnovers and we can’t spot them field positon. Matt noted that the first possession of every road game we’ve thrown an interception but said it’s hard to find a trend beyond that because the circumstances were different on each one. Dino “I think we haven’t had a defensive turnover in ACC play. Freakish, especially considering the quarterbacks we’ve faced.” They talked about Dungey’s play of stealing the ball after throwing the interception against Miami. DB: “I haven’t seen a play like that in 32 years.”
Later Liam from Pompey called and described Louisville as “an embarrassing, tough, hard loss” but said that he hoped the Coach should send the seniors and the team out on a positive note. He asked how we do that and Dino repeated the above but added “They do take a while to move it down the field, (so we don’t want to give them a short field)” and added “It looks like Eric Dungey isn’t going to be able to make it for us.” Matt asked it was likely to be Mahoney or Culpepper replacing him. Dino: “Both have bene at practice working their tails off, learning the schemes. We’ll use both them.” Matt: Will you go with the hot hand? Silence. Matt said that was the first time he’d ever had that as an answer but it was a good one.
Meanwhile I had called in my question but first I made this comment: “This is the 30th anniversary of Don McPherson pitching the ball to #44, Michael Owens for the winning 2 point conversion against West Virginia. What I remember form that era was first the 1964 Nebraska game, followed by three straight losses and a lot of frustration. We didn’t go to a bowl that year but did the next and Coach Mac and his staff recruited the class that made all the difference. Those guys mostly redshirted the following year but moved in en masse in 1987, especially to the offensive line and we went from 5-6 to 11-0 and started a run of 15 consecutive winning seasons, which was matched in those years only by Florida State, Nebraska and Michigan.” I told coach I could see something similar happening in the next few years. He thanked me for my confidence.
Then he answered my question: “I want to say no, (12 games is not too much). The bigger issue is the 85 scholarship limit. At Hawaii we played 12 games a year, (even before everyone else does) but we had more scholarship players to do it. If you bring in 20-25 freshmen and redshirt 20 of them, you’ve got about 70 guys eligible to play. If a lot of injuries hit the wrong positon, you have a problem. That’s why we cross-train guys for different positons for depth. But when you take over a new schools’ team, you are dealing with players recruited for another system and some guys just won’t fit in to the new one. It can be a drastic disadvantage. If they could increase the scholarship limit by 10 it would help us but then you get into Title IX. “
I told Coach that I remembered there used to be a 120 scholarship limit and schools like Penn State would recruit all the players they wanted and the players their rivals wanted. Then, when they reduced the limit to 85, those ‘excess’ players had to find somewhere else to go besides Penn State and many of them wound up at places like Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Coach agreed with that recollection and said “The parity it, (the scholarship reduction) produced was exciting. It spread out the talent so everyone could mount an attack against the ‘big boys’.” Matt suggested that Coach experienced this in the Mid America Conference because the MAC and Conference USA and other mid-majors benefited from the reduced limit. He also said that getting good walk-ons at a private school like Syracuse is a problem and so is the difficulty of our schedule. Coach agreed. Matt also noted that 1AA teams play 13-14-15 games “but their option doesn’t quite have the bodies you will find in the physiques of the FBS”. Again, Coach agreed.
I’ve read that the average number of players used in an FBS game by a team is 52. Title IX supporters use that to suggest that even the 85 scholarship limit is too high. They may have a point. If you only use 52 players a game, why does it make a difference if you have 85 scholarship players available or 70?
They talked about Steve Ismael, who needs one more catch to break Amba Etta-Tawo’s record set last year. He needs 24 yards to pass Marvin Harrison to be #1 in career yards. He might already have passed those marks if he hadn’t had an “off game” against Louisville. Erv Phillips has already set the career reception record with 215, breaking Alec Lemon’s record of 201.
Coach said he “likes to stand next to Big Mo at right tackle. He’s a basketball player turned football player. Hopefully when we come back, we’ll have 3-4 players like him.” That would be 6-7 309 Jamar McGloster. But we already have 6-8 292 Mike Clark, 6-8 270 Liam O’Sullivan, 6-6 338 Evan Adams, 6-6 3-6 Airon Servias and 6-6 296 Cody Conway. Our players don’t lack for size.
Matt noted that next year we will have lost all of this year’s starting linebackers and our top two receivers but that we are getting all but one starting offensive lineman back. Coach added that we will get all our running backs and tight ends back, too. “And they will be in this offense for their 2nd or 3rd years”.
Coach that the defense “had a bad taste in their mouths after last season. They have a sense of pride and it would be nice to send them out on a positive note.”
Matt noted that Coach had gather together the members 2017 team at Heinz field last year after the Pittsburgh game to talk about preparing for the new season. Will he do something similar this year? DB: “I don’t plan those things. Whatever I do will be from the heart. On Sunday we will have a meeting. The 2017 class, (the ones who are graduating), stands and walks to the door to a standing ovation. When the door closes behind them, the 2018 season starts. The assistant coaches have and meeting and by night fall they are out on the recruiting trail. For the first time ever, we’ll have an early signing period, just before Christmas, then a second period in February. It will allow us to hold onto our commitments without the big boys who didn’t get the 5 star they wanted and are now looking for the 4 star players from intervening, as they tried to do with Tommy DeVito.
The special guests were Asil Mulbah, the Director of Recruiting Operations and Dave Boller, the director of Player Personal. Dino explained that they do most of the recruiting work during the season, evaluating players “while the coaches do their Xing and Oing, making sure that we get the right amount and right quality on our plate.”
Dino left and Asil and Dave replaced him but they still had a caller on the line, Tom from Bernhard’s bay who asked “What brain science teaching methodology do you use?” Matt, Asil and Dave basically ignored that question in favor of discussing what technology they use in recruiting. “We use video to make more effective evaluation. You can click on various link and get contact information, their twitter pages, etc. We try to stream line everything.” Matt: “Now you need a graphic designer and access to social media to see how 17 year olds communicate.” Asil and Dave: “We look for their personality type, what they tweet and re-tweet. We’ve taken guys off our board based upon what they tweet. It shows something about their IQs and common sense.” So, kids – watch what you tweet! They are looking for intelligence and common sense on twitter.
They discussed other problems, “How do you project if a player is good enough to play here…..Safeties become linebackers, linebackers become linemen…NFL teams look at 300 players a year. We look at 300 in a month….High school players can’t spend as much time on developing their football skills.”
“You have to get them to visit blow them away on the visit. You also have to get to know them, what makes them tick, how tough they are. “
Matt said that the Clemson game was a boon to the team but they didn’t follow up on it. How are the recruiters following up on it? “WE say what Coach Babers says: Who wouldn’t want to play in this offense?” Matt suggested “SU’s best players can hang with any opposition but we need more of them”. Asil and Dave agreed.
This was the last show of the season. The next Jim Boeheim Show will be Thursday, November 30th.
This article contains the schedule:
New Home for AmeriCU Dino Babers Show
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 Alan Nathan 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: #AskDino hashtag on Twitter
Or through Cuse.com, (the SU Athletic website):
Syracuse University Athletics
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)
“Coach, in the last four years Syracuse is 14-18 in September and October and 1-14 in November. I think the problem is depth. A 12 game schedule is a lot for college students to get through and keep competing at the same level. When Jim Brown played here, we played 8 games a season. Then it was 9, then 10, then 11 and now 12. Is the season just too long? “
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 asked the coach what the ‘focus’ was this week and Dino launched into a description of the opponent, Boston College: They are predominantly a running team so you have to stop the run. They are missing their quarterback but it won’t matter much because all they do is give that 240 pound running back the ball 30-40 times a game. We also have to eliminate turnovers. We aren’t getting defensive turnovers and we can’t spot them field positon. Matt noted that the first possession of every road game we’ve thrown an interception but said it’s hard to find a trend beyond that because the circumstances were different on each one. Dino “I think we haven’t had a defensive turnover in ACC play. Freakish, especially considering the quarterbacks we’ve faced.” They talked about Dungey’s play of stealing the ball after throwing the interception against Miami. DB: “I haven’t seen a play like that in 32 years.”
Later Liam from Pompey called and described Louisville as “an embarrassing, tough, hard loss” but said that he hoped the Coach should send the seniors and the team out on a positive note. He asked how we do that and Dino repeated the above but added “They do take a while to move it down the field, (so we don’t want to give them a short field)” and added “It looks like Eric Dungey isn’t going to be able to make it for us.” Matt asked it was likely to be Mahoney or Culpepper replacing him. Dino: “Both have bene at practice working their tails off, learning the schemes. We’ll use both them.” Matt: Will you go with the hot hand? Silence. Matt said that was the first time he’d ever had that as an answer but it was a good one.
Meanwhile I had called in my question but first I made this comment: “This is the 30th anniversary of Don McPherson pitching the ball to #44, Michael Owens for the winning 2 point conversion against West Virginia. What I remember form that era was first the 1964 Nebraska game, followed by three straight losses and a lot of frustration. We didn’t go to a bowl that year but did the next and Coach Mac and his staff recruited the class that made all the difference. Those guys mostly redshirted the following year but moved in en masse in 1987, especially to the offensive line and we went from 5-6 to 11-0 and started a run of 15 consecutive winning seasons, which was matched in those years only by Florida State, Nebraska and Michigan.” I told coach I could see something similar happening in the next few years. He thanked me for my confidence.
Then he answered my question: “I want to say no, (12 games is not too much). The bigger issue is the 85 scholarship limit. At Hawaii we played 12 games a year, (even before everyone else does) but we had more scholarship players to do it. If you bring in 20-25 freshmen and redshirt 20 of them, you’ve got about 70 guys eligible to play. If a lot of injuries hit the wrong positon, you have a problem. That’s why we cross-train guys for different positons for depth. But when you take over a new schools’ team, you are dealing with players recruited for another system and some guys just won’t fit in to the new one. It can be a drastic disadvantage. If they could increase the scholarship limit by 10 it would help us but then you get into Title IX. “
I told Coach that I remembered there used to be a 120 scholarship limit and schools like Penn State would recruit all the players they wanted and the players their rivals wanted. Then, when they reduced the limit to 85, those ‘excess’ players had to find somewhere else to go besides Penn State and many of them wound up at places like Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Coach agreed with that recollection and said “The parity it, (the scholarship reduction) produced was exciting. It spread out the talent so everyone could mount an attack against the ‘big boys’.” Matt suggested that Coach experienced this in the Mid America Conference because the MAC and Conference USA and other mid-majors benefited from the reduced limit. He also said that getting good walk-ons at a private school like Syracuse is a problem and so is the difficulty of our schedule. Coach agreed. Matt also noted that 1AA teams play 13-14-15 games “but their option doesn’t quite have the bodies you will find in the physiques of the FBS”. Again, Coach agreed.
I’ve read that the average number of players used in an FBS game by a team is 52. Title IX supporters use that to suggest that even the 85 scholarship limit is too high. They may have a point. If you only use 52 players a game, why does it make a difference if you have 85 scholarship players available or 70?
They talked about Steve Ismael, who needs one more catch to break Amba Etta-Tawo’s record set last year. He needs 24 yards to pass Marvin Harrison to be #1 in career yards. He might already have passed those marks if he hadn’t had an “off game” against Louisville. Erv Phillips has already set the career reception record with 215, breaking Alec Lemon’s record of 201.
Coach said he “likes to stand next to Big Mo at right tackle. He’s a basketball player turned football player. Hopefully when we come back, we’ll have 3-4 players like him.” That would be 6-7 309 Jamar McGloster. But we already have 6-8 292 Mike Clark, 6-8 270 Liam O’Sullivan, 6-6 338 Evan Adams, 6-6 3-6 Airon Servias and 6-6 296 Cody Conway. Our players don’t lack for size.
Matt noted that next year we will have lost all of this year’s starting linebackers and our top two receivers but that we are getting all but one starting offensive lineman back. Coach added that we will get all our running backs and tight ends back, too. “And they will be in this offense for their 2nd or 3rd years”.
Coach that the defense “had a bad taste in their mouths after last season. They have a sense of pride and it would be nice to send them out on a positive note.”
Matt noted that Coach had gather together the members 2017 team at Heinz field last year after the Pittsburgh game to talk about preparing for the new season. Will he do something similar this year? DB: “I don’t plan those things. Whatever I do will be from the heart. On Sunday we will have a meeting. The 2017 class, (the ones who are graduating), stands and walks to the door to a standing ovation. When the door closes behind them, the 2018 season starts. The assistant coaches have and meeting and by night fall they are out on the recruiting trail. For the first time ever, we’ll have an early signing period, just before Christmas, then a second period in February. It will allow us to hold onto our commitments without the big boys who didn’t get the 5 star they wanted and are now looking for the 4 star players from intervening, as they tried to do with Tommy DeVito.
The special guests were Asil Mulbah, the Director of Recruiting Operations and Dave Boller, the director of Player Personal. Dino explained that they do most of the recruiting work during the season, evaluating players “while the coaches do their Xing and Oing, making sure that we get the right amount and right quality on our plate.”
Dino left and Asil and Dave replaced him but they still had a caller on the line, Tom from Bernhard’s bay who asked “What brain science teaching methodology do you use?” Matt, Asil and Dave basically ignored that question in favor of discussing what technology they use in recruiting. “We use video to make more effective evaluation. You can click on various link and get contact information, their twitter pages, etc. We try to stream line everything.” Matt: “Now you need a graphic designer and access to social media to see how 17 year olds communicate.” Asil and Dave: “We look for their personality type, what they tweet and re-tweet. We’ve taken guys off our board based upon what they tweet. It shows something about their IQs and common sense.” So, kids – watch what you tweet! They are looking for intelligence and common sense on twitter.
They discussed other problems, “How do you project if a player is good enough to play here…..Safeties become linebackers, linebackers become linemen…NFL teams look at 300 players a year. We look at 300 in a month….High school players can’t spend as much time on developing their football skills.”
“You have to get them to visit blow them away on the visit. You also have to get to know them, what makes them tick, how tough they are. “
Matt said that the Clemson game was a boon to the team but they didn’t follow up on it. How are the recruiters following up on it? “WE say what Coach Babers says: Who wouldn’t want to play in this offense?” Matt suggested “SU’s best players can hang with any opposition but we need more of them”. Asil and Dave agreed.
This was the last show of the season. The next Jim Boeheim Show will be Thursday, November 30th.
