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SU News
Get to Know Your Orangemen: #58 Hernz Laguerre (TNIAAM; Farrell)
Name: Hernz Laguerre
Position: Linebacker
Year: Junior
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 228
Hometown: Spring Valley, N.Y.
High School: Spring Valley
2013 Stats: No stats. He's a walk-on.
2014 Projections: Likely the same. Although who wouldn't enjoy a Syracuse-themed, Rudy 2.0 movie just titled, "Hernz"?
How'd He Get Here: Laguerre didn't play football until his senior year of high school, he told The NewsHouse. Everyone had told him he was too small so he played basketball and ran cross country, instead. He bulked up to 225 pounds as a senior and played defensive end. As a freshman at Syracuse, he made the team as a walk-on.
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Get to Know Your Orangemen: #65 Jamar McGloster (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Name: Jamar McGloster
Position: Offensive Tackle
Year: (RS) Freshman
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 311
Hometown: Hillside, N.J.
High School: St. Anthony High School
2013 Stats: None -- redshirted
2014 Projections: With such an experienced group of linemen returning for Syracuse, it's going to be hard for anyone new to crack the rotation. But as of right now, McGloster could certainly get some time on the field. He has great size and could be used to give Sean Hickey a break from time to time.
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Recruiting
SU OL Recruit Cody Conway 'Didn't Want to Miss Out on an Opportunity' to Join SU Football Team (PS; Mink)
Cody Conway was on the phone Friday with quarterbacks coach Tim Lester soon after learning two other offensive line prospects joined Syracuse's 2015 recruiting class.
Conway knew Syracuse was in the market for five offensive linemen in this recruiting cycle. He knew St. Thomas Aquinas High School teammates Colin Byrne and Sam Clausman took two of those spots. And Conway said he was told a third offensive lineman expressed interest in committing as well.
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Rutgers Offers Canadian Standouts Rene, Sutherland and Vilian Dujring Friday Visit (nj.com; Hunt)
Friday, the Rutgers staff extended offers to three Canadian underclassmen who took unofficial visits to the school: 6-1, 180-pound St. Peter Catholic (Ottawa, Canada) sophomore cornerback Patrice Rene and Lester B. Pearson Catholic's (Ottawa, Canada) 6-4, 235-pound freshman defensive end Luiji Vilain and 5-10, 175-pound freshman cornerback Jonathan Sutherland.
Victor Tedondo, mentor and trainer of the Canadian recruits as well as founder and program director of Gridiron Academy in Ottawa, Canada, accompanied the offerees on their Rutgers trek, and provided background on each prospect.
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ACC News
Vote ACC Games as Non-Conference? (ESPN; Adelson)
The biggest surprise out of the spring meetings last week in Amelia Island, Florida, was not the news that the ACC would be sticking with eight conference games. It was the news that ACC teams could schedule games against league members and have them count as non conference games.
Sounds like another #goACC moment, right?
Not so fast. The idea does have some merit.
While it might seem counterintuitive -- why not go to nine conference games? -- it makes sense. The ACC did not want to mandate everybody playing nine conference games because Notre Dame presents a huge complicating factor and four league teams have built-in SEC rivalries. So why not let NC State play Duke if they so choose and have it count as a nonconference game? The schools are 23 miles apart; they should play more than they are right now. Doing so allows some of the schools in favor of nine conference games to at least get what they wanted, in a roundabout way.
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Everett Golson Has Work to Do to Win Back the Starting QB Job
Podcast: ND HC Brian Kelly on ND QB Battle, ACC Dilemma and More (Foxsports.com)
By most standards, it’s been quite an opening to Brian Kelly’s tenure at Notre Dame.
In his four years in South bend, the Irish have made four bowl games, including a national championship game appearance.
This is Notre Dame, though, where there’s championship history and decades of echoes waiting to be awoken, so Kelly knows he needs to keep elevating the program.
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ND Football Schedule Rumors: Kelly Wants to Keep Playing Michigan and Michigan State and Play More SEC Teams (universityherard.com; Westerholm)
Brian Kelly, and likely the rest of the Notre Dame community, would like to see the Fighting Irish play the Michigan Wolverines beyond the foreseeable future.
The Notre Dame head football coach told ESPN from a school golf event in Olympia Fields, Ill. he also wants to see his team play the Michigan State Spartans as well. Beyond this football season, Notre Dame and Michigan do not have a scheduled game, but they have played annually since 2002. This year, they will meet in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday, Sept. 6.
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ACC Ultimate Road Trip Week 1 (ESPN; Fortuna)
Spring football has come and gone, commencement exercises are taking place across the country and, soon enough, we'll enter the darkest of all periods for college football fans: The summer, where the only good news surrounding most programs is no news at all.
So let's have some fun and start dreaming about all of the sites we want to take in this fall. We've done this road trip series before, but as a refresher, here's what we're going for: We take a look at the ACC's schedule week-by-week, throwing monetary concerns in the air and letting our imaginations run wild with all of the different campuses and atmospheres we would like to take in come the 2014 season.
This is how we would kick things off:
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Why the ACC Will Soon Catch Up to the SEC (BR; Wallace)
The 2014 NFL draft gave the SEC plenty of attention, and with good reason; the conference was home to the No. 1 overall pick—South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney—and the most players selected overall (49). It marked the eighth consecutive year that the SEC has led the nation in NFL draft selections, dating back to 2007.
What you might not have noticed, however, was the ACC’s draft success. The conference had 42 players selected this year, the second-most in ACC history behind the 51 who were selected in 2006.
It was the most visible sign yet that the ACC is closing the gap on its bigger, more successful regional rival. Over the last two seasons, ACCfootball has made big changes and gains that show that it will catch up with the SEC in due time.
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Other
The 100 Things We Are Most Excited For in the 2014 College Football Season Part 1 (100-81) (si.com; staff)
One-hundred days remain until the start of the 2014 college football season. One-hundred days until Abilene Christian visits Georgia State on Aug. 27, and the road to the inaugural College Football Playoff begins in earnest. Catch up on TV shows now. Try new restaurants, or pick up new hobbies, or spend time with the in-laws. One-hundred days from now, college football — in all of its glory — will return.
Over the course of this week, Campus Union will unveil the 100 things it is most excited for in the upcoming 2014 season. That starts on Monday, with 100-81.
100. Arguing over rankings. If anything in America is more popular than football, it’s rankings. We rank crackers and breakfast cereals and almost come to blows over it. With something as serious as college football, the struggle is real. Just remember to pace yourself and stretch before taking part in this exhausting, contentious and unquestionably worthwhile endeavor. – Martin Rickman
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AT&T Aims to Beat Verizon at Football with $48.5 Billion DirectTV Deal (PS; AP)
One of the hidden benefits of AT&T's $48.5 billion planned purchase of DirecTV is that it raises the possibility of making DirecTV's programming crown jewel, NFL Sunday Ticket, more broadly available on mobile devices.
Making exclusive live NFL game programming available on AT&T smartphones could trump Verizon's deal with the NFL for certain live game streams on its phones, because NFL Sunday Ticket involves most NFL games, not just a handful on certain nights of the week.
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Profile On AJ Mass, SU Grad, Former Mr Met (amazingavenue.com; Harkins)
Thomas E. Harkins: We’ve all seen the story by now about how the Secret Service warned you not to go near President Clinton back at Shea Stadium in 1997. Tell me about that night.
A.J. Mass: It was a scary situation. We didn’t know that President Clinton was coming; it kind of was a last-minute thing. He wanted to give a little speech, because Jackie Robinson’s Number 42 was about to be retired throughout all of baseball. So they spent all night erecting these metal detectors and checkpoints all over the stadium. You didn’t even recognize it; it looked more like LaGuardia Airport than it did Shea Stadium.
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Simply put, I went to college at Syracuse University; everybody who cuts highlights for SportsCenter was a graduate of Syracuse University, and was a friend of mine. When I was Mr. Met, they always put me in the highlight film. When I told them, "I’m not Mr. Met any more," they stopped!
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SU News
Get to Know Your Orangemen: #58 Hernz Laguerre (TNIAAM; Farrell)
Name: Hernz Laguerre
Position: Linebacker
Year: Junior
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 228
Hometown: Spring Valley, N.Y.
High School: Spring Valley
2013 Stats: No stats. He's a walk-on.
2014 Projections: Likely the same. Although who wouldn't enjoy a Syracuse-themed, Rudy 2.0 movie just titled, "Hernz"?
How'd He Get Here: Laguerre didn't play football until his senior year of high school, he told The NewsHouse. Everyone had told him he was too small so he played basketball and ran cross country, instead. He bulked up to 225 pounds as a senior and played defensive end. As a freshman at Syracuse, he made the team as a walk-on.
...
Get to Know Your Orangemen: #65 Jamar McGloster (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Name: Jamar McGloster
Position: Offensive Tackle
Year: (RS) Freshman
Height: 6'5"
Weight: 311
Hometown: Hillside, N.J.
High School: St. Anthony High School
2013 Stats: None -- redshirted
2014 Projections: With such an experienced group of linemen returning for Syracuse, it's going to be hard for anyone new to crack the rotation. But as of right now, McGloster could certainly get some time on the field. He has great size and could be used to give Sean Hickey a break from time to time.
...
Recruiting
SU OL Recruit Cody Conway 'Didn't Want to Miss Out on an Opportunity' to Join SU Football Team (PS; Mink)
Cody Conway was on the phone Friday with quarterbacks coach Tim Lester soon after learning two other offensive line prospects joined Syracuse's 2015 recruiting class.
Conway knew Syracuse was in the market for five offensive linemen in this recruiting cycle. He knew St. Thomas Aquinas High School teammates Colin Byrne and Sam Clausman took two of those spots. And Conway said he was told a third offensive lineman expressed interest in committing as well.
...
Rutgers Offers Canadian Standouts Rene, Sutherland and Vilian Dujring Friday Visit (nj.com; Hunt)
Friday, the Rutgers staff extended offers to three Canadian underclassmen who took unofficial visits to the school: 6-1, 180-pound St. Peter Catholic (Ottawa, Canada) sophomore cornerback Patrice Rene and Lester B. Pearson Catholic's (Ottawa, Canada) 6-4, 235-pound freshman defensive end Luiji Vilain and 5-10, 175-pound freshman cornerback Jonathan Sutherland.
Victor Tedondo, mentor and trainer of the Canadian recruits as well as founder and program director of Gridiron Academy in Ottawa, Canada, accompanied the offerees on their Rutgers trek, and provided background on each prospect.
...
ACC News
Vote ACC Games as Non-Conference? (ESPN; Adelson)
The biggest surprise out of the spring meetings last week in Amelia Island, Florida, was not the news that the ACC would be sticking with eight conference games. It was the news that ACC teams could schedule games against league members and have them count as non conference games.
Sounds like another #goACC moment, right?
Not so fast. The idea does have some merit.
While it might seem counterintuitive -- why not go to nine conference games? -- it makes sense. The ACC did not want to mandate everybody playing nine conference games because Notre Dame presents a huge complicating factor and four league teams have built-in SEC rivalries. So why not let NC State play Duke if they so choose and have it count as a nonconference game? The schools are 23 miles apart; they should play more than they are right now. Doing so allows some of the schools in favor of nine conference games to at least get what they wanted, in a roundabout way.
...
Everett Golson Has Work to Do to Win Back the Starting QB Job
Podcast: ND HC Brian Kelly on ND QB Battle, ACC Dilemma and More (Foxsports.com)
By most standards, it’s been quite an opening to Brian Kelly’s tenure at Notre Dame.
In his four years in South bend, the Irish have made four bowl games, including a national championship game appearance.
This is Notre Dame, though, where there’s championship history and decades of echoes waiting to be awoken, so Kelly knows he needs to keep elevating the program.
...
ND Football Schedule Rumors: Kelly Wants to Keep Playing Michigan and Michigan State and Play More SEC Teams (universityherard.com; Westerholm)
Brian Kelly, and likely the rest of the Notre Dame community, would like to see the Fighting Irish play the Michigan Wolverines beyond the foreseeable future.
The Notre Dame head football coach told ESPN from a school golf event in Olympia Fields, Ill. he also wants to see his team play the Michigan State Spartans as well. Beyond this football season, Notre Dame and Michigan do not have a scheduled game, but they have played annually since 2002. This year, they will meet in South Bend, Ind. on Saturday, Sept. 6.
...
ACC Ultimate Road Trip Week 1 (ESPN; Fortuna)
Spring football has come and gone, commencement exercises are taking place across the country and, soon enough, we'll enter the darkest of all periods for college football fans: The summer, where the only good news surrounding most programs is no news at all.
So let's have some fun and start dreaming about all of the sites we want to take in this fall. We've done this road trip series before, but as a refresher, here's what we're going for: We take a look at the ACC's schedule week-by-week, throwing monetary concerns in the air and letting our imaginations run wild with all of the different campuses and atmospheres we would like to take in come the 2014 season.
This is how we would kick things off:
...
Why the ACC Will Soon Catch Up to the SEC (BR; Wallace)
The 2014 NFL draft gave the SEC plenty of attention, and with good reason; the conference was home to the No. 1 overall pick—South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney—and the most players selected overall (49). It marked the eighth consecutive year that the SEC has led the nation in NFL draft selections, dating back to 2007.
What you might not have noticed, however, was the ACC’s draft success. The conference had 42 players selected this year, the second-most in ACC history behind the 51 who were selected in 2006.
It was the most visible sign yet that the ACC is closing the gap on its bigger, more successful regional rival. Over the last two seasons, ACCfootball has made big changes and gains that show that it will catch up with the SEC in due time.
...
Other
The 100 Things We Are Most Excited For in the 2014 College Football Season Part 1 (100-81) (si.com; staff)
One-hundred days remain until the start of the 2014 college football season. One-hundred days until Abilene Christian visits Georgia State on Aug. 27, and the road to the inaugural College Football Playoff begins in earnest. Catch up on TV shows now. Try new restaurants, or pick up new hobbies, or spend time with the in-laws. One-hundred days from now, college football — in all of its glory — will return.
Over the course of this week, Campus Union will unveil the 100 things it is most excited for in the upcoming 2014 season. That starts on Monday, with 100-81.
100. Arguing over rankings. If anything in America is more popular than football, it’s rankings. We rank crackers and breakfast cereals and almost come to blows over it. With something as serious as college football, the struggle is real. Just remember to pace yourself and stretch before taking part in this exhausting, contentious and unquestionably worthwhile endeavor. – Martin Rickman
...
AT&T Aims to Beat Verizon at Football with $48.5 Billion DirectTV Deal (PS; AP)
One of the hidden benefits of AT&T's $48.5 billion planned purchase of DirecTV is that it raises the possibility of making DirecTV's programming crown jewel, NFL Sunday Ticket, more broadly available on mobile devices.
Making exclusive live NFL game programming available on AT&T smartphones could trump Verizon's deal with the NFL for certain live game streams on its phones, because NFL Sunday Ticket involves most NFL games, not just a handful on certain nights of the week.
...
Profile On AJ Mass, SU Grad, Former Mr Met (amazingavenue.com; Harkins)
Thomas E. Harkins: We’ve all seen the story by now about how the Secret Service warned you not to go near President Clinton back at Shea Stadium in 1997. Tell me about that night.
A.J. Mass: It was a scary situation. We didn’t know that President Clinton was coming; it kind of was a last-minute thing. He wanted to give a little speech, because Jackie Robinson’s Number 42 was about to be retired throughout all of baseball. So they spent all night erecting these metal detectors and checkpoints all over the stadium. You didn’t even recognize it; it looked more like LaGuardia Airport than it did Shea Stadium.
...
...
Simply put, I went to college at Syracuse University; everybody who cuts highlights for SportsCenter was a graduate of Syracuse University, and was a friend of mine. When I was Mr. Met, they always put me in the highlight film. When I told them, "I’m not Mr. Met any more," they stopped!
...
