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Michael Lasker (67) Was a Standout During Spring Practices
SU OL Ivan Foy on Position Battle with Michael Lasker: 'If Lasker Wins the Spot, That's Fine with Me' (PS; Mink)
The start of training camp is right around the corner, and one of the most important position battles will take place at right tackle, where Ivan Foy hopes to reclaim his starting position from Michael Lasker.
Foy was passed by Lasker in the spring when Foy served an academic-related suspension. Upon returning to the team at the start of summer, Foy and head coach Scott Shafer agreed to have Foy do extra conditioning work.
Foy is down about 30 pounds from the 320 he played at last year when he started all 13 games, and new summer rules allowing him to study film with first-year position coach Joe Adam could help accelerate the learning curve he missed in the spring.
How is Foy approaching camp, knowing he's No. 2 on the depth chart?
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SU OT Sean Hickey Named to Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse tackle Sean Hickey continues to rack up the preseason accolades.
After being named to the Outland Trophy watch list last week, and garnering a spot on multiple preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference teams, the senior was listed as one of 123 players on the Rotary Lombardi Award watch list Monday morning.
Offensive linemen, defensive linemen and linebackers are all eligible for the award's preliminary watch list, with the criteria that they earned All-American honors or were named to their respective all-conference team last season, or received preseason honors this year.
Hickey, who elected to return for his senior season rather than enter the 2014 NFL Draft, is working on being a more vocal leader this summer, SU offensive line coach Joe Adam said on Thursday.
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SU LB Cam Lynch on Watch List for 2014 Lott IMPACT Trophy (PS; Mink)
Syracuse senior linebacker Cam Lynch is one of 42 defensive players on the watch list for the 2014 Lott IMPACT Trophy.
Seventeen linebackers are nominated for the award, which will be presented Dec. 14 at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach.
The Lott IMPACT Trophy goes to the college football defensive player who has the biggest impact on his team both on and off the field, according to a release. IMPACT is an acronym for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity.
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Dyshawn Davis Named to Watch List for Butkus Award (PS; Mink)
Syracuse senior linebacker Dyshawn Davis has been named to the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award, presented annually to the nation's top linebacker.
Davis, who ranks eighth in school history with 31.5 tackles for loss, was bothered throughout last season with a high ankle sprain and recorded 49 tackles with a forced fumble.
He returns as a starter at strong-side linebacker in 2014 and is a second-team preseason All-ACC selection by Phil Steele.
Other ACC linebackers named to the watch list: Clemson's Stephone Anthony, Duke's Kelby Brown, Louisville's Lorenzo Mauldin, North Carolina's Norkeithus Otis, Miami (Fla.)'s Denzel Perryman and Florida State's Terrance Smith.
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SU OL Ivan Foy: 'I Really Thought I was Done' (PS; Mink)
The only time Ivan Foy could bring himself back to a football field, he sat alone in a corner of the Carrier Dome near an exit door. Friends hit up his phone asking if he was attending the spring game. Reluctant, he arrived late.
Foy started all 13 games at right tackle for Syracuse last season. But he was also waging an internal war trying to return to good academic standing. Already on probation, Foy failed a class in the fall and was suspended from all football-related activities. It meant no waking up for breakfast check, no dark winter retreats to Manley Field House for early morning workouts, no spring practice or any other team function. His brief return to normal was hanging out with teammates, but even that felt strange.
"I felt ashamed and embarrassed when I was around the football team," Foy said last week in an interview with syracuse.com, opening up about his academic plight for the first time since being reinstated earlier this summer. "I felt like an outsider."
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ACC News
2014 ACC Countdown: Georgia Tech QB Key to Yellow Jacket Title Hopes (PS; Stevens)
2013 record: 7-6 (5-3 ACC)
2013 postseason: Lost to Mississippi in the Music City Bowl
Last season without a bowl appearance: 1996
Coach: Paul Johnson (48-32 in six seasons at Georgia Tech, 155-71 in 17 seasons overall)
Coordinators: Ted Roof (defense, 2nd season). Johnson serves as his own offensive coordinator.
All-conference returnees: G Shaq Mason (first team)
Notable losses: DE Jeremiah Attaochu, SB Robert Godhigh, G Will Jackson, QB Vad Lee, FB David Sims, DB Jemea Thomas
Rising name to know: S Isaiah Johnson. Perhaps "rising" isn't the best adjective for Johnson so much as "returning." He has, after all, started 29 games in his career. But he missed all of last season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL, taking a redshirt year in the process. His return bolsters a group of safeties that might be the best unit on the Yellow Jackets' roster. Little wonder Georgia Tech is switching from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 to take advantage of its greatest defensive strength. It should certainly help the Yellow Jackets improve their lackluster work against the pass.
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College News
PS College Football Preview/Haiku Fest: Nos. 81-85 Kentucky is Improving But Unlikely to Break Through (PS; Stevens)
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81. KENTUCKY
The circus that is SEC media days starts Monday in Hoover, Ala., and the team least likely to draw a lot of attention to itself is Kentucky.
The Wildcats don't have the new-coach storyline of a season ago. They're staring at a fourth consecutive season without a bowl bid and a fifth in a row without a winning season. They haven't claimed an SEC game since 2011 (Tennessee), a true road game since the 2010 opener (Louisville) and an SEC road game since 2009 (Georgia).
Some, or all, of those droughts will end this season. Granted, expecting a winning season is a bit much at this stage. But coach Mark Stoops has brought in talent and now has to develop it.
Kentucky appears to have a plan for the first time since the Rich Brooks years, when it scheduled softly and carried a big stick — if, by a big stick, you mean made a lot of Music City Bowls. At Kentucky, where football has a history of being a warm-up act for basketball season (and often a well-attended one, at that), there's nothing wrong with that. It sure beats back-to-back 2-10 seasons.
Under Stoops, the Wildcats are recruiting entire classes of SEC-caliber players. The problem is it takes time for them to develop. This probably won't be a .500 bunch, but it will be plenty capable of ruining a borderline bowl team's push for the postseason come late October or November.
Kentucky in haiku:
Big Blue construction
Bumpy road remains in place
Bowl's a year away
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SU News
Michael Lasker (67) Was a Standout During Spring Practices
SU OL Ivan Foy on Position Battle with Michael Lasker: 'If Lasker Wins the Spot, That's Fine with Me' (PS; Mink)
The start of training camp is right around the corner, and one of the most important position battles will take place at right tackle, where Ivan Foy hopes to reclaim his starting position from Michael Lasker.
Foy was passed by Lasker in the spring when Foy served an academic-related suspension. Upon returning to the team at the start of summer, Foy and head coach Scott Shafer agreed to have Foy do extra conditioning work.
Foy is down about 30 pounds from the 320 he played at last year when he started all 13 games, and new summer rules allowing him to study film with first-year position coach Joe Adam could help accelerate the learning curve he missed in the spring.
How is Foy approaching camp, knowing he's No. 2 on the depth chart?
...
SU OT Sean Hickey Named to Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List (PS; Bailey)
Syracuse tackle Sean Hickey continues to rack up the preseason accolades.
After being named to the Outland Trophy watch list last week, and garnering a spot on multiple preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference teams, the senior was listed as one of 123 players on the Rotary Lombardi Award watch list Monday morning.
Offensive linemen, defensive linemen and linebackers are all eligible for the award's preliminary watch list, with the criteria that they earned All-American honors or were named to their respective all-conference team last season, or received preseason honors this year.
Hickey, who elected to return for his senior season rather than enter the 2014 NFL Draft, is working on being a more vocal leader this summer, SU offensive line coach Joe Adam said on Thursday.
...
SU LB Cam Lynch on Watch List for 2014 Lott IMPACT Trophy (PS; Mink)
Syracuse senior linebacker Cam Lynch is one of 42 defensive players on the watch list for the 2014 Lott IMPACT Trophy.
Seventeen linebackers are nominated for the award, which will be presented Dec. 14 at The Pacific Club in Newport Beach.
The Lott IMPACT Trophy goes to the college football defensive player who has the biggest impact on his team both on and off the field, according to a release. IMPACT is an acronym for Integrity, Maturity, Performance, Academics, Community and Tenacity.
...
Dyshawn Davis Named to Watch List for Butkus Award (PS; Mink)
Syracuse senior linebacker Dyshawn Davis has been named to the preseason watch list for the Butkus Award, presented annually to the nation's top linebacker.
Davis, who ranks eighth in school history with 31.5 tackles for loss, was bothered throughout last season with a high ankle sprain and recorded 49 tackles with a forced fumble.
He returns as a starter at strong-side linebacker in 2014 and is a second-team preseason All-ACC selection by Phil Steele.
Other ACC linebackers named to the watch list: Clemson's Stephone Anthony, Duke's Kelby Brown, Louisville's Lorenzo Mauldin, North Carolina's Norkeithus Otis, Miami (Fla.)'s Denzel Perryman and Florida State's Terrance Smith.
...
SU OL Ivan Foy: 'I Really Thought I was Done' (PS; Mink)
The only time Ivan Foy could bring himself back to a football field, he sat alone in a corner of the Carrier Dome near an exit door. Friends hit up his phone asking if he was attending the spring game. Reluctant, he arrived late.
Foy started all 13 games at right tackle for Syracuse last season. But he was also waging an internal war trying to return to good academic standing. Already on probation, Foy failed a class in the fall and was suspended from all football-related activities. It meant no waking up for breakfast check, no dark winter retreats to Manley Field House for early morning workouts, no spring practice or any other team function. His brief return to normal was hanging out with teammates, but even that felt strange.
"I felt ashamed and embarrassed when I was around the football team," Foy said last week in an interview with syracuse.com, opening up about his academic plight for the first time since being reinstated earlier this summer. "I felt like an outsider."
...
ACC News
2014 ACC Countdown: Georgia Tech QB Key to Yellow Jacket Title Hopes (PS; Stevens)
2013 record: 7-6 (5-3 ACC)
2013 postseason: Lost to Mississippi in the Music City Bowl
Last season without a bowl appearance: 1996
Coach: Paul Johnson (48-32 in six seasons at Georgia Tech, 155-71 in 17 seasons overall)
Coordinators: Ted Roof (defense, 2nd season). Johnson serves as his own offensive coordinator.
All-conference returnees: G Shaq Mason (first team)
Notable losses: DE Jeremiah Attaochu, SB Robert Godhigh, G Will Jackson, QB Vad Lee, FB David Sims, DB Jemea Thomas
Rising name to know: S Isaiah Johnson. Perhaps "rising" isn't the best adjective for Johnson so much as "returning." He has, after all, started 29 games in his career. But he missed all of last season after undergoing surgery to repair a torn ACL, taking a redshirt year in the process. His return bolsters a group of safeties that might be the best unit on the Yellow Jackets' roster. Little wonder Georgia Tech is switching from a 4-3 to a 4-2-5 to take advantage of its greatest defensive strength. It should certainly help the Yellow Jackets improve their lackluster work against the pass.
...
College News
PS College Football Preview/Haiku Fest: Nos. 81-85 Kentucky is Improving But Unlikely to Break Through (PS; Stevens)
...
81. KENTUCKY
The circus that is SEC media days starts Monday in Hoover, Ala., and the team least likely to draw a lot of attention to itself is Kentucky.
The Wildcats don't have the new-coach storyline of a season ago. They're staring at a fourth consecutive season without a bowl bid and a fifth in a row without a winning season. They haven't claimed an SEC game since 2011 (Tennessee), a true road game since the 2010 opener (Louisville) and an SEC road game since 2009 (Georgia).
Some, or all, of those droughts will end this season. Granted, expecting a winning season is a bit much at this stage. But coach Mark Stoops has brought in talent and now has to develop it.
Kentucky appears to have a plan for the first time since the Rich Brooks years, when it scheduled softly and carried a big stick — if, by a big stick, you mean made a lot of Music City Bowls. At Kentucky, where football has a history of being a warm-up act for basketball season (and often a well-attended one, at that), there's nothing wrong with that. It sure beats back-to-back 2-10 seasons.
Under Stoops, the Wildcats are recruiting entire classes of SEC-caliber players. The problem is it takes time for them to develop. This probably won't be a .500 bunch, but it will be plenty capable of ruining a borderline bowl team's push for the postseason come late October or November.
Kentucky in haiku:
Big Blue construction
Bumpy road remains in place
Bowl's a year away
...
