It is kind of cheesy but just coach speak. It just kind of goes along with “we want to play a tough physical brand of football”. They all say it, most don’t see it through or do it well enough where it separates you from an opponent.
I remember a while ago they used to run a promotion in the 4th quarter for the car wash sponsor and they would read the copy over the PA. "When the Orange are finished cleaning up their opponent, head down to xyz car wash to clean your vehicle." It was embarrassing. I told them so in a post-season survey.
We have no speed and our OL can’t move enough to pull.
The decibel meter in the 4th. First of all it’s fake, it’s just a tool to get the crowd loud and pumped up. It’s amazing how we still seem to get it to the same decibel when we’re down 20 and there is only 11 people left in the building.
It’s what needs to happen for sure. I’m concerned with then lack of adjustment on offense once Angeli got hurt.They need a new o line coach and a complete overhaul on the defensive side.
For some reason i can’t think of anytime they’ve had to go to the backup the ship held together. It certainly happens at other schools, but not Syracuse, and we’re certainly accustomed to that. Who’s our best back up ever? Zac Mahoney? Maybe freshman year Tommy Devito? Losing Angeli certainly ruined the season, but they were going to have to win in shootout style almost every game. I think we had the horses to do so, but it still would have been tough. I don’t want my prediction of 3 season wins to come true after Steve went down, but i think that’s inevitable . It’s going to be GRob era programming these last 3 weeks. Will be interesting to see how the DART culture holds up.
I’m reading it as a message to Rickie that your time here is done.
what’s the other one he uses? CTE or something?
He should be DART enough to honor his word that ERob wouldn’t be here long.
So here is the interesting thing with Jeff Nixon. It’s becoming clear to me that Fran and him are just not on the same page and this stems back from this summer, well before Angeli got hurt. Nixon I think will be gone, perhaps a different primary reason now than before. See before, it was because he was getting a higher profile job. Now, it’s that I think his relationship with Fran is toxic. Two main reasons that I think their relationship has turned toxic. First, Fran the entire summer seemed worried in press conferences, he kept mentioning how we need to adjust things to the players that we have, we can’t be too much like last year, and I think that message was especially for offense. We got a groove with Angeli once it became clear that we need to work the middle of the field. McCord strength was working the sidelines. The second reason is Yasin Willis, don’t need to go into more details, but they clearly disagree on how to use him. I know they go far pretty far back (Baylor). Maybe they are on the same page and know this is a lost cause until they get another serviceable QB in the portal. But it might be best for Nixon to move on to a program where he has enough QBs to work with and do what he does best and for Fran to move on to an OC that is more flexible in philosophy. If Nixon left, we will find out how much our offensive recruiting Nixon really had a hand in. The more interesting conversation is how Fran handles the defensive side of the ball which needs to step up if we can’t rely on elite offensive play. Fran’s most important job right now is to maintain trust with the largest boosters. If he can do that, he will be able to have a product that the fan base will be willing to trust again.
this is why i always want the head coach to be an offensive guy. we're never going to be consistently good on defense so have the coaching turnover there. but we went with a defensive guy who isn't really good at coaching
We went with a lifetime position coach who is a great recruiter who was never a coordinator. He can’t coordinate either side of the ball. It was and is a huge gamble. I just wish he hired some crusty old defensive coordinator like that Rocky dude that Dino did. When it comes to the back up QB, they should have made sure they got a kid that can throw the football even if he’s a statue. Go get some kid from some smaller program even if he’s a some D2 or a great d3 kid who has thrown for a ton of yards, probably he’s a 5th year senior and 23 years old but at least he can throw the ball and he didn’t just get his night license 2 months ago. Kid gets a masters degree and we at least have a kid that can complete a forward pass. Nixon’s offense is pass 45 times a game have a back up plan. they did not
Great point. D2 guy who would be satisfied to get one year in a P4 program for the experience and atmosphere and possible chance to play if an injury occurs to QB1. Kind of kid who will work hard in the system and be a grinder. Would have to be a special kind of person, but they are out there.
It would have at least been entertaining!
Agree that the HC and OC haven’t been on the same page for months. And for whatever reason, the HC has been reluctant to pull rank and tell the OC what he wants to be done.
