Author: JD Raucci
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HALFTIME TAKEAWAYS: Syracuse Hanging Tough with Clemson
The most anticipated football game of the new millennium is officially underway inside the Carrier Dome and while it has certainly not been a picture perfect game from the Orange, the ‘Cuse is hanging tough with the No. 1 team in the country. Overall, it’s been a pretty great bounce-back after last week’s train-wreck. Here…
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Three of Tim Green’s Greatest Moments in a Syracuse Uniform
Lost amidst all the pomp and circumstance of No. 1 Clemson coming to the Dome for Saturday‚Äôs season opener and the panic brought on by a very poor showing against Maryland last weekend are two very special ceremonies set to go down during the game on Saturday. The 1959 National Championship Team is set to…
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A Look Back at the 1959 National Champion Syracuse Orange
Even after a disastrous performance against Maryland that took SU out of both the AP and Coaches‚Äô polls, this Saturday‚Äôs matchup against No. 1 Clemson still has a ton of hype surrounding it. The Dome is sold out and expected to be teetering on record-breaking numbers. Heck, the top team in the country/defending national champion…
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Three Things We Learned in Saturday’s Win over Liberty
The most anticipated Syracuse football season in two decades got off to a great start on Saturday night with a 24-0 shutout victory over Liberty in the season opener. It was far from a perfect performance, but still a dominant win against a Hugh Freeze coached team is nothing to scoff at and the nice…
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How Good Can SU’s Defense Be in 2019?
It‚Äôs not really a secret at this point that the calling card for Syracuse football in its three years under Dino Babers has been the high-flying, high-octane, don‚Äôt-let-the-defense-breathe offense. I mean, for goodness sakes, the hashtag surrounding the team for each of the past three years (#OITNF if you‚Äôve somehow forgotten) is all about just…
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Three 2020 Wideouts SU Should Heavily Pursue
It‚Äôs almost become overstated at this point that Syracuse has become known for producing breakout wide receivers in the Dino Babers era. Amba Etta-Tawo, Steve Ishmael and Jamal Custis all had pretty huge final seasons with Dino at the helm and although it‚Äôs not quite obvious who that breakout candidate will be in 2019, everyone‚Äôs…
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Getting to Know Canadian WR Kevin Mital
For months (six to be exact), we thought that Syracuse‚Äôs 2019 recruiting class was complete. Some thought it was a bit underwhelming coming off of a magical ten-win season, while others thought it had a chance to be a diamond-in-the-rough type cycle for the Orange. Whichever way you thought, the assumption was that the only…
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SU Picks Up Fourth DB Commit of 2020 Cycle
Syracuse missed out on a really highly touted and talented wide receiver in four-star Bryce Gowdy on Tuesday night. It would have been hard to completely make up for that in just 24 hours, but the Orange did take a step in recuperating their losses just about 20 hours later. SU picked up its 14th…
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Boeheim’s Army’s Greatest Syracuse Moments
Boeheim’s Army opens up its run in this year’s edition of The Basketball Tournament as the No. 1 seed in the Syracuse region this Friday at 7:00 p.m. against We Are D3 at Onondaga Community College’s SRC Arena. With some late additions to the roster, BA is set to be one of the most talented…
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Four-star WR Includes SU in Top Five, Set to Make Decision July 30th
As it stands, Syracuse‚Äôs 2020 football class doesn‚Äôt exactly have its crown jewel. In 2017, that jewel was Tommy DeVito. 2018 saw Trill Williams and Qadir White make a lot of noise near the top, while 2019 was led by a pair of stud linebackers in Lee Kpogba and Mikel Jones. Right now, the best…
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NBA Summer League Destinations for Syracuse Alums and Other CNY Favorites
As we quickly approach the end of June, it‚Äôs now the time when the NBA offseason begins to heat up. The NBA Draft wrapped up last week, free agency begins on Sunday, June 30th at 6:00 p.m. ET and the NBA Summer League begins on July 1st with the California Classic and the Utah Jazz…
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NBA Player Comps for Oshae Brissett and Tyus Battle
With the NBA Draft coming up on Thursday, it‚Äôs time to start wondering exactly where Tyus Battle and Oshae Brissett will land after the dust settles. Neither of them are featured in the first or second round of any major mock drafts so it looks like they‚Äôll both have to go the undrafted free agent…
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Three Freshmen That Could Make an Instant Impact for Syracuse This Fall
Lost in the shuffle of all the greatness that came with Syracuse football‚Äôs 2018 season (the program‚Äôs first ten win-season in nearly two decades and a Camping World Bowl victory over rival West Virginia come to mind) seems to be just how young some of the key members of the Orange were last season. Two…
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Getting You Ready for Boeheim’s Army 2019
They took right up against the noon deadline on Saturday, but a year after advancing to the Elite Eight of The Basketball Tournament, Boeheim‚Äôs Army officially has its eight-man roster for the $2 million winner-take-all event all squared away and locked in. Although it‚Äôs one player smaller and has a few big switches in the…
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Elite four-star Syracuse target set to make decision Tuesday
With Oshae Brissett‚Äôs decision to head to leave school and keep his name in the NBA Draft, Syracuse all of a sudden has a scholarship available for the next few years that it didn‚Äôt look like they‚Äôd have the opportunity to fill. The 2019 class is essentially set in stone at this point and with…
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Dino Babers and company set sights on St. Thomas Aquinas (FL)
Over the last few years, Dino Babers has really started to mark his territory when it comes to the recruiting scene. While he‚Äôs done a good job of recruiting from a diverse set of locations and talent pools, there have been a few spots that he consistently targets and recruits well out of from cycle…
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Syracuse eyes quartet of pass catchers in 2020, 2021, 2022
The success of Syracuse‚Äôs wide receivers since Dino Babers became head coach prior to the 2016 season has been absolutely outstanding. Amba Etta-Tawo shattered all kinds of single-season records in Dino‚Äôs inaugural year. Steve Ishmael followed that up by breaking career program records in 2017 alongside the Robin to his Batman in Erv Philips. And…
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Syracuse offers 2021 five-star small forward Quincy Allen
The 2019 class is seemingly set in stone. Jim Boeheim is starting to make hard pushes for top-level guys in the class of 2020. And now Syracuse has started to turn at least some of its attention to building up its 2021 class. Just about a month after Boeheim and Gerry McNamara took a visit…
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Tyus Battle Spurned by NBA Draft Combine
Exactly one year and two days ago, we were talking about what Tyus Battle had to prove at the NBA Draft combine, who he had to outperform and how his prospects looked after the combine was over. We won‚Äôt be talking about any of that this year. Battle and the rest of the college basketball/NBA…
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Jim Boeheim Takes Home Visit with 2020 Four-Star Guard
Barring any major surprises, it looks like Jim Boeheim‚Äôs 2019 recruiting class is officially filled out after center Jesse Edwards officially signed his NLI on Monday. There‚Äôs a lot to look forward to as that class gets set to arrive in Syracuse in just a few months. With that being said, however, it‚Äôs about that…
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Joe Girard’s Incredible Ride Since His Commitment to Syracuse
You know who he is. He‚Äôs New York state‚Äôs all-time leading scorer on the hardwood and a three-time All-State quarterback on the gridiron. He grew up just three hours away from Syracuse. He‚Äôs drawn early comparisons to Gerry McNamara. He is Joe Girard III. Perhaps the most talked about recruit of Jim Boeheim‚Äôs 2019 class,…
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Second Maryland-based Running Back of 2020 Class Commits to SU
It appears Dino Babers may have found his new favorite recruiting spot for running backs. Just a day after SU‚Äôs spring game and just five hours after the commitment of fellow Maryland native Sean Tucker, three-star running back Marlowe Wax made his collegiate decision known to the college football world on Sunday: Thank You God.…
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Syracuse’s Best Moments in Years of the Tiger
‚ÄúThe Return to Glory‚Äù Believe it or not, that‚Äôs not what was said when Syracuse football capped its off its first 10-win season since 2001 in December with a win over West Virginia in the Camping World Bowl. It was said, however, when Eldrick Tont Woods sank a bogey putt on the 18th hole at…
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Syracuse Football’s Unique Recruiting Strategy
What if we told you that Syracuse football was No. 2 in the country? You‚Äôd probably look at us like we had 10,000 heads and had lost all of our marbles. Well, it‚Äôs actually true, but not necessarily in the way that most SU fans would hope for. According to 247Sports and The Athletic‚Äôs Max…
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SU lands pair of linemen, one grad transfer, one as first commit in 2020
Now that basketball season has officially come to a close and football season is still five months away, it‚Äôs time to turn our collective attention back to the recruiting scene. The basketball team is making some late-cycle noise with a skilled European center on his way for a visit next week, but it‚Äôs the football…
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Don’t Worry Too Much About Frank Howard’s Suspension
Well, don‚Äôt think anyone saw this one coming. BREAKING: #Syracuse senior Frank Howard is OUT for “an indefinite period of time” due to a violation of athletic department policy. No idea whether the PG play at all in his last NCAA Tournament. Right after a career-high 28 points vs. Duke. — Orange Fizz (@OrangeFizz) March…
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West Coast Bias?: Syracuse basketball’s success west of the central time zone
Eight cities across the country are getting set to host the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament this weekend. Only two of them lie further west than the central time zone: San Jose, CA and Salt Lake City, UT. Both of those locations are more than 2,000 miles away from Syracuse, but because of…
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Previewing the ACC Tournament and Syracuse’s Path to a Conference Title
Well, that‚Äôs certainly not the end to the regular season we envisioned or the result SU was looking for. Blowing yet another halftime lead and dropping the final game of the regular season to Clemson probably wasn‚Äôt what Jim Boeheim had drawn up to improve the Orange‚Äôs NCAA Tournament resume, but the season is far…
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Reacting to the first Syracuse football depth chart of 2019
Nearly all of the attention that Syracuse fans have to spare is currently focused solely on SU basketball and for good reason. The Orange have put themselves in a great spot to make the NCAA Tournament and are coming off a dominant win over Wake Forest, before welcoming No. 2 Virginia to the Dome on…
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Charity Stripe Chaos: How Syracuse’s Free Throw Shooting Isn’t All That Free
The free throw line. The charity stripe. The bonus. Freebies. Simply from names associated with the shot, it‚Äôs pretty easy to tell that the entire point of a free throw is to give a team that is wronged in one way or another an opportunity to pick up free and easy points on what many…
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Three things you need to know about No. 5 North Carolina
Everybody said that the six-game stretch from February 13th-March 4th was going to be a crazy one for Syracuse and it‚Äôs already lived up to the hype. An ugly loss to a tough NC State team, a blowout win over then-No. 18 Louisville and a heartbreaking loss to No. 1 Duke in front of a…
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Four former Syracuse football players trying to make their mark in the AAF
Football doesn‚Äôt end in February anymore, folks. We‚Äôre just under two weeks removed from the end of the NFL season and another Patriots Super Bowl win, yet there‚Äôs still professional football being played in mid-February. That‚Äôs thanks to the newly introduced Alliance of American Football (AAF) that debuted over the weekend. The upstart league is…
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Comeback falls way short, No. 22 FSU steamrolls Syracuse, 80-62, in the Dome
It looked like Syracuse (16-7, 7-3 ACC) was dead in the water. The Orange trailed 36-14 with 5:58 to go in the first half. Florida State (17-5, 5-4 ACC) was in the midst of a dominant 30-7 run, SU had missed six of its last seven shots, was 1-7 from beyond the arc and 1-4…
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Five-star center Isaiah Stewart spurns Syracuse, headed to Washington
One of the biggest narratives surrounding Syracuse basketball this season has been the Orange‚Äôs inability to get production from the center spot. Paschal Chukwu and Marek Dolezaj have improved their games a touch over the last week or so, but still, Syracuse hasn‚Äôt had a standout center since Rakeem Christmas in the 2014-2015 season. Unfortunately…
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Three-Star Safety Dorian Hewett Decommits From Syracuse
With the magical run that Syracuse football put together in 2018, SU fans started to become accustomed to happy surprises on the recruiting scene. The top three players in the Orange‚Äôs class of 2019 (Mikel Jones, Lee Kpogba and Cornelius Nunn) all officially affirmed their commitment to Dino Babers and company late in the cycle…
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Devin Butler to Transfer From Syracuse
A lot of people surrounding the Syracuse football program had high expectations for wide receiver Devin Butler heading into the 2018 season. With Steve Ishmael graduating, Butler was thought by many to be the team‚Äôs top returning receiver after a 33-reception, 327-yard season in 2017. Needless to say, that top billing did not hold true.…
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