Author: JD Raucci
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The Fizz’s 2018 Syracuse Football Year-End Awards
Now that we are a week removed from Syracuse finishing off its historic 2018 season with a win over West Virginia in the Camping World Bowl, let’s take a look back at the incredible season that was for Dino Babers and company with the Fizz’s Year-End Awards for SU Football. MVP Eric Dungey This isn‚Äôt…
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Three Things to Know About #14 Buffalo
When we first got a look at Syracuse‚Äôs 2018 non-conference schedule, a couple of games probably jumped off the page. The 2K Classic games at Madison Square Garden were certainly headliners with the rekindling of an old Big East rivalry against UConn and the opportunity to play against one of the best freshmen in the…
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Grier be Gone: Three Ways Will Grier’s Absence Will Impact the Camping World Bowl
Saturday morning gave us news we all had a pretty strong inkling about, but just needed a little confirmation for: BREAKING: West Virginia QB Will Grier will not play vs. #Syracuse in the Camping World Bowl. He’s third in the nation in passing yards/game (351.3) and TD (37). — Orange Fizz (@OrangeFizz) December 8, 2018…
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He’s Back: Tyus Battle Dominates On Way to ACC Player of the Week Honors
Let‚Äôs rewind the clock a few weeks. Tyus Battle is coming off an exhibition against the College of St. Rose where he only mustered 7 points on 1-for-10 shooting. He‚Äôs off to another slow start in the Orange‚Äôs second preseason game of the year against crosstown rival Le Moyne. We ask Fizz Nation a simple…
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Syracuse bolsters secondary with three-stars Cole, Greenwood
For the first time in a couple of months, Syracuse football finally has some down time. SU won‚Äôt find out its bowl opponent until Sunday and even after that will have at least three more weeks until it plays another game. But don‚Äôt let that down time fool you, the Orange were still very active…
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Clobbering in the City: #3 Notre Dame Beats Up On #12 Syracuse at Yankee Stadium
The scene was set: a sold-out top-15 matchup in a huge venue four hours away from the Syracuse campus with the opportunity to spoil Notre Dame‚Äôs College Football Playoff hopes in the most important college football game of the week. It was probably the biggest Syracuse football game in the 21st century. But on the…
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Is Dino Babers the ACC Coach of the Year?
Imagine this. It‚Äôs Thursday, August 30th, 2018, one day before the season opener against Western Michigan. Expectations are a bit higher than last year‚Äôs 4-8 finish, but most don‚Äôt envision Syracuse being anything special in 2018. Then someone tells you that with two games left in the season, the Orange will be ranked 11th in…
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Syracuse Football Week 11 Rooting Guide
If you had asked many people at the beginning of the season what bowl game Syracuse would be playing in come December or January, you probably would have gotten one of two reactions: ‚Äúsome terrible bowl that nobody wants like the Gasparilla or Independence Bowl‚Äù or ‚Äúwhat do you mean which bowl? SU isn‚Äôt even…
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STOCK WATCH: Who’s Up and Who’s Down After NC State
After a mostly dominant 51-41 win over NC State on Saturday, SU football is officially on the up and up. The anticipation and excitement surrounding this team is as high as it‚Äôs been in years and for good reason. The Orange is ranked for the first time in almost two decades (last ranked in 2001)…
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It’s Time to Start Appreciating Oshae Brissett Just A Little Bit More
Two big storylines emerged from SU‚Äôs 80-49 exhibition win over The College of Saint Rose on Thursday. The first was the shining debuts of Buddy Boeheim and Elijah Hughes. Each newcomer went for 19 points and shot over 40% from beyond the arc to get their Syracuse careers ‚Äúofficially‚Äù underway. The other big plot line…
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A look at how past SU basketball teams with high expectations have fared
The AP released its preseason Top 25 poll on Monday and not only did it show us which teams are expected to make gigantic leaps this season (#7 Nevada comes to mind), but it also confirmed something we‚Äôve been speculating on for a while when it comes to Syracuse basketball: there are high expectations for…
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SU Football Offers Pair of Defensive Studs
Even though Syracuse topped North Carolina in a double-overtime nail-biter on Saturday, there are still a lot of questions surrounding the Orange and it seems like most of them remain on the defensive side of the ball. After giving up more than 300 yards of rushing against both Clemson and Pitt in its prior two…
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Three recruits that would make it OK if Joe Girard didn’t pick SU
With Syracuse football on its bye week and coming off two losses, attention has quickly turned from the gridiron to the hardwood for SU fans. The Orange‚Äôs first scrimmage of the season is less than two weeks away when they take on The College of St. Rose in the Dome on October 25th, but another…
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Top 5 Worst Twitter Overreactions/Takes of the Weekend
Twitter is a place for people to vent a little bit, express their feelings and get away from everything else for just a little while. It‚Äôs also a place where people tend to overreact and spew some pretty crazy takes. There‚Äôs no better time for these kinds of bold statements than after a disappointing loss…
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Moving up the Ranks: Making the Case for Syracuse as a Top 25 Team
It‚Äôs 2:00 on Sunday, September 30th. Just the day before, Syracuse football fans had their hearts broken after the team‚Äôs last-minute loss to #3 Clemson in Death Valley. Now, they‚Äôre experiencing a new type of feeling, a feeling they haven‚Äôt felt since 2001. Even after the loss, there‚Äôs a chance that Syracuse could be ranked…
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Tiger Tracker: Three Players to Watch for Clemson
It seems like every week, SU is finding one way or another to make this season a special one. In week one against Western Michigan, Eric Dungey set the single-game rushing record for an SU quarterback. Against Wagner, he tied the school record for most TD passes in a game with 5. Week 3 saw…
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Let’s Party Like It’s 1991: Riley, Defensive Line Lead Syracuse to 51-21 Win over UConn
The last time Syracuse football started a season 4-0, The Silence of the Lambs was one of the most popular movies in the country, Nirvana was taking over the music scene and George H. W. Bush was in the president of the United States. Now with Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Drake topping the…
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Checking out Connecticut: Three Players to Watch for UConn
For the first time in the Dino Babers era, Syracuse football is off to a 3-0 start after a dominant 30-7 win over Florida State last Saturday. Now the attention turns to a former Big East rival in UConn and even though the Huskies lead the all-times series (officially) 6-2, this season has been a…
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Three things we learned from SU’s blowout win over Florida State
For the first time in the Dino Babers era (and for the first time since 2015) Syracuse football is undefeated through its first three games of the season after a 30-7 drubbing of Florida State on Saturday afternoon. SU really dominated the entire game from start to finish and every facet of the game, whether…
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Scouting the Seminoles: Three Players to Watch for Florida State
With a dominant 62-10 win over Wagner last week, Syracuse football is off to its best start in the Dino Babers era, but things are only just getting started. The Orange have their toughest opponent yet coming up on Saturday as ACC play gets going with Florida State. Despite the Noles coming into the game…
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SU Extends Offer to Class of 2020 4-Star Combo Guard Symir Torrence
As the saying goes, real estate is all about one thing: location, location, location. Apparently, basketball recruitment follows the same philosophy. We‚Äôve been expecting it for a while now, but on Saturday, it became official: the Orange offered Syracuse native and class of 2020 combo guard Symir Torrence. https://twitter.com/VTAcademyHoops/status/1033438238151778304 Torrence is from the Salt City…
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Syracuse Football Position Previews 2018: Cornerbacks
When we previewed the other half of the defensive back corps a few weeks ago, we found out just how ineffective the SU secondary was at times last year. Ranking in the bottom 25% in the country in passing defense isn‚Äôt going to cut it in a very competitive ACC in 2018. Luckily, though, it…
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Syracuse Football Position Previews 2018: Wide Receivers
Since Dino Babers came on board in December of 2015, there has been perhaps no unit more impressive for the Orange head man than the wide receiving corps over his first two seasons at the helm. In both of his first two seasons, the up-tempo offense that Babers has installed has created a superstar pass…
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What to expect from Boeheim’s Army for TBT 2018
After its most successful run ever in The Basketball Tournament last year saw it fall in the semifinal to eventual champion Overseas Elite, Boeheim‚Äôs Army is back and better than ever for another run at the fifth annual TBT crown. Some of last year‚Äôs team is back, but there are some fresh faces on this…
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A look at some of the best multi-sport athletes in Syracuse history
Earlier this week, reports started to surface that Syracuse football wideout Trishton Jackson also wanted to walk onto the basketball team in addition to playing for Dino Babers. He‚Äôs sitting out this football season due to NCAA transfer rules after coming over from Michigan State, but it appears that he‚Äôd be eligible to play for…
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A look at Carmelo Anthony’s Olympic legacy
Red, white, blue and orange might not be the most aesthetically pleasing of color combinations, but when they do come to mind for SU fans on a day such as America‚Äôs birthday, there‚Äôs really only one guy that you can point to as the perfect embodiment of all four. Carmelo Anthony is undoubtedly one of…
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Where does the Carrier Dome rank in Travel Channel’s Sweet 16 of college basketball venues?
There are a few things that immediately come to mind when you think about Syracuse basketball. Some think of the 2003 National Championship. Others think of the legendary careers of Jim Boeheim, Pearl Washington or Dave Bing. However, one single thing has to come to represent the team and university more than just about anything…
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Tyus Battle Spurns NBA Draft, Returns For Junior Season
After weeks of waiting, a ton of speculation and virtually no questions answered, we finally have an answer on whether or not we‚Äôll see Tyus Battle in the Carrier Dome next season. The rising junior is staying in Orange and White, according to ESPN’s Jeff Goodman.¬† With the amount of question marks surrounding Battle‚Äôs draft…
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STOCK WATCH: Tyus Battle’s NBA Draft stock post-combine
With the NBA Draft Combine finishing up in Chicago over the past weekend, Syracuse basketball fans will all be wondering the same thing for the next 10 days or so: will Tyus Battle come back for his junior year? Battle has until midnight on May 30th to decide, and until then, he‚Äôll be working out…
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Dome renovations set to make SU’s best-known venue state-of-the-art… or at least a lot better
For years we‚Äôve been hearing about renovations to the Dome. SU fans have been clamoring for air conditioning. Media, us here at Orange Fizz included, have been wondering if the Wi-Fi situation would ever get any better. Well, it appears that at least a couple of the changes that people want to see will be…
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Who could we see on the 2018 Boeheim’s Army Roster?
Early this week, the first two members of the 2018 Boeheim‚Äôs Army roster for the The Basketball Tournament in July and August were revealed and they really weren‚Äôt a surprise. SU legend Eric Devendorf and the winningest player in the history of Syracuse basketball, Brandon Triche, will both represent the Orange this summer. What‚Äôs more…
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Three things Tyus Battle has to prove at the NBA Draft Combine
With a bit less than two months until the 2018 NBA Draft, there are still a lot of questions surrounding the stock of Tyus Battle. As far as we‚Äôve seen there are only two mock drafts projecting him to be picked and that‚Äôs Yahoo Sports who has him going in the second round to the…
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Why the running game is the most important part of SU football’s offense
For the past two seasons, we have been told and promised over and over again that SU football‚Äôs offense is going to move fast. We‚Äôve been told that it‚Äôs going to be one of the most productive and frenetically-paced offenses in the country. For the most part, that promise has come to fruition. Despite finishing…
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Evaluating SU’s top offerees and their chances of coming to Syracuse
Heading into the offseason, everything seemed right in the world of SU basketball. The Orange had just made a magical run to the Sweet 16 and prized recruit Darius Bazley was on his way to SU in the next few months. It‚Äôs kind of funny how quickly things can change in less than a month.…
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Former four-star Pitt basketball commit could soon help Syracuse
It‚Äôs not very often that we here at Orange Fizz talk about how the Pitt Panthers could actually help out Syracuse. Far too often, we‚Äôre talking about basketball-like scores in football games, recruits faking out the Orange to head to the Panthers or the not-so-great record SU had against Pitt in the Jamie Dixon era.…
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SU football offers trio of 2019 O-Linemen
With basketball season officially over and a whirlwind week of roster moves behind us, at least some of the attention around SU athletics should start shifting over to the football side of things. Spring practice is in full swing and Dino Babers‚Äôs bunch gets its first chance to show its new-look defense and wide receiving…
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