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Does Syracuse Really Have Two of the Top Three Cornerbacks in ACC?
Over the past few weeks, ACC Network analysts Kelly Gramlich and Eric Mac Lain have been releasing position rankings for every position in the ACC. Late last week, the duo released their cornerback rankings. Gramlich and Mac Lain showed very high regard for two players in Dino Babers’ secondary. Your eyes do not deceive you.…
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What Needs to Break Right for SU to Make a Bowl?
Syracuse’s football opener is now less than a month away, and that means we’re now in the nitty-gritty of schedule gymnastics. How can SU sneak its way into a bowl? It’s certainly possible, but hinges on a few key factors. Last year, a similar article we wrote nailed some predictions for the ’21 squad. Ready…
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Is Syracuse Too Cheap to Fire Babers?
The short answer is yes. Look around and you see examples of how Syracuse athletics needs to constantly shop on the discount racks. “Jim Boeheim makes a plea to Syracuse fans to step up their NIL donation game” is a headline that blared at the Post-Standard’s website last week. Obviously, legendary coaches at larger, more…
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The State of the Syracuse Football Program
There’s a series done on The Athletic that is very fun to follow every offseason called “The State of the Program Series.” In these pieces, authors that cover various teams for the site preview and layout where the program sits and where it’s going. Essentially, it’s a team preview for the upcoming season and tells…
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Q&A w/ SU Nutrition Professor Jessica Garay
The Fizz has been diving into Syracuse Athletics’ nutrition shortcomings for a past few weeks. In case you missed it, we encourage you to check out our previous coverage. We found that SU is way behind in the nutrition department and its own athletes agree. The Orange are the only athletic program in the ACC…
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Fizz Five 8/9: Duce Chestnut’s Lofty Goals, Basketball Recruiting Updates, Ranked Football Opponents
Ethan Frank and Liam Griffin hop on the mic for this week’s edition of the Fizz Five! As summer winds down, the duo takes a look at some interesting comments made in training camp, recap some recruiting news on the men’s and women’s basketball circuits, assess what to expect when SU football takes on the…
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The Three Position Groups That Will Dictate SU’s Success
Last week the Fizz took a look at three specific actions on the field that could lead to success in 2021. Now it’s time to break that down from a positional standpoint. Sure, the lists intersect in some aspects, but the lists are different in their own ways. With this in mind, Dino Babers needs…
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The Five Games Syracuse Has To Win In 2022
We‚Äôre now just under a month away from Syracuse football‚Äôs 2022 season opener against Louisville. There‚Äôs plenty on the line for both the Orange and head coach Dino Babers this year, and we at the Fizz are currently working on some season predictions. For now, it‚Äôs worth taking a look over Syracuse‚Äôs schedule just as…
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How Does Justin Lamson’s Injury Affect the Grand Scheme?
SU’s quarterback room got a lot deeper this season as Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and Dan Villari joined the program via the transfer portal. Unfortunately, that group just took a hit. Well, that’s tough. Justin Lamson put his name on the map in the Spring Game back in April, as he went 7-10 with 151 yards…
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The Three Things That Will Dictate SU’s Success
As the calendar flips to August (bonkers, right?), football season draws closer by the minute. 33 days from now, fans will pack the Dome for Syracuse’s opener against Louisville. Dino Babers and company will look to get the Orange back to a bowl game for the first time since 2018, but it won’t come easy…
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The Genius Behind SU’s Prolific Running Game
A fresh rendition of Syracuse football is coming up quick folks! Fall camp gets underway in just a few days and from there it’s all downhill to SU’s season opener in the Dome against Louisville. There are a lot of questions (as there usually are with this team) heading into the season. Can Syracuse get…
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What Does History Say about the ACC Preseason Poll?
The 2022 ACC Preseason Football media poll is out, and Syracuse is not in a good spot. The Orange received 201 points from media, the fewest of any team. Even Duke, yes, Duke, got more recognition. This is all preseason speculation of course, but it paints a very consistent picture of the national media’s view…
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Bad News for Syracuse, Big Ten is Not Considering the Orange
The conference realignment murmurs have grown into flat out paranoia (“a mass exodus”) in many circles, as programs wonder what their future is. At stake, a spot with the “have’s” at the college football table, a place where dishes are passed around with $75M checks under them. Syracuse’s ACC revenue is significant, and many could…
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ACC Preseason Poll Doesn’t Think Highly of SU
As crazy as it sounds, the first ACC football game of the season is only a month away and Syracuse’s first game is only 38 days from now. Yesterday the ACC released its preseason poll. 103 members of the media voted in this poll, including those at the ACC Kickoff last week in Charlotte. Be…
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How Syracuse Missed on Former CBA Star SirVocea Dennis
The Fizz has returned from a splendid trip to Charlotte, NC for the 2022 ACC Kickoff. Of course, we covered SU and spoke with Dino Babers, Mikel Jones, Matthew Bergeron, and Garrett Shrader. We also had the opportunity to chat with athletes that SU will meet on the gridiron later this fall. One of those…
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Three Positives From Ike Daniels’ Commitment
Dino Babers and company got fantastic news on the recruiting front Friday. Enter Ike Daniels into the picture for the future. The Stafford, VA native is a three-star running back and the 44th best at his position in the class of 2023 per 24/7 Sports. It goes without saying this affects SU’s situation dramatically. Here…
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Does Syracuse Trail Every ACC School in Sports Nutrition?
Syracuse’s sports nutrition program lags behind every other school in the ACC and players and their high school coaches have noticed. The Fizz is digging into an issue that might be hindering Syracuse football and Syracuse athletics as a whole. Recently, Steve Linton’s high school coach expressed concern that SU was only serving one football…
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Mikel Jones Says Nutrition Program is Hindering SU From Success
Some interesting comments surfaced recently in an interview that Locked on Syracuse aired with Syracuse football defensive lineman Steve Linton’s high school coach. Towards the back half of the conversation, hosts and former Fizzers Matt Bonaparte and Brad Klein asked a question to Roger Holmes, the head coach at Dublin High School in Georgia, regarding…
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Part IV: Syracuse Football Will Be Successful If… Dino Babers’ Coaching Changes Work
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Sean Tucker Added To Prestigious Maxwell Award Watchlist
Compared to last year, it‚Äôs been a relatively quiet summer of Syracuse sports. Men‚Äôs basketball has yet to secure even one commit in the Class of 2023, and SU football hasn‚Äôt blown up the headlines with major moves of its own. Perhaps that‚Äôs to be expected, but we already know freshmen aren‚Äôt going to change…
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The Most Under-The-Radar Storyline of The Past and Present
Syracuse’s special teams weren’t exactly special last season. The Orange were last in the ACC in yards per punt and had the second-worst field goal percentage in the conference. The field goal number is especially jarring considering former Lou Groza Award winner Andre Szmyt was Syracuse’s kicker. Szmyt is entering his sixth year in the…
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Part III: Syracuse Football is Successful If… Secondary Stars Show Out
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Syracuse Football Preview: Strength of Schedule
Syracuse has a demanding schedule ahead of them in the ACC this year.¬† The Orange sit just outside of the top 25 toughest schedules in the FBS. Northwestern holds the preseason No. 25 spot, leaving SU with the 26th most difficult slate. Let’s look at the Orange’s football schedule and a couple of crucial matchups.…
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Part II: Syracuse Football is Successful If… It Wins in the Trenches
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Syracuse’s Guide to Handling Conference Realignment
Ever since Oklahoma and Texas announced their intentions to move to the SEC, conferences have continued to realign. There’s a strong chance it continues in the coming days. After UCLA and USC announced their decision to join the Big Ten we wrote about how that affects Syracuse. Two weeks later, more schools are switching it…
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Part I: Syracuse Football is Successful in 2022 If… Shrader Takes the Next Step
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Predicting SU Football’s 2022 Season: Part 1
College football is creeping up on us Fizz Nation! The final members of Syracuse’s 2022 recruiting class just joined the team recently in the Salt City. SU opens up its season in less than two months. Now, this team is really hard to get a read on so it’s very difficult to go about projecting…
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What Value Can Naquil Betrand Bring?
The most underappreciated position in all of football and perhaps all of sports is the offensive line. If a team can’t protect its quarterback, it will fall faster than the London Bridge. Syracuse was in the middle of the ACC in that category last year, tying for the sixth-most sacks allowed in the conference. As…
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Should Syracuse Try To Join The Big 10?
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the thought that’s surely crossed every embittered college football fan’s mind over the past few days – or years, give or take – as they’ve watched the NCAA’s traditional structure and Power Five alignment begin to break down. It should tell you a lot that UCLA and…
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SU’s Must Win Games To Make a Bowl Game
The seat in which Dino Babers sits upon is apparently lukewarm. Syracuse Athletic Director John Wildhack told us this much last week following the ACC’s scheduling changes. How can Babers solidify his place as the SU head man long term and maybe even earn a contract extension? Well its pretty simple, make it to a…
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Sean Tucker’s List Of Preseason Accolades, Hype Keeps On Growing
Syracuse Athletic Director John Wildhack just talked at length about the state of Syracuse football and the job security of head coach Dino Babers, and sounded typically non-alarmist in the face of rabid media members and fans. Wildhack maintains – predictably, but also laughably – that Babers is not on any kind of hot seat…
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The Sunshine State Gem Syracuse Needs
Thanks to the ACC’s new scheduling format, Syracuse will travel to Florida at least three times in a four-year stretch. That makes recruiting in the Sunshine State a little more accessible, but also a little more important. Based on Syracuse’s needs for the Class of 2023, one player from Florida stands out as a big-time…
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Did Syracuse Strategically Ask For Florida State as a Rival?
The ACC did something extremely smart. It ripped up the old two division format, and created a 3-5-5 scheduling system for football. Instead of a winner coming from the Atlantic and Coastal to meet in the ACC Championship Game, the two best teams in the league will clash. To schedule a one-division league, each team…
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3-Star DL Tyriq Blanding Is Another In-State Miss For SU
As the Summer rolls along, we‚Äôre only bound to learn more about Syracuse football‚Äôs incoming Class of ‚Äò23. Things have been fairly quiet on that front since quarterback LaNorris Sellers committed to the Orange back in March, but you figure SU is gearing up to net some commits and come up with more movie poster…
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Q&A w/ ’23 SU Football Recruit Zyir Daniel
We’re in the heart of summer ball and camp season here in mid-June! Campus is empty here in the 315 but the preparations for the 2022 season continue for Syracuse football. Of course the warm months also offer opportunities to allot more time and energy towards building the future of the program. Dino Babers and…
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