Tag: Syracuse
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Fizz Instant Reaction: Pitt 19, Syracuse 9
Ian Unsworth hosts our weekly postgame Twitter Space to react to SU’s abysmal 19-9 loss to Pitt. We discuss: Carlos Del Rio-Wilson’s first career start, the poorest of poor O-line Play, all the defensive injuries (and why) and much more.
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Way-Too-Early Syracuse Basketball Player Previews: Judah Mintz
With November right around the corner, it’s time to preview the crew looking to resurrect Syracuse basketball from an abysmal 16-17 season last year. What better than doing it one-by-one and starting with the possible “1” guard to lead this team on the offensive side of the ball. Welcome to the Judah Mintz era in…
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What More Does Syracuse Have To Do To Earn College GameDay?
Syracuse is one of seven Power Five schools to have never hosted “College GameDay”. Amidst the Orange’s strongest start in years, fans thought ESPN’s popular show could make its first appearance on the hill before then 18th-ranked SU’s matchup with 15th-ranked NC State. That didn’t happen. That weekend, GameDay went to Knoxville, TN for No.…
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How good of a hire has Robert Anae been?
The Robert Anae hype train was off and running after the first two games of Syracuse‚Äôs season. Blowout wins over Louisville and UConn saw Garrett Shrader become a Pro Football Focus darling after performances of 18/25 236 yards two touchdowns and no interceptions against the Cardinals and 20/23 292 yards three touchdowns and no picks…
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Top 10 NFL Players Who Played For Syracuse
Syracuse has a history of producing incredible football players. Syracuse can claim one of the best alumni classes in NFL history with multiple players in Canton. Whether you are into NFL betting or you‚Äôre a big college or NFL fan, you are sure to have heard a few of these names. Here are ten of…
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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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UCLA and USC Just Signaled the Death of the Power Five
While college athletics has been a mutating industry since its dawn (Alabama was once in the SoCon), our current iteration is now dead. The concept of a Power 5 is no longer after USC and UCLA’s decision to flee to the Big Ten. Perhaps that’s for the best since the idea of enough elite football…
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Syracuse Needs 5-Star Ian Jackson to Bring the NYC Swagger Back
The move to the ACC will always be a tortured one for Syracuse fans. Of course, everyone realizes the survival of the program as a Power 5 football school meant it was a necessity. Had the Orange not jumped ship to the ACC it would have been left for dead like UConn, scrambling for a…
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Super Shorthanded Syracuse Ends Season with Valiant 88-79 Loss to Duke
No Jesse Edwards. No Benny Williams. And the worst of it all, no Buddy Boeheim, suspended for one game after the ACC ruled he punched Florida State’s Wyatt Wilkes in the gut yesterday. All odds were stacked against nine-seed Syracuse heading into Thursday’s matchup with top-seed Duke. With all the hurdles to overcome, it would’ve…
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Breaking Down Syracuse vs. Florida State
The ACC tournament is nearly upon us. Just a couple of days from now Syracuse will be down in Brooklyn battling it out for ACC supremacy. Its first opponent? Florida State. A team SU split its season series with. Oddly enough, each team got its win on the other‚Äôs home floor. The Orange took care…
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Why New WR Coach Michael Johnson Is a Key Addition for SU
Tuesday morning CFB Insider Pete Thamel tweeted Syracuse had added FAU’s Michael Johnson to its coaching staff. Even though some may overlook the importance of a positional coach, Orange fans should pay attention to this. Johnson has experience as a hungry recruiter at bigger programs, and as an offensive coordinator in the NFL. This is…
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Could Syracuse Target Western Kentucky’s Record-Setting Offense?
The Syracuse football season is over but there is plenty to talk about. Looks likethe Orange will welcome Notre Dame to the Carrier Dome for the first timesince 2003. The big date with the Irish will land on October 29th and a win would be perhaps the biggest in years for the program. It appears…
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Claw Marks: Villanova Runs Away from Syracuse in 2nd Half at MSG
Long range shooting and dominance on the glass were the ingredients in a Villanova win over Syracuse at MSG 67-53. All was well in the first half, as SU harassed the Wildcats into poor shooting and the Orange held a 29-26 lead at the break. But Nova went white hot in the second half, shooting…
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Could Jim Mora at UConn Hurt Syracuse Recruiting?
UConn is still laboring on the hamster wheel of college football, insisting it will get somewhere despite running in place for so long. The latest swing is the hire of Jim Mora Jr., who spent 6 seasons at UCLA going 46-30, and 29-24 in the Pac-12. In his first four seasons with the Bruins he…
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The Boeheim Bunch: Where Does Syracuse’s Class Rank After Big Commitment?
Chris Bunch rounded out an amazing recruiting class for Syracuse when he committed on Thursday. The Orange now have elite talent at every position on the floor coming in next season (assuming they all sign their LOIs). With the addition of Bunch, Syracuse’s class is now a top 10 group. 247 Sports jumped them to…
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Crystal Ball Prediction for 4-Star Chris Bunch
In just a few hours 4-star wing Chris Bunch will choose between Syracuse, Washington and Rutgers. The Orange would round out an impressive Class of ’22 if Bunch joins. They already have a quartet of talent coming in, with the last open position in the starting five coming at SF. Point Quadir Copeland, shooting guard…
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Can Syracuse Survive These Heartbreaking Losses?
There’s not many gimmes on the Syracuse schedule. Two weeks ago fans could dream of a bowl game. At 3-1 the work had been done in the non-conference season, a foundation had been built. Today, it’s a little bleaker. The Orange have lost a pair of three-point games, at Florida State and home to Wake…
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Big One! How the SU Fans Helped Land 7-Footer Peter Carey
Congrats to the hard core faithful who made the trip to the Dome on Friday night. While you were there to root on the football team to an important win over Liberty, you also helped in another area. Orange Nation inside the Dome assisted in getting a commitment today from 7-foot big man Peter Carey.…
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Could Zion Cruz End Up At Illinois After This Wild Ride?
As documented by the Fizz numerous times throughout the summer, Zion Cruz’s recruitment has more plot twists than a Christopher Nolan film. It may also be more difficult to decipher than Inception. Cruz has been linked to Auburn because he felt like they were family. He’s called North Carolina “a dream school.” Creighton jumped in…
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Crap, Schiano and Rutgers May Have Already Passed Syracuse
Saturday was ugly for a lot of reasons, but perhaps the most damning had nothing to do with the standings. Syracuse’s offense was stagnant. Rutgers moved the ball enough and got a road victory. But the rebuild by Greg Schiano may have already surpassed the Syracuse program, buzzing by in the left lane. The program…
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Syracuse Couldn’t Make it Two in a Row, Fell to Rutgers in Home Opener
Syracuse dropped its home opener to Rutgers 17-7. The first half was a stalemate, literally. It was 0-0 heading into the second. In part that’s thanks to how well the SU defense played, but also because the offense couldn’t gain any sort of momentum. Whether it was penalties, a fumble, or a QB change, something…
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Why This Was the Perfect Weekend for Syracuse Football
If you read any preseason preview or listened to any college football analyst, Syracuse was destined for a lost campaign. The talent wasn’t any good. The coaching was terrible. The outlook was bleak. After Saturday’s win over Ohio, things aren’t nearly as bad as most thought. In fact, all around that was essentially the best…
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Why Emoni Bates’ Commitment to Memphis is Great News for Syracuse
Syracuse was never involved in the Emoni Bates recruitment. Bates had long been wooed by different power brokers in college hoops, and plenty had been scared off by the assumption he’d never play collegiately. As a Michigan product there were plenty of analysts who predicted if he did attend college, he’d decide on either Michigan…
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Zion Cruz’s Recruitment is Getting Weird
For years the college basketball world has salivated over Zion Cruz. He’s got size: 6’5″. He’s got the rankings. He’s got offers from the blue-bloods. But as we enter September, his decision has been delayed, there’s no clear front-runner, and he just dropped like a rock in the latest ESPN rankings. So what’s going on?…
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Is Ultra Confident Chris Bunch Headed to Rutgers?
Ever since the de-commitment of Kamari Lands, Syracuse has been looking to fill the void. A recruiting class of Justin Taylor and Quadir Copeland is solid, but the loss of Lands has opened a new door. As the Fizz has pointed out, the Orange should sell CNY-product JJ Starling on the opportunity to be the…
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Here’s Why Babers Had to Start DeVito Even If He’s Not the Best QB
Football can be politics. Look at the departure of Oklahoma and Texas to the SEC. The maneuvering was done behind closed doors, and relationships have been broken forever. Why do some head coaches get the benefit of the doubt after a 6-6 campaign, but others get run out of town? The behind-the-scenes politics of decision-makers…
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Syracuse Football ’21: The Good, the Bad, and the Fixable
Kickoff of the season is just over a week away, and Syracuse fans don’t know quite how to feel. Last year’s one-win campaign dampened enthusiasm for the program overall, and pundits are predicting another difficult season ahead. But a new year always brings optimism, and it’s virtually impossible to have a season as poor as…
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Justin Taylor Says He Wants to Create a Syracuse Super Class
Kamari Lands was the first domino to fall for Syracuse’s Class of ’22. When he committed in April all signs pointed to the Orange using that as a carrot for other big recruits. Then Justin Taylor committed to SU, and suddenly the class was discussed as one of the best in the nation. The Fizz…
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Could Zion Cruz Join Dior Johnson at Oregon?
The recruitment of elite guard Zion Cruz has seen plenty of blue-bloods attempt to stake their claim. Originally it looked like Syracuse would have the inside track, as the Jersey City product was playing the Big Apple, hardscrabble type of basketball the Orange have landed for years. Then it looked like Indiana might have a…
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Is Filipowski’s Commitment Proof the Duke Train Keeps Rolling?
Coach K has turned Duke into the surest bet in sports. While the Blue Devils had a legacy of solid college hoops before his arrival 40 years ago, he has built it into an overpowering machine. It’s amusing to hear Jay Bilas and Danny Ferry wax poetic about the early years when nothing was guaranteed,…
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Boeheim’s Army Earns a Trip to the Elite 8 with Convincing Win Over Always A Brave
Boeheim‚Äôs Army cruised to a victory over Always A Brave, 69 – 54, to advance to the Elite 8 of The Basketball Tournament. Tonight‚Äôs performance was convincing, rarely did it seem like BHA was in a precarious position, they were in the driver‚Äôs seat all night.¬† Chris McCullough was the star of the show. The…
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Is LSU Picking Up Steam for Elite Prospect Chance Westry?
Syracuse has swung for the fences this summer. In addition to landing Kamari Lands and Justin Taylor, the Orange have been shopping for even more talent. In a world where the transfer portal spins like Penn Station at rush hour, the SU coaching staff hasn’t rested on its laurels. You can never have too many…
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ACC Kickoff Preview: Louisville
Make sure to check out our content hub where you can find all of the Fizz‚Äôs coverage from ACC Media Kickoff. 2020 Record: 4-7 All-time series: 12-7 Louisville Last Meeting: 11/20/2020, 30-0 Louisville What to Know About the Cardinals: Scott Satterfield‚Äôs team lost some of its best talent this past offseason. On the offensive side,…
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Thank Goodness Syracuse Left for the ACC as Texas/Oklahoma Shake NCAA Again
Leaving the Big East sucked. We all wax nostalgic about the best basketball tournament ever created, the Old Big East, a week of mayhem and madness in Manhattan. The new B.E.T. has lost a lot of the juice. Creighton and Butler just can’t replace Syracuse, Pitt and Notre Dame. And while the new ACC alignment…
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