Syracuse 28, Akron 14. Vengeance Is Ours.

by Sean Keeley on Oct 26, 2009 1:52 PM EDT Comment 14 comments

Syracuse running back Delone Carter, third from right, follows the block of Jonathan Meldrum (73) into the end zone for a touchdown against Akron during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. Syracuse won 28-14. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

3 months ago: Syracuse running back Delone Carter, third from right, follows the block of Jonathan Meldrum (73) into the end zone for a touchdown against Akron during the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game in Syracuse, N.Y., Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009. Syracuse won 28-14. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli)

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It's never fun to try and recap a game you didn't watch so I'll leave that to the folks who actually did. Links below and add your own post-game comments as well. (We'll tackle Mike Williams, figuratively, in the next post).

So, first sentence I read in Donnie Webb's game recap:

The Syracuse University football team overcame the loss of star wide receiver Mike Williams (yikes) and a 98-yard kickoff return (yikes!) to turn back Akron 28-14 Saturday afternoon before a Carrier Dome crowd of 36,991 (YIKES!).

Announced 36K??? Oof.

Per Donnie Webb, Delone Carter had career day as Syracuse runs roughshod over Akron. 170 yards and 3 TDs. That's fantastic. After what's been an extremely gritty and not always rewarding season for Delone, great to see he could break through. Huge confidence boost for the O-line as well I'm sure.

In his recap, Brent Axe talks about Greg Paulus was as good as he needed to be.

Greg Paulus, who struggled in his last two games, was as good as he needed to be with a 12-for-17 performance for 105 yards and a touchdown.

The fact that we are talking about what Syracuse did as opposed to what they didn't do, about says it all.

Syracuse University football team punishes rookie Akron quarterback...Donnie Webb
GROUND CONTROL: Carter's 170 yards send SU to win...Tyler Dunne, D.O.
It took a while against feisty Akron, but at the end of the football day, SU zapped those Zips (complete with Moby Dick reference!)...Bud Poliquin
Paulus snaps back to form, plays pick-free...Jared Diamond, D.O.
Is there something more to linebacker Derrell Smith's injury at Syracuse? (YIIIIKES)...Donnie Webb
SU 'D' holds Zips to 0 total rushing yards (wow, Mazel Tov everyone)...Tyler Dunne, D.O.
Syracuse University football team gives mighty Bearcats something to think about...Dave Rahme
Syracuse's Delone Carter makes Big East Weekly Honor Roll...Trish LaMonte
Monday-Morning QB...John Brennan, Orange44
DC3 runs past Akron, looks for more...Sean Herlihy, CuseConfidential
Syracuse-Akron Observations...Russianator, Three Idiots on Sports

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Axe and I went back and forth on twitter about this during the game – there was somewhere between 26-28 K in the building……

by Russianator on Oct 26, 2009 1:56 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Yikes

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by Sean Keeley on Oct 26, 2009 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I had the entire 205 section to myself

and performed an interpretive dance to English pop-rock musician, Jimmy Ray. I kept heard someone say to me, “use inside voices”. Blech.

by TheSportHump on Oct 26, 2009 2:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

hearing it's the moonshine talking

by TheSportHump on Oct 26, 2009 2:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Is that a drawing of

William Taft or Greg Robinson in ten years?

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by Sean Keeley on Oct 26, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

A young

well, young-er, Wilford Brimley.

Perhaps even before he got the diabetUS.

by ezcuse on Oct 26, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

This is where scheduling comes in...

start the season with Maine…. get your 30k game FCS opponent crowd boosted with the opening day crowd. Then… have your Mac opponent… more people will go see 1-0 fraud than 0-1 “played tough in loss” team. Then… your next game could be a 2-0—“maybe we are good again” game against a Big 10 opponent (seeing as we are obligated to play 2 or 3 every year).

Instead… we do dumb crap like scheduling our weak opponents mid-season. Great… now they become must wins just to get within a few games of .500. And we can have a Derrel Smith injured the week before Cincy.

Not only can’t we schedule the right teams, we can’t even put them in a logical order.

Then again… this is just my opinion.

by ezcuse on Oct 26, 2009 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Fair enough

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by Sean Keeley on Oct 26, 2009 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Maybe your theory is why schools like Penn State and Northwestern were willing to schedule us early in the season because we were the low hanging fruit to pick off and come home 1-0 or 2-0.

by Otis Hill on Oct 26, 2009 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs