Syracuse 28, Akron 14. Vengeance Is Ours.
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
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
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
Northwestern must have slipped on a banana peel
Penn St. ate well though.
by ezcuse on Oct 26, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Smith is 100% fine
Just cramped up
Syracuse '12
by blackknight76 on Oct 26, 2009 5:43 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Confidence Boot?
Is that when a shy girl wears stripper boots out to the bar and she morphs into something out of a pussycat dolls video?
by suharrier on Oct 26, 2009 3:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Exactly
not a spelling error at all
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by Sean Keeley on Oct 26, 2009 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Low, Low hanging fruit
Our fruit (football team) is so low……that Ryan Lictheiincccstieeeennnnnnn has to use a step ladder to get to it.
I will be here all week, make sure to come to the late show. It’s the best show
and tip your waitstaff, they work hard.
by TheSportHump on Oct 26, 2009 4:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs












