Syracuse Football Officially De-Boned

by Sean Keeley on Nov 19, 2009 3:10 PM EST Comment 13 comments

If Chef Gordon Ramsay was in charge of Syracuse Football, he'd tell us to SHUT IT DOWN, YOU F***ING DONKEYS!

Derrell Smith will miss final two games with torn lateral meniscus. ...Wow.

Wow is right, sirs. Derrell Smith was the best player on Syracuse's defense all season long, leading the team in tackles, sacks and Bones. Smith held on to Scott Shafer's Bone (nh) more often than anyone else this weekend thanks to his hard hitting.

So to get you up to speed, Derrell joins Arthur Jones and the rest of the 22 scholarship players who began the year on the SU roster but whom will not be dressed when the Orange suit up for the final time in two weeks. Here's what I said last week when Art Jones went down for the count:

Alright...who's next? Can we freeze Derrell Smith, Doug Hogue and Shamarko in carbonite during the week to prevent any further injuries or mishaps?

I'm not kidding. I want Doug Hogue propped up in Jabba's Lair by 8pm or I swear to God... Is it possible to ban players who have a lateral meniscus? They seem like such flimsy things to have.

Alright, I'll say it. Let's end this football season already. It's time. The Football Gods are not messing around. Message received.

Update: Dave Rahme has the meniscus-y details:

SU sent out an email this afternoon stating that an MRI revealed a tear in the lateral meniscus in Smith's left knee. Following last week's 10-9 loss at Louisville, Smith reported increased soreness in his knee, prohibiting further activity. Surgery, which will be performed by Dr. Irving Raphael, and rehabilitation will sideline Smith for the rest of season.

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It's your fault

The football gods hate it when a team that won more Big East games in 2004 than it has in all years since post things like this:

http://www.nunesmagician.com/2009/10/9/1078505/beatwvu

Can we please please please please stop it??

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

NEVER

The hashtag beat downs are all we have left – plus I’ve got about 200 jersey jokes teed up for tomorrow.

In terms of Derrell – I want with the McEnroe soundbite – You cannot be serious.

by Russianator on Nov 19, 2009 3:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

OK

why not just take a crowbar to Delone Carter?

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Hashtags

If the hashtags caused the injuries – what caused Greg Robinson?

by Russianator on Nov 19, 2009 3:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Satan

The best case scenario for a post-Greg Robinson era is the ambivalence of Texas and Denver. Even Pete Carroll thought better of joining forces with him. “Sorry Greg, I’d rather break a mirror over a black cat’s head…”

It took U of M fans about 8 weeks to figure out that having your CBs line up 10 yards behind the first down marker is a below average way to prevent drives. Unfortuntely, many of them are still in the “we don’t have the talent” mode right now. Poor Wolverines…

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.

by Sean Keeley on Nov 19, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate

those two are a natural combination

by Russianator on Nov 19, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

A bottle of bourbon, a truck stop bathroom and a broken condom.

by Otis Hill on Nov 19, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Not that they aren't funny, of course

It’s just bad luck.

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Taken into consideration

but since we have Rutgers and UConn coming up, the two teams who deserve these hastaggings the most, I don’t know if I can shut it down

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.

by Sean Keeley on Nov 19, 2009 3:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I hate 0 and 7

But I tried.

Fantasy Gods… forgive them… they know not what they do…

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

What the fuck?

This sucks.

However, I guess we cant be suprised this is happeneing.
1) Our team has no depth, so guys are taking a lot more reps, getting no breaks and are likely practicing the entrie time.
2) To go from the weakest slowest team in SU history to this in a matter of 6 months has to take a toll on the body. All these guys want to be good again and Im sure are killing themselves in the weight room. Too much too fast. No time for recovery.
3) The style of play is great, but it leads to a lot of injuries. Lets face it, a lot of the players just learned how to properly tackle. Now they are flying around, making hits, playing faster than they ever have at a pace which may not be comfortable for them.
4) The new mentality. This is the biggest one. These guys want so badly to change the program. To become tough. To push themselves very hard. They dont want to seem lazy or weak minded. This may keep them from reporting injuries when they should. Early.

Ugh. Once we get this thing rolling, they guys get used to it, we have some depth and the right athletes for our system, this problem should go away.

by ryanwk628 on Nov 19, 2009 3:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

C'mon.... they have always flown around...

it just the new contact that is wearing them down. It’s hard to tear a mensiscus when you barely get an arm on that guy running by you.

In all seriousness, I do agree with all points though. I think we have to add in playing against teams that have not ingored strength and conditioning. Pitt was just huge. Cincy had a massive OL. Even Louisville was a physical game.

by ezcuse on Nov 19, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs