Syracuse Football: Milestones, Records & Streaks
by Sean Keeley on Dec 5, 2011 10:01 AM EST
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PrintThe Syracuse Orange football season ended in disappointing fashion. However, quite a few record books were rewritten along the way by SU players.
Well, there's technically only one record book. But that's neither here nor there.
Ryan Nassib has benefited from Syracuse's new-found interest in passing the football. He broke Marvin Graves' single-season passing yard record (2,547), throwing for 2,685 yards. Nassib also finished the season with 22 touchdown passes, which tied Donovan McNabb & Don McPherson for the most in a year. His 259 completions is far and away the most in school history, smashing his own previous record of 202.
He's also now fourth on SU's career passing yardage list with 5,441 yards. If Ryan wants a chance to catch Graves for the all-time record, he's gonna have to kick things up a notch (8,466).
Antwon Bailey leaves the program as the all-time leader in receiving yards by a running back with 706. He also eclipsed the 1,000 rushing yards mark this year, making him the 10th RB in school history to do so.
Nick Provo became SU's all-time leader in receptions by a tight end (92 for 1,027 yards). He also ended his career on a 25-game reception streak.
Sir Alec Lemon caught 68 passes in 2011, which is a school record. If he keeps this up, he'll obliterate the career record of 139 held by by Scott Schwedes & Shelby Hill. Lemon currently has 129.
Chandler Jones ended the season with 147 career tackles, which makes him ninth all-time in tackles by Syracuse down lineman.
Finally, and most oddly, Jeremiah Kobena garnered 1,027 kick return yards on the year, which was the second-best single-season output in school history.
Golf claps to all.
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Good stuff
even if the final record was disappointing, its nice to see these guys really are trying to produce.
I dont think Nassib at QB is the problem given those numbers still, but more the talent around him.
Kobena
Would’ve really liked to have seen him get more reps at WR. Between him, Graham, Lemon and West I think we’ll have a solid group of WRs to build off of next season.
If those guys can work on the drops our receivers could actually be competitive.
We have a couple guys that should be able stretch a defense (Graham and Kobena) while Lemon and West operate underneath between the 20’s and West is the redzone threat at WR to go along with the TE’s. There are a lot of “ifs” in that set up though.
Clear eyes, full bologna sandwiches!
I'd like to see it happen, but
I’m not optimistic they are going to scare any secondary in the conference….
Neither am I.
Everything I wrote should be taken with a “in theory” clause.
Clear eyes, full bologna sandwiches!
Just A Feeling But...
I think Lemon has an even bigger season next year. Him and Nassib seem to be more on the same page than anyone else. Many hate the short routes but sometimes you have to go with what you have and if Lemon gets up 5 yards up field, hit him and hope he fights for more. He has improved every season he has been here so I look for it to develop further and doubt he drops any TD passes next season that should be catches.
"I'm in a Syracuse State Of Mind"
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Plus, I don't see
anyone filling Provo’s catches right away, at least not all of them, so more are going to be available
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I think we might be suprised
by Wales/Stevens – and we have the new stud coming in from Detroit who was a TE 4-star.
We are pretty well stocked with TEs for now.
But yeah, someone has to make up for that short route.
Sadly I Agree With Sean
I haven’t seen enough from Wales/Stevens to be impressed yet but there is plenty of time to convince me. 2 years ago, Lemon was better know for the catches he dropped than the ones he made. This year, he did drop a couple key ones but more times than not, he was the go to guy and extented the plays. I am not sure what happened with the Nassib/Chew deep ball threat potential but sadly, after the first couple games, it lost steam. To me, from what I have seen, Lemon would be the answer right now but not ruling out either TE or any of the young guys possible stepping up next year, it just looks to me like Nassib is comfortable finding Lemon and trust him to run the route.
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I think they'll do well
but they won’t match Provo, least not for a year
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For what it's worth...
If Lemon has a bigger year next season, in the range of 85 – 1203 – 11, he sets or ties every major career receiving mark at SU.
He’ll have the receptions record with 11 more. 1203 edges Harrison by one (2,729), 11 TDs ties him with Moore at 22.
Not as much a stretch as it might appear – 1 more catch per game than this season, 23 more yards a game. It’ll be interesting how they use him next season…
What do you guys think about Reddish?
I know HCDM worked him as a DB this season, but do you think he’ll be making the move back to WR for next season?
Just like Crazy Otto...
Not to be a d*#$, but ...
I would have thought Greg Robinson’s teams would lead the record books for kickoff yardage by individual players.
Give up 40 points per game and you get to return 6 or 7 kickoffs per game. Seven kickoffs in 12 games is 84 kickoff returns a season. If they just averaged 15 yards per return, they would crush Kobena’s numbers.
Alas, I’m sure even the kick returners sucked back then too though.
http://cusepulp.blogspot.com/
The record holder: Max Suter, 2007
“1,299 kick return yards on 51 attempts. His 25.5 yards per return ranked second in the BIG EAST and 35th nationally.”
http://www.cnycentral.com/sports/story.aspx?id=82549#.Tt0DpONWp4E
Nice numbers...
…but nothing will change until the offensive line gets better. The offensive line was pretty disappointing this season.
"(BARF)" - Donovan McNabb, during his game winning drive against Virginia Tech in 1998
RESTORE 44!
Very true
We’re looking at a new right side next year. From what I recall, it seems like everyone was pretty high on Sean Hickey at tackle. Hopefully he’ll be an upgrade from Hay. At the very least, let’s hope he doesn’t commit a drive-killing personal foul every game.
Still not sold on Mackey in the middle. That’s a spot I’d love to see some serious competition at.
by SpotOnSpotwood on Dec 5, 2011 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
I'm not too excited about the left side, either...
I watched Chibane (left guard on a pass play against Pitt)… there was no down line man in front of him (“just” a linebacker)… the nose tackle was on Mackeys’ right shoulder. At the snap of the ball, the NT was double-teamed by the right guard and center, the left tackle took his guy to the outside. Inexplicably, Chibane goes forward and to the right (to help Mackey?), which opens a giant hole, and the LB runs unabated to the QB and sacks Nassib. Now, the first thing any lineman is taught that, on a pass play, you take a step back and put your head on a swivel and engage the first guy you see… this guy broke every basic rule of pass-blocking… and, it cost the team dearly. I’m sure he was taught better than that… what could he have been possibly thinking?? This is only one example… they all make similar stupid, undisciplined, mistakes and this team can not afford ANY of them.
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