Nick Robinson will miss Syracuse’s Aug. 29 opener against Villanova with a sprained foot, SU head coach Scott Shafer said at Saturday morning’s press conference.

The Orange will keep the senior guard in a boot through next week and try to use the bye week to get him healthy in time for SU’s Sept. 13 game at Central Michigan, Shafer said.

“At the beginning of the spring when they came out with all the adjustments to the schedule I was kind of like, ‘Really? One game and a bye?’” Shafer said. “But maybe it’s an opportunity to get some kids back for that Central Michigan game.”

Walking into scholarships

Walk-ons Clay Cleveland, Joe Nassib and Greg Tobias were all awarded scholarships, Shafer said.

Cleveland and Nassib are set to graduate in December, at which point the program will get those scholarships back, Shafer said. Tobias is set to finish school in May, he said. Cleveland and Nassib were awarded scholarships last year, too.

“I’ll never let money sit around when there’s a young man that deserves it,” Shafer said.

Their scholarship awards were first reported by the Post-Standard’s Stephen Bailey on Friday.

2-deep by Tuesday

Shafer also said he wants the Orange’s depth chart solidified two-deep at every position on Tuesday.

“Any time you have a tough decision because you like him and you like him, that’s a good thing,” he said. “We have a lot of those things going on. So it’ll be interesting to see how things kind of shore up these next couple of days.”

Published on August 23, 2014 at 10:28 am

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