Sloppy Syracuse lucky to get away with win
In many ways, Syracuse's 42-30 win over Connecticut on Saturday just didn't make sense.After all, it's hard to play a game as sloppy as Syracuse… Read more »
Writer archives: Michael Licker
UConn, pocket passer visit SU
This season, the Syracuse football team's defense has faced - and been ripped apart by - a multitude of different offensive looks.From the pro-style offense… Read more »
Reyes recovers from sickness
It looks like the Syracuse football team will have the other half of its running back duo back when the Orange takes on Connecticut on… Read more »
Special teams fiasco
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. - Collin Barber stood in the Syracuse interview room and answered all the questions. But he didn't even need to speak.His face… Read more »
Orange falls to Mountaineers, 27-6
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Syracuse only wanted a chance - a chance to beat a Top 25 team and show the nation Syracuse football is back.Three… Read more »
Orange falls to Mountaineers, 27-6
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Syracuse only wanted a chance - a chance to beat a Top 25 team and show the nation Syracuse football is back.Three… Read more »
Win may land SU a BCS berth
All week, they've denied it. The members of the Syracuse football team have tried to convince everyone that tonight's game against West Virginia isn't the… Read more »
SU earns B for midseason grade
Let's face it. After Purdue thrashed the Syracuse football team, 51-0, in its Sept. 5 season opener, virtually no one outside the Orange locker room… Read more »
Poor clock management on final drive hurts Orange's upset chances
The most tangible sign of Syracuse's failed upset bid against Florida State on Saturday was Perry Patterson's interception in the end zone to end the… Read more »
G-Train
It had been a while since Syracuse football fullback Greg Hanoian last saw the end zone. On Saturday, in SU's 41-31 win over Rutgers, Hanoian… Read more »
Patterson's last 2 drives avenge early struggles against Rutgers
As Perry Patterson stood at the podium answering questions during Syracuse's postgame press conference, a voice suddenly popped up from the back of the room.'Yeah,… Read more »
Sloppy secondary play nearly costs SU
As the Syracuse football team's defense took the field with 3:49 to play in its game with Rutgers on Saturday, the picture looked bleak at… Read more »
Pasqualoni refuses to name Patterson starter
Although Perry Patterson appeared to finally put an end to the Syracuse football team's two-man quarterback battle with his play on Saturday, SU head coach… Read more »
Rhodes breaks out
It hurt so much, Damien Rhodes sat alone and cried.Growing up in Syracuse, he had attended most SU football home games since he was 8… Read more »
Little things add up for SU
Perhaps Syracuse head football coach Paul Pasqualoni offered the best assessment of the Orange's offensive woes. 'You can't shoot yourself in the foot and expect… Read more »
Quarterbacks, WRs take blame for offensive woes
As the Syracuse football team's offense reflected on its performance in Saturday's 37-17 win over Buffalo, it seemed everyone wanted to take the blame for… Read more »
Rhodes needs to be on field
BUFFALO - All preseason, we heard constantly about Walter Reyes. He was supposed to carry the Syracuse football team. If SU had any hopes of… Read more »
Special teams saves sloppy SU
BUFFALO - All spring, Syracuse's new special teams coordinator Chris Rippon hammered home the importance of special teams play. He couldn't reiterate enough how much… Read more »
Big plays ruining defense
All week, the Syracuse football team's defense has answered the same questions over and over again.'Why didn't you record any sacks, and why did you… Read more »
Then & Now
Over and over again we've heard Walter Reyes say the same thing. He said it when he was first named a Heisman Trophy candidate in… Read more »
Improved recruiting, better facilities catapult Pittsburgh
As Rob Petitti prepared to make his final decision of which college to attend, he thought about Pittsburgh's great past football teams. 'What happened to… Read more »
Basketball title helped build winning football program
Prior to the 2001 season, Ralph Friedgen took over as the Maryland football team's head coach. A Maryland graduate himself, he hoped to restore the… Read more »
Stoops sparks OU's revival
Six years ago, Oklahoma Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione arrived in Norman, Okla., to find a football program on the downswing. A program that had… Read more »
