As he assessed his team Monday during his weekly press conference, head coach Dino Babers traced the rise and growth of already matching last year’s win total with a month to go, from the crazy 76-61 loss to Pittsburgh in last season’s road finale.
It would be fun for Syracuse football to face old Big East rivals Miami and Virginia Tech each season by changing the current ACC football divisional structure.
Bringing his distinctive brand of football to his third head coaching stop in a 29 year overall career, Babers has seen how far this SU team has come in such a short time.
Even the fastest kickoff return players, as evidenced by the speedy Turner in the ’96 Pitt game, have to dodge obstacles on route to running some 100 yards, so it’s hard to do that in 10 seconds or less.