Brad Bierman, Author at The Juice Online

Orange Watch: From 0-2 to 2-0, what a difference a year makes for Syracuse football

September 16, 2014 Brad Bierman

With a rookie head coach on any level comes on-the-job training, even for a nuance as small as changing communication location from high atop the field as a defensive coordinator, to roaming up and down the sideline as the boss.

Instant Juice: Syracuse 40, Central Michigan 3

September 13, 2014 Brad Bierman

The Orange went to a 2-0 record to begin a season for the first time since 2011 (beat Wake Forest and Rhode Island), and for just the second time since 1999 (when SU also beat CMU), by breaking the game open in the third quarter.

Orange Watch: Syracuse, ACC lead the way with the most NFL head coaches

September 8, 2014 Brad Bierman

Impressively, with the NFL’s 95th season in full swing, no other school or league has produced more of the on-field leaders of the league’s 32 teams than Syracuse and its two year old conference home.

Orange Watch: Syracuse win over Villanova makes case for pre-season matchup

September 2, 2014 Brad Bierman

The scheduling discrepancies across the FBS college football landscape are the one element that at times makes it hard to determine why one team should be ranked higher than another, and is likely to be the cause of much irritation of the Power 5 conference champion(s) that doesn’t make this season’s initial College Football Playoff semi-final on New Year’s Day.

Orange Watch: Part II — 2014 Syracuse football pre-season game-by-game prediction

August 25, 2014 Brad Bierman

Undeterred by the perceived conference snub, SU will come out blazing on an unseasonably warm (48°) and sunny Dec. day, scoring the first three times it has possession for a 13-0 lead. But the Pirates roar back to take a 21-20 lead with the ball at midfield with 3:00 to play.

Orange Watch: Part I — 2014 Syracuse football pre-season game-by-game predictions

August 18, 2014 Brad Bierman

Not even an extra day off for the ‘Cuse before hosting number one Florida State, the first top-ranked team to play in the Dome since a 49-7 loss to Miami in 2002’s season finale, would stop the Seminoles and QB Jameis Winston, the first reigning Heisman Trophy winner to play on the SU campus, from their intended mission to make the Orange victim number six.

Orange Watch: Syracuse football will again make uniform fashion statements

August 6, 2014 Brad Bierman

he point continues to be debated on where in the pecking order should a program’s closet full of uniform combinations help determine a 17-18-19 year old recruit’s choice of where he’ll play college football, but to one Orange player, there’s no doubt about the old adage that “clothes make the man.

Articles by Brad Bierman