Brad Bierman, Author at The Juice Online

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim gets frustrated

Orange Watch: Hard to imagine Syracuse basketball without Jim Boeheim, isn’t it?

June 23, 2014 Brad Bierman

Yes, we can attest there’s been one season, three full games, and two partial games (one an exhibition) that Jim Boeheim has not been directing game strategy courtside as SU head coach on our ‘Watch’ dating back to the fall of 1975.

Orange Watch: 40 years of covering Syracuse athletics comes full circle

June 9, 2014 Brad Bierman

One thought we can guarantee you; that a Syracuse-Villanova football game played in deteriorating Archbold Stadium some 40 years ago would be broadcast live on TV anywhere would have been considered preposterous in the days of a scant few weekly ABC regional and national game of the week telecasts

NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Instant Juice: Syracuse 12, Maryland 15

May 25, 2014 Brad Bierman

A quick take on Syracuse’s stinging 15-12 loss to Maryland in the NCAA Women’s Lacrosse championship game played Sunday evening

Orange Watch: Syracuse football doesn’t benefit from an eight game ACC schedule

May 19, 2014 Brad Bierman

The confirmation by Orange AD Daryl Gross last week that all options are on the scheduling table, including contracting fellow league members as non conference opponents makes sense to solve that built in quirk, especially for the Syracuse scheduling philosophy.

Orange Watch: A sudden, shocking end to the Syracuse lacrosse season

May 12, 2014 Brad Bierman

A tough-to-penetrate zone defense employed by upstart Bryant Sunday night led to the No. 2 seed Orange’s 10-9 demise in the NCAA Tournament first round, its earliest home playoff exit since 2010.

Orange Watch: The case for Syracuse football playing more conference games

May 5, 2014 Brad Bierman

The annual ACC spring meetings take place next week in Florida, and with the College Football Playoff era getting underway this fall, what’s the right scheduling formula to ensure the league’s champion has a path to the national championship game?

Orange Watch: Syracuse may have lost, but the ACC was the big winner following its lacrosse tournament weekend

April 28, 2014 Brad Bierman

With that statement to begin his postgame remarks to the media Sunday afternoon, Syracuse lacrosse coach John Desko summed up perfectly, and put a light spin on, his team’s thwarted comeback in the final minute of regulation play ending with a 15-14 loss to Notre Dame in the ACC championship game at PPL Park just down I-95 from Philadelphia.

Instant Juice: Syracuse 14, Notre Dame 15

April 27, 2014 Brad Bierman

Notre Dame broke open a close back and forth game that was tied 7-7 at halftime and 8-8 at the 12:17 mark of the 3rd quarter by scoring the next five goals to lead 14-9 entering the final quarter

Instant Juice: Syracuse 16, Duke 15

April 25, 2014 Brad Bierman

A quick take on Syracuse’s thrilling, buzzer-beating 16-15 defeat of Duke in the ACC Tournament semifinals on Friday evening at picturesque but rainy and windy PPL Park, along the Delaware River south of Philadelphia.

Orange Watch: An orange-flavored take on the new Syracuse football uniforms

April 21, 2014 Brad Bierman

That orange helmet meant Syracuse football. Not a blue one, and certainly not a white helmet, as Maloney found out in a hailstorm of criticism in 1974 as he wanted to separate himself from the previous quarter century of SU football under Coach Ben. By Maloney’s fourth season (of seven years as head coach) the helmet was back to orange.