Articles by Brad Bierman
Orange Watch: Dissecting “Shafe” Part 2: “Welcome to the ACC”
The not-so-funny aspect about Shafer’s initial reaction to Clemson’s strategy is that Swinney was well within his rights to try and take a 42-7 lead into the locker room even with 30 minutes left to play. Stranger occurrences have happened in college football comebacks and if nothing else, the sooner an insurmountable lead was intact with less game clock, the sooner Swinney could start liberally substituting in his second-stringers as he eyes bigger games down the road.
Orange Watch: Goodbye to former Syracuse coach Paul Pasqualoni at Connecticut
When we read the opening two paragraphs of Hartford Courant columnist Jeff Jacobs’s Sunday morning story following Connecticut’s dreadful 41-12 loss at Buffalo the day before to drop to 0-4, we couldn’t help but think the picture that Jacobs was describing was one we had seen before with our own eyes.