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Orange Watch: A full Carrier Dome will provide needed home field advantage for Syracuse

October 1, 2013 Brad Bierman

When a capacity crowd in the Dome erupts in unison for the home team, the Teflon supported roof takes over and does its job of keeping that noise confined.

Orange Watch: Goodbye to former Syracuse coach Paul Pasqualoni at Connecticut

October 1, 2013 Brad Bierman

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.

Orange Watch: The human side of Syracuse athletic administrators

September 17, 2013 Brad Bierman

This week there will be no words on games, strategy, fans, players, media coverage, or anything of the like. Instead we focus on the Edson family of Jamesville, N.Y. who lost their dad Rob this past weekend to a suspected heart attack at the very young age of 45.

Orange Watch: After TWO games, some Syracuse football ‘fans’ doubtful?

September 10, 2013 Brad Bierman

Fans are fans, we get that. We used to talk to them on the SU football network postgame radio call-in show before Dick MacPherson got the program back to bowl games for four straight seasons (1987-90) at the end of his tenure, and often times it wasn’t pretty hearing such venom.

Orange Watch: A head-scratching Syracuse basketball ACC schedule

September 3, 2013 Brad Bierman

In a final review, the ACC did Syracuse basketball no great favors in its first-year schedule.

Orange Watch: Dissecting ‘Shafe’ following his Syracuse college coaching debut

September 3, 2013 Brad Bierman

Even following a sour-tasting, six point loss in a game in which his squad had a shot to win, there was a lot to like about Syracuse coach Scott Shafer’s initial postgame reactions, coming from a man who wears his emotions not just on his sleeve, but on his entire body.

Orange Watch: Part II — 2013 Syracuse football pre-season game-by-game prediction

August 26, 2013 Brad Bierman

In Atlanta the following Saturday there will be reminiscing about the basketball team’s Final Four visit to the city seven months earlier, but the immediate concern is to win an ACC game against Georgia Tech and end a two game losing streak.

Orange Watch: Part I — 2013 Syracuse football pre-season game-by-game predictions

August 19, 2013 Brad Bierman

Our annual chronological look at each game on the schedule, and if we think the Orange make it back-to-back bowl seasons for the first time since 1998-99. Part I is Penn State through N.C. State. Part II runs next Monday Aug. 26 and picks up with Georgia Tech through the end of the season.

Orange Watch: Excitement as Syracuse football camp opens

August 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

As the 2013 team filed past that sign and began season preparations for its ACC debut campaign with a media event Sunday and its first practice session scheduled for late afternoon Monday, all eyes are on the author of that statement, the dynamic Scott Shafer.

Orange Watch: Thoughts on Syracuse basketball at midfield in the Dome

August 5, 2013 Brad Bierman

Over the last 20 years or so, whenever we’ve heard the topic of moving the basketball court for one big Syracuse game into the middle of the Dome (usually discussed for a Georgetown game in the old Big East days), we’ve always thought of the landmark 1968 UCLA-Houston game played at the Astrodome.