Four-star defensive prospect Ebenezer Ogundeko will have orange in his college football uniform. It’s just a matter of which shade of orange he will wear.
While Rick Pitino, John Calipari and Jerry Tarkanian made brief forays into the NBA over the past two decades, the son of a central New York funeral home owner remained loyal to the Syracuse program and community.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim became sentimental about the latest round of realignment news affecting the Big East following SU’s 85-61 win over Canisius on Saturday night.
Seven Catholic basketball schools—St. John’s, Georgetown, DePaul, Marquette, Seton Hall, Providence and Villanova—announced they were splitting from the Big East to form a basketball-centric conference.
Sources tell Onion Juice that the Big East will invite Oswego High School, TCU (also known as Texas Canine University) for football only and the Fashion Institute of America for all sports in upcoming days.
It’s not the approach we’d endorse for anyone other than PFW, but it provides an interesting alternative perspective — one in which Syracuse’s Ryan Nassib, the second-team quarterback in All-Big East voting, is a first-team All-American.
This morning, sources within the Big East basketball contingent told ESPN that the Catholic basketball schools may break off into their own league, dissolving the conference they once built.