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.
My guess is that Drew Allen gets the start again next week. There’s a reason Scott Shafer chose him as the starter in week one and two and I don’t think he’ll lose hope quite yet.
Saturday evening in suburban Chicago, Syracuse simply could not stop #19 Northwestern, giving up 581 yards en route to a 48-27 loss that was not as close as that score implies.
Syracuse fans should remember Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter well. In Northwestern’s 42-41 win over the Orange last year, Colter threw for 135 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
After suffering a disappointing season-opening loss to the Penn State Nittany Lions, 23-17, Syracuse seeks its first win of the year against an explosive Wildcats team. The Wildcats downed the Orange in a 42-41 shootout last season at the Carrier Dome.
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.
The football team is not the basketball team and MetLife Stadium is not Madison Square Garden. I understand tradition is built over time but the Syracuse football program is not in any position to be playing one of its home games away from the Dome.
Is Drew Allen the guy? Will he lead the Orange under center this season? He didn’t give us the performance many fans hoped for. He had some good moments but he also had some awful ones, including two second-half interceptions.
As should have been expected, Scott Shafer’s defense was well ahead of his team’s offense, allowing Syracuse to stay close, but ultimately lose their season opener to Penn State in East Rutherford, NJ, 23-17.