The Buffalo Bills and Doug Marrone bypassed former Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib in favor of Florida State quarterback EJ Manuel with the 16th pick in the NFL draft.
Pugh was a 2011 and 2012 All-Big East First team selection, despite missing the first four games of the 2012 season with an injury. He started every game in his three-year career, and blocked for three separate 1,000-yard rushers.
Scott Shafer joined his 13 ACC counterparts on a media call Thursday to wrap up spring ball and gaze into the future of their programs, personnel, and with some coaches the upcoming College Football Playoff starting after next season.
Like Doug Marrone versus Minnesota in 2009, Shafer will have a chance to watch a likely quarterback battle for the starting job before opening up in his first game also against a Big Ten opponent.
It didn’t take long to identify the focus of the Syracuse offense in Saturday’s annual Spring Football game as the Orange squad defeated the Blue squad by a large margin. It’s all about the running game.
Like so many others in Syracuse history, Jim Nance was good in more sports than just one. In 1963 and 1965, Nance was the NCAA heavyweight-wrestling champion and an All-American.
Coming off the spring game Saturday and heading into summer workouts and August camp, we’ll begin to find out if Syracuse is good enough in Scott Shafer’s maiden season running the show to lasso one of the eight secured conference bowl tie-ins for 2013.