It was the football team’s spring game, the public debut of Dino Babers as the head coach and what his uptempo offense would look like in the orange and blue of Syracuse.
It’s a critical year for Shafer to bring upward movement to the program with a new athletic director on the horizon, and that essentially means the minimal goal is a bowl game invitation.
On offense, one the players you have to be most excited about is Jamal Custis. The wide receiver is 6-foot-5 and 232 points, and caught a nice route in man coverage from Terrel Hunt.
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.