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Syracuse, the new Beast in the East!

giddyup said:
You must be proud of your son. That’s really cool snd a heck of an accomplishment. No offense meant. Still I’ll stand by the city of Syracuse is a hopeless dump. The snow bands are really funny up there. 2 feet in once place and 20 miles away a dusting.
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Syracuse has more going on than Hartford, especially with restaurants.
 
AllHusky said:
What is this thread about? Maybe I'm slow, but what prompted it, is Syracuse recruiting great??
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cohenzone said:
Believe me I don’t get upset about Syracuse or the lake effect. t,Does the Syracuse area typically get more snow than most of CT of course. But it ain’t Buffalo. And one of my grandkids goes to U of Buffalo and when I see the national weather says Buffalo is being clobbered, he tells me that was true 10 miles away. Not all the time, but it’s not always like a blanket as the news might lead one to believe and as I imagined until a few years ago. I’ve been on Rt. 17 through the Catskills (love that road) numerous times during the winter when Syracuse has had some snow and pretty often there has been no or little snow on the ground and only noticeable nearer to Cortland on 81.

In any case, SU hoops ain’t what it was but I would rather have their football at the moment, snow or no snow.
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With Lake Erie, Buffalo can get dumped on, but it’s rare, and usually happens only in early Winter or late Fall for some good reasons. This happens when cold winds blowing due west or even slightly SW come onshore into Buffalo. By far the snowiest Lake effect is just to the north, northeast and northwest of Syracuse. All the 1/2 hr, 1 hour, and 12 hour records were set in that area. The UP of Michigan can also get dumped on but it’s not as common due to some geographical and climatological factors. As for SU hoops, I hate to say it but it hasn’t been the same since nose-picker left.
 
Experienced it driving a truck near Watertown. Cold air over unfrozen lake. 5 miles further inland was blue skies.
 
AllHusky said:
What is this thread about? Maybe I'm slow, but what prompted it, is Syracuse recruiting great??
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They hired some corner back coach and good recruiter off of Georgias staff and apparently he is off to a nice start recruiting or portal or what not.
I could see them winning 8-9 games, maybe crack top 25 in the next year or two and then he gets big money from some BIG or SEC school.
 
CONN78SEJ said:
With Lake Erie, Buffalo can get dumped on, but it’s rare, and usually happens only in early Winter or late Fall for some good reasons. This happens when cold winds blowing due west or even slightly SW come onshore into Buffalo. By far the snowiest Lake effect is just to the north, northeast and northwest of Syracuse. All the 1/2 hr, 1 hour, and 12 hour records were set in that area. The UP of Michigan can also get dumped on but it’s not as common due to some geographical and climatological factors.
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Funny you mention that. One of my other sons went to UM. He said he wanted warmer weather but took UM over UVA. He liked UM sports and was a year behind the Fab Five.

My Syracuse son did his Phd and post doc at VTech. If you want a place that doesn’t know how to handle a blizzard, we were visiting him when they got hit by a blizzard that also paralyzed DC. Blacksburg schools are in a county system. By day 2 post storm Blacksburg streets were pretty good. If they were on their own schools could’ve opened. But the county was so bad, schools were closed for 9 days.

We often flew there but that time had driven. On day 2 we headed home. Virginia did a great job with the roads. The normal 20-25 minute drive on I81 through WVA was, on the other hand, like a scene from Frozen. literally 100 yards into the state trucks down embankments, cars sliding over the road everywhere. We had to crawl. Crazy because they should be used to mountain snows. Maybe so poor they had to hire kids with shovels. As soon as we crossed in MD the roads were fine.

Syracuse does know how to handle snow.
 
cohenzone said:
Funny you mention that. One of my other sons went to UM. He said he wanted warmer weather but took UM over UVA. He liked UM sports and was a year behind the Fab Five.

My Syracuse son did his Phd and post doc at VTech. If you want a place that doesn’t know how to handle a blizzard, we were visiting him when they got hit by a blizzard that also paralyzed DC. Blacksburg schools are in a county system. By day 2 post storm Blacksburg streets were pretty good. If they were on their own schools could’ve opened. But the county was so bad, schools were closed for 9 days.

We often flew there but that time had driven. On day 2 we headed home. Virginia did a great job with the roads. The normal 20-25 minute drive on I81 through WVA was, on the other hand, like a scene from Frozen. literally 100 yards into the state trucks down embankments, cars sliding over the road everywhere. We had to crawl. Crazy because they should be used to mountain snows. Maybe so poor they had to hire kids with shovels. As soon as we crossed in MD the roads were fine.

Syracuse does know how to handle snow.
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during my daughter's tour of SU, the tour guide said the school never closes/cancels classes due to snow...EVER. She said the school and city are very very efficient as snow removal.
 
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AllHusky said:
What is this thread about? Maybe I'm slow, but what prompted it, is Syracuse recruiting great??
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Gregory the OP is a Cuse alum, booster, CT resident and tata-twister on here. They are having a good year recruiting. I hypothesize his continued presence because of UConn being the better of Cuse while both were in the Big East for football. Must have been very galling. I'm just a dumb fish for responding to it.
 
John said:
during my daughter's tour of SU, the tour guide said the school never closes/cancels classes due to snow...EVER. She said the school and city are very very efficient as snow removal.
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I'm from fitchburg mass. We were always only out two days for blizzards despite all the hills because every 4th person seemingly had a plow. Leominster, equal size, was always out a week. Bummer to childhood and also a bummer as not every sidewalk was clear
 
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cohenzone said:
Actually depends. My son lives just south of Syracuse and typically gets less than just north. Lake effect is hit or miss it seems. Syracuse is pretty dumpy but there is a bit more to do there than Mansfield including some pretty good bars and restaurants.
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Yeah, I’m in the Syracuse and there has barely been any snow this year and the past few years were kinda light too. CNY is also a great place if you love outdoor activities. I’ve lived in worse places … :oops:
 
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Syracuse got embassed by a team today that we lost to by only 3.

Syracuse has very little going on at a city. Nice campus, love upstate new york but not sure how anyone justifies the extra $$ to go there - we just essentially tied them in college rankings.
 
maple said:
Yeah, I’m in the Syracuse and there has barely been any snow this year and the past few years were kinda light too. CNY is also a great place if you love outdoor activities. I’ve lived in worse places … :oops:
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My son, who is a wildlife biology expert, and family are very outdoorsy. They find lots to do much of the year. Sad to say sports fans, his younger son is a Cuse fan. When in law school i did a 2 week summer stint at their law school. It was before the Dome, it was Archbold Stadium, right next to the law school. You knew its days were numbered because the concrete had major cracks in it.

How different was the city in 1968? Well the woman who would become my wife. gone a year now RIP., and i were dating seriously at the time and we wrote letters to each other pretty often. (handwritten letters boys and girls, remember them?). After she died i remembered she had kept them so a few months later i was up to reading them. The first letter i sent her from the Saltine City complained about what a dump it was. At least it hasn’t deteriorated.
 
Just before the half last night a USF player had a scoop and score off of a Syracuse fumble and he did a somersault into the end zone from the 1 yard line - no penalty. Victor Rosa did the exact same somersault in the NC State game on opening night and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consistency is the main ask from sports officials!
 
UCMB88 said:
Just before the half last night a USF player had a scoop and score off of a Syracuse fumble and he did a somersault into the end zone from the 1 yard line - no penalty. Victor Rosa did the exact same somersault in the NC State game on opening night and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consistency is the main ask from sports officials!
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That can't be true. I was told on this board it gets called for a penalty every single time.
 
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UCMB88 said:
Just before the half last night a USF player had a scoop and score off of a Syracuse fumble and he did a somersault into the end zone from the 1 yard line - no penalty. Victor Rosa did the exact same somersault in the NC State game on opening night and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consistency is the main ask from sports officials!
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There were so many things going on like this during the game, I began to wonder if this bowl game had different celebration rules. Crew was from Sun Belt Conference , I think.
 
UCMB88 said:
Just before the half last night a USF player had a scoop and score off of a Syracuse fumble and he did a somersault into the end zone from the 1 yard line - no penalty. Victor Rosa did the exact same somersault in the NC State game on opening night and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consistency is the main ask from sports officials!
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And that penalty set up NC State with a short field and stole momentum from UConn.
 
UCMB88 said:
Just before the half last night a USF player had a scoop and score off of a Syracuse fumble and he did a somersault into the end zone from the 1 yard line - no penalty. Victor Rosa did the exact same somersault in the NC State game on opening night and got flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Consistency is the main ask from sports officials!
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Same thought went through my head. It was a big call affecting our game. Maybe Rosa jumped higher.
 
cohenzone said:
Same thought went through my head. It was a big call affecting our game. Maybe Rosa jumped higher.
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When Rosa did that flip it never entered my mind that would have been an unsportsman like conduct penalty. And if the officials didn't call it I would not have thought to myself "when UConn got away without a penalty being called" and I bet almost every other fan watching that game had the same mindset whether they were going for UConn or NC State.

I don't know what the rule book says and I don't care, I don't think that call should have been made because I have seen much more celebratory actions in games every week.

Having said all of that, one messed up call didn't ruin UConn football's season this year. They are plenty of things Mora and Co. have to fix.
 
They got a good quarterback but how is the line "not great" and the skill position players are suspect at best. He is not throwing to maybe two first round draft picks at Syracuse for sure.
 
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