39-14, Storz.Before I offer up some incoherent observations from an idiot dumb enough to trek up to the Dome for last night's debacle, let me first serve you up some real news and commentaries:
UConn Beats Up SU (Syracuse.com)
Axe is once again Sorting Through the Rubble
Dave Rahme
Donnie Webb
Hookah-mania is runnin' wild brother!
The Daryl Gross Propoganda Machine
An Idiot's observations:
- in four years of "ugliness" this game ranks right up there, we're talking "it's 2AM and I wouldn't even talk to her at last call in a bar after several shots of tequila ugly."
- T3I's Adopted Orangeman Chaz Cervino vaults back into the Heisman Race with a big 3rd down grab
- To all the members of the "Mitch Browning Is Doing a Great Job Club" let me know when your next meeting is, I would love to drink some of your Kool-Aid
- Great use (insert sarcasm here) of Cody Catalina
- UConn fans, they're so precious...from my section they fell into one of two categories: 1) older fans wearing every single piece of Husky merchandise they own, or 2) younger fans wearing bad Red Sox camo hats (true story) ...either ones were as annoying as you'd expect coming from Storz
- A further related UConn fan observation....when you come to the game late and are coming down the aisle to find your seats, WAIT UNTIL THERE IS A STOP IN PLAY. Even though it's a bad brand of football, I'd rather see what's happening on the field than see you fumble to find your tickets and try to figure out which side of the aisle to enter. Football etiquette people.
- Did you know Pat Shadle is an Exercise Science major?
- The UConn band was bigger, louder and more involved than the Cuse in our own house. I'll take emasculation for $100 please Alex.
- Max Suter was everywhere
- I'm pretty sure I'd rather watch a Lifetime Made for TV Movie over tape of the 3rd quarter of this game
- Dome ice cream chipwich....hi old friend, it was nice to see you again.
What People Are Saying:
"We're not functioning, obviously." ~ Greg Robinson
"It sucks." ~ Bruce Williams
"It's been rough these four years that I've been here." ~Curtis Brinkley
"It wasn't our type of game." ~ Nick Santiago
"Can we play Syracuse every week?" ~ Randy Edsall*
* 100% made up
4 comments:
A Dome Chipwich? Wonder if that is a seasonal product that our fine Syracuse Culinary team sources out during peak buying opportunities?
Congrats on Chaz, it's going to be a close one at years end with Chew and Chaz.
Danny
TheSportHump.com
As a SU Marching Band alum at the game, let me put in my two cents:
When and how often each respective band plays is mostly based on the momentum of the game. You probably felt like you heard UConn's band more during the course of the game because UConn was, well, scoring and racking up first downs regularly. No coincidence.
The Dome also has strict rules about when the band can and cannot play; everything's timed to the second because of all the advertising. Visiting bands, obviously, couldn't care less about this, but the SU band has to follow the rules.
I've been to MANY games at Michigan Stadium (and one at Notre Dame Stadium) where there are strict NO ADVERTISING policies. Not surprisingly, their bands get to play much more often and be a much bigger part of the game -- they don't need to wait for Kiss Cams and Sub Races to end to start playing. So if you have a problem there, take it up with Dome management and the AD, not with a hundred and change college kids voluntarily giving up their Saturday night to cheer on that crapfest we saw yesterday.
Plus, as just about anyone could pretty clearly see, UConn's band was about twice the size of Cuse's. Connecticut is a huge university; they're drawing from twice as many kids. The SUMB sounds as good as it ever has, I think, including the time I was in it. It's just unreasonable to expect 175 kids to match the sound of over 300.
Girardi,
I have no issues with the kids in the band as I have no issues with the players on the field.
The stupid advertising, commercials and piped in music can go.
Thanks for posting.
Champ,
Yeah, as a fellow band alumnus I know you wern't directing anything at the kids. The UConn band has a ton more people just beacuse it's a bigger, state school so with that more snotty Connecticut High Schoolers play in the band in college. Either way, our long collectice nightmare is over so I imagine Syracuse will get more freshmen looking to join up next season as hope will spring even more than usual next season.
Keep up the good work Champ, and you are totally right about dudes going down the asile during action on the field.
BH
Orange::44
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