Battle For The Bottom: Syracuse Game-Week Links

by CardsFan922 on Nov 13, 2009 1:54 PM EST Comment 18 comments

So, like it or not, there's a game tomorrow. The short-term implications of this game are clear. The loser will almost certainly finish last in the Big East this season, and the winner will likely celebrate this game as their only conference win. I'm actually at the point where I don't want anyone to talk about this game on blogs, TV, sports talk radio, Twitter, and especially College Gameday because it would inevitably be in a way that mocks us. Mercilessly. The only safe place is printed newspapers, since no one reads those anymore anyway.

No idea who is starting at QB or whether Vic will play or not. Anyone who has any good info feel free to post in the comments below.

Sept. 22, 2007...Worst...Birthday...Ever....I also got a sunburn that day.

Here are some links to the online versions with predictable storylines:

CJ: Louisville football team can pay back Syracuse

Good article about how the players want to win out and go to a bowl, that's what they are playing for, etc. I think I speak for everyone when I say I would still love to see that happen, coaching rumors aside. But the article has a good reminder of What It All Means and What It Has All Been About these last few years:

Syracuse (3-5, 0-4 Big East) has lost 17 consecutive games against league opponents not named Louisville. The Cardinals (3-5, 0-4) will try to avoid being the first Big East team to lose three straight to the Orange since Rutgers did so from 2000 to '02.

Syracuse.com: Cardinals know just how Orange feels

"Syracuse is a team that’s very, very similar to us," Louisville Steve Kragthorpe said. "They’re very beat up right now, playing a lot of young guys."

Apparently Syracuse.com's editors won't even refer to him as "Coach" anymore. Do they know something we don't? Maybe I'll direct message @KennyKlein on Twitter and see how many of the 140 characters are spent defending Krag and how many are reserved for calling me an idiot.

Syracuse.com: Anatomy of how 2-2 became 3-6 for Syracuse University football team

A great article, but the short version for those who have to work this afternoon or can't read anything that isn't in list form: Turnovers, allowing big plays, injuries to key guys. Sounds familiar....

Bozich: Louisville football vs. Syracuse may actually be competitive

For those who care what Rick Bozich thinks.

So if you can read this and are close to the stadium (and posts about Syracuse-Louisville football don't generally make it far enough through the intertubes to get read by computers that far from PJCS), come on out and support the team, keep the dream of a bowl alive for everyone on the team who has never been to or played in a bowl (which would be everyone but the seniors and RS Seniors), and enjoy the weather.

First CardChron reader to confront me or Mike IRL at this game and tell us their CardChron online name gets a 2009 International Bowl Shirt if the Cards end up making it to the International Bowl.

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I love "Battle for the Bottom"

So simple yet so well-stated and pleasant to say.

by Mike Rutherford on Nov 13, 2009 1:57 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bam

Love it

by Mike Rutherford on Nov 13, 2009 3:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I'd buy it

by UL is my hot hot sex on Nov 13, 2009 5:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't care.

And that’s what makes me saddest of all. Don’t care. Beat Syracuse? Sure, okay, have at it. Lose to Syracuse? No surprise there. Don’t care. We’ve fallen so far the only thing to look forward to is a new face and some small cause for optimism.

Can we at least can this guy early?

theoldman

by theoldman on Nov 13, 2009 3:55 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Anyone? Anyone?

Does anyone else share the feeling with me that they would prefer the game be a blow-out loss to a close game (either way) just so that I don’t feel compelled to stay for all 3 ½ hours of the game? I mean, I would prefer a win to a loss, but going to the game now feels like a social obligation akin to going to a distant relative’s wedding: "Oh, they aren’t going to have a full mass, are they?" "When are they going to cut the cake so we can ramble?" "Do you think they’ll notice if we leave now?"

by 83fan on Nov 13, 2009 3:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Literally LOL

That’s exactly how I feel. This season is like a Sunday sermon that has gone too long with no real point. You’re obligated to pay attention, but you’re really just dreaming about what you’ll order at brunch after church is done. We’re still talking about football, right?

DocCardsFan
The 'Ville, KY

by DocCardsFan on Nov 13, 2009 5:07 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Perfect.

And yes, most of my time in my seat is spent thinking about when to go buy a brat and beer.

by 83fan on Nov 13, 2009 10:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

"They’re very beat up right now, playing a lot of young guys."

That MAY be true of Syracuse, but how on Earth can that be said of Louisville. We don’t even HAVE young guys on the roster. Seriously, look it up. Our 2-deep is littered with juniors and seniors. We have 2 O-linemen on the two-deep who are NOT upperclassmen and both are centers. Greg Scruggs is the only underclassman on the D-line (by underclassman I mean freshman/sophomore, not non-senior).

Sure, the skill positions have some young guys (Stein, Ashley, Vic). But using the QB and RB spots to make a statement about the ENTIRE roster? C’mon, Krag…

by CardinalEmpire.com on Nov 13, 2009 4:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

The Sporting News

Here is part of an article from today’d Feeling The Heat article:

“Two jobs already are open…more are on the way.

It starts this weekend in Louisville, where the Cardinals play host to Syracuse in what can only be described as win or clean out office on Monday for Coach Steve Kragthorpe.

It’s bad enough that Kragthorpe’s teams have underachieved in his three seasons; it’s worse that his era has taken a program that had joined the nation’s elite and left it fighting with Syracuse to stay our of the Big East cellar."

There’s more but the above is certainly enough.

Krap, now I am going to be pulling for us with mixed emotions.

by cbcard on Nov 13, 2009 5:18 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I guess we can add the Sporting News to the list of people who don’t know how great a coach Steve Kragthorpe is. Do you think Tom Jurich will try and get that author fired?

by Whacker77 on Nov 13, 2009 7:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

No bowl this year

Krag’s 1st team finished 6-6 which included a win over a top 25 program, no bowl.

I don’t see it happening if they manage to hit 6-6 over the teams they’ve beaten (and will have beaten). Besides, we always get our tails handed to us in South Florida. I don’t expect this year to be any different.

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by LORD KAYOSS on Nov 13, 2009 11:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs