Louisville, Ky. -- Dino Babers is going to wait until Sunday to address the senior class and the elephant in the room that lingered here in the aftermath of a 56-10 beatdown against Louisville.
The second-year Syracuse football coach will have to have it try to reconcile years of hard work poured into the program, hours spent in the weight room, practice field and film room will result in an empty feeling of watching this year's bowl slate pass it by.
He will face players like Zaire Franklin, Steve Ishmael, Ervin Philips, Parris Bennett and others, attempt to get them to see the sunny side to a four-year journey that, while filled with some obvious highs, will come to a close six days later in the Carrier Dome against Boston College with its stated goal of playing in the postseason for the first time in their careers off the table.