Following the Syracuse Orange’s second straight loss to a ranked team to start this season, I couldn’t help but feel hopeless about the current predicament.
Just 14 games ago, Syracuse was ranked 15th in the country after winning the Camping World Bowl. The offense was humming, recruiting looked like it was picking up, and we’d seemingly pulled off a coup in hiring Dino Babers when we did. Having Eric Dungey’s “heir apparent” at quarterback — Tommy DeVito — seemingly assured that the good times would continue to roll.
How much we all quickly forgot that this is Syracuse football, and keeping Syracuse football competitive in the sport’s current landscape is challenging.