44WeWantMore wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:58 am
jhu06 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:51 am
DMac wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:27 am
Good idea to move on, you got in over your head in the last discussion not knowing w*t*f you were talking about while trying to downplay Mullen's performance. Nobody came on here crowing about anything, I simply came on and pointed out that Callahan has faced more than two legit (in your opinion) FOGOs, nothing more than that. You then had to tell us all that 4 of 6 is nothing to crow about having no idea what Mullen has done for the year. Hint, he's taken more than the 6 face offs you've seen him take and proven to be "legit".
On to Navy.
The Syracuse record in the Gait era hasn't matched the hype from the program, their fans and their fanboys in the media. Needing to beat Hopkins for the first time in years midway through year 3 just to have a shot at May was probably not where the program expected to be nor was having players having to cut off Gait in press conferences to defend underachievement from Spallina. The PM Hopkins rebuild is ahead of the Gait rebuild and Gait doesn't have a President who already nuked one Hopkins season (and thinks alumni are bygones from another era) and an AD who in her own words doesn't give the program carte blanche, not to mention admissions to deal with.
Coming off a loss with a roster full of guys who remember 2022 I'm expecting a beatdown of Navy. It's probably Degnons last game against them and I hope they talk about his Brendan Looney connection a lot this week. Seems like a special guy.
Yes, there was somebody on the Syracuse thread saying 9-0 was realistic before the real competition of the ACC, but first, that post was more criticized than endorsed, and second, we too have endured disappointment following hype from our own posters.
It was me who said it, and to be fair to me
, Cuse is only two OT's (2 goals, man, c'mon!) from being 8-0. So, my claim wasn't as crazy as it sounded.
The Delaware game will be far more instructive than the Hopkins game so far as how Syracuse goes the rest of the season. I previously claimed the Hopkins game meant far more to Cuse than to Hopkins...I still think that showed up in won GB's, FO's, and such. This game is Delaware's last opportunity of the season to show any OOC ability, having already lost to their two other tough OOC opponents (Penn by 1, Michigan by 5). The Hens need this game badly, Cuse less so.
Unless Delaware found their permanent FOGO last week (and they may have; OJ Morris went 81% at the dot...frankly he's more effective than Premtaj), this will be a tough out for the Hens (if Kohn/Mullen go 60%+).
Still weird to me that Cuse will not have played one away game for 9 games to start a season (this game is in Chantilly VA, which I'd normally like to attend but I am headed to College Park to see UVA play Maryland). Just amazing. Is any other D1 team in the same boat, not having played an away game to start a season 9 games?