Buffalo Bills hire Syracuse Orange coach Doug Marrone
New York Daily News
A person familiar with the Buffalo Bills’ coaching search confirms that the team is set to hire Syracuse’s Doug Marrone. Marrone will replace Chan Gailey, who was fired last Monday, a day after the Bills closed their second …[read more]

Marrone Bolts to Buffalo: Why Syracuse Must Promote Scott Shafer Quickly
OrangeFizz
Syracuse begins the process of moving into the post-Doug Marrone Era as the Buffalo News reports he has been hired as the next Bills head coach. It’s surprising Buffalo hired Marrone when it had a slew of higher profile names available such as Lovie Smith, Ken Whisenhunt and…[read more]

Former SU player Rob Konrad endorses Patricia as candidate for Orange head coaching job
Syracuse.com
Former Syracuse University fullback Rob Konrad, the last man to wear the No. 44 jersey for the Orangemen (1995-98), weighed in four years ago when there was a head coach vacancy at his alma mater….[read more]

BASKETBALL

Syracuse gets on the glass, compensates for shaky shooting, to beat South Florida 55-44
Syracuse.com
The idea, of course, was to make the initial shot. But when Syracuse University basketball players failed to do that here with any regularity Sunday afternoon, they countered with the next best thing: They went after the ball on the backboards. The Orange men collected 23 offensive rebounds and used those second
chance points to…[read more]

Syracuse’s Jim Boeheim now knows it’s better to be good than to be liked
Washington Post
By his own admission, it took Jim Boeheim a long time to figure out that his ninth-grade guidance counselor had it right 54 years ago. “Jim,” he said to the eager-to-please teenager, “no matter what you do in life there are always going to be people …[read more]

Even with 903 victories, it’s the 305 losses Syracuse basketball coach Jim …
The Courier-Journal
Sheesh, how best to portray the survivorhood of Jim Boeheim, beyond equipping all GPS devices with an image of his singular face over the Syracuse part? Maybe we could go with the human side, with Boeheim’s 37-season reminder that if you stay around …[read more]