Rough Weekend for SU Sports

I don't have a problem with SU's basketball loss to Florida. Sometimes you lose, it happens. Florida got hot from the outside, and Boeheim switched to man and it worked. Can't blame him. I dont even blame McNamara although he is a horrible shooter, 5-19 overall, 3-11 from three point land. He had 10 assists and only one turnover, which is what a point guard is supposed to do. All that said, he did screw up at a critical juncture of the game. With nearly 9 minutes to go SU had a 60-58 lead and according to Dickey V "all the momentum baby." I don't really believe in old Uncle Mo, but G-Mac chucked up a horrible 3, it airballed and SU scored 2 points over the next 7 minutes.

I think SU will lose to Bucknell tonight. And I think I will be able to blame G-mac for that loss.

As for the football team, I realize they had zero chance to beat Notre Dame, and no matter what happened they probably would have gotten killed. But Robinson did a horrible job and really sent a message to his team that he doesn't trust them. At the beginning of the second quarter SU had the ball at their own 13 yard line with a 3-0 lead. Two runs and an incomplete pass. Punt. Notre Dame got the ball at their own 47 and went 3 and out. SU had the ball at their 16. Three running plays later SU punted again. He didn't try a pass. And these were vanilla runs up the middle out of a one-wide receiver set. Try a draw play on 3rd and 13. What about a screen pass? An end around? Something. Why bother playing if you are not even going to try. The ensuing punt was 20 yards giving Notre Dame the ball at the SU 36, the same place roughly as if Perry Patterson had been intercepted. Quinn threw a touchdown pass to Stovall and the rout was on. But Robinson should be ashmed at himself for not even letting the team try to beat Notre Dame.