2008 Big East Preview: Syracuse’s next coach

Daryl Gross can’t afford another mistake.

The Greg Robinson story is quite familiar to us in Piscataway. We lived it. For five, long, miserable years, our football program was driven into the ground by a naive outsider. We became the laughing stock of football. Our pathetic, hopelessly inept, completely out of touch coach was widely perceived as a lame duck, and had no luck connecting to sorely-needed recruits in the close-knit, parochial regional football community of the Northeast. Personal connections are everything here, and he had none.

Sound familiar?

Nothing much

I’ll be on the road for much of today, and may or may not be able to resume a normal blog schedule tomorrow. I have two BE preview articles in the can, and I currently plan to finish the rest when I get a chance.

Fresno State has a long way to travel on their way to the game. ESPN’s Graham Watson is looking for a tailgating invitation for the game.

Rutgers University had a record breaking year, topping $121 m in donations. They still have a long way to go if they want to improve perceptions of the school’s academic prestige. Part of that will come from projects like these, where Rutgers and Texas researchers work to cure bird flu.

Ron Girault was waived by the Jets.

Notes on UNC’s depth chart. Full chart.

Navy’s starting QB is recovering from a hamstring opener, and hopes to play in their opener.