34 OCT. 3, 2016 BLUE & GOLD ILLUSTRATED
BY MATT JONES
I
t was never going to be about the
2016 season for the Syracuse foot-
ball team.
Too many years of futility,
too many coaching changes and an
overall lack of interest in the team's
success has many on the outside
skeptical about the Dino Babers-led
Orange.
And Babers — who was hired
away from Bowling Green this past
December — knows it's a long road
ahead.
"[Babers] just said, 'We're in the
beginning stages here,' " said Nate
Mink, who covers Syracuse football
The first three weeks of the season, sophomore quarterback Eric Dungey averaged 320.0 passing yards and 2.3 touchdown tosses per game in Syracuse's new
high-octane attack.
PHOTO COURTESY SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS
Another New Era
The Orange starts over … again
