You know, I can’t believe the whole week has passed without mentioning once my gratitude to Syracuse once more for the coaching change that coincided with Pitt’s. When Coach Wannstedt was putting together his coaching staff, there were two hires that I felt were unqualified homeruns. Greg Gattuso was one. The Duquesne head football coach was perfect for the local ties, experience and coaching skill.

The other was stealing Dave Walker from Syracuse to be the running backs coach. Walker is a ‘Cuse alum, and had been churning out excellent backs for the Orange for years. The job he has done at Pitt has been just as good. We can talk about Coach Wannstedt’s love of a running game and the talent at the spot, but if you don’t have the right coach teaching and developing them then you are staring at a lot of underachievement at the spot.

Another good thing about the G-Rob error. Clueless recruiting. Despite Dion Lewis hailing from upstate NY and going to a school in New Jersey. And despite not getting any top talent, they still completely missed on Lewis.

Lewis, who enrolled early at Pittsburgh last January, was asked this week if he was recruited by Syracuse. He said no.

Syracuse, facing a tremendous challenge in stopping Lewis is using suspended RB Antwon Bailey as Lewis in practice.

When I was at the Pitt game against USF, I was in the middle of a Tweet update when one of my buddies asked if that was Tony Siragusa somewhere above us. I didn’t get a chance to see, but I guess it probably was. According to Greg Romeus, he did speak to the team as well. They showed him their (tape) ball. They apparently did not ask him when he’s bringing Man Caves to Pittsburgh (or perhaps Cleveland).

Syracuse blog, Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician exchanged Q&A with Eye of a Panther. Good stuff, as usual from both.

After one of the worst weeks for Syracuse Athletics, according to Orange coach Doug Marrone the football team had one of their best practices in quite some time. So they have that going for them.