Syracuse Football: Top 3 bittersweet oranges from season opener

2. Eric Dungey Can You Please Slide? – Sincerely, Orange Nation

We live tweet every football game and I’m not sure how many times we tweeted out to stop with the ‘designed quarterback runs’. There’s nothing you can do in terms of Dungey deciding to scramble, but when you put him in additional harm’s way, that’s when we have problems.

Dino Babers said last season that they took out all of the designed quarterback runs before the Clemson game. I guess Babers is a liar or I’m blind, I’ll let you decide. Dungey ended up as the leading rusher for the Orange (more on that later) with nine carries for 51 yards.

More times than not, those carries were either direct quarterback runs or a style of read/zone option. This bittersweet orange concerns me because if Babers was willing to do this against a lowly opponent like Central Connecticut State, imagine what he’d do against a tougher opponent.

While the aforementioned baseball technique is a bit of a rare concept, it’s called SLIDING. I highly recommend that Dungey watches some MLB playoffs this October and takes diligent notes. In two seasons in Orange, Dungey has yet to complete a season. The way this thing has started, he won’t make it through half the season.