Syracuse Football: Top 5 bittersweet oranges from loss to MTSU

5. What The Fake?

WTF? What the fake?

Complete and utter nonsense. Now don’t get me wrong the Orange didn’t lose the game because of this BUT it was something that affected the game. Orange is the New Fast and everyone knows it because when we talked with play-by-play man Chip Walters he mentioned it. Plus everyone just knows Babers MO.

So the Blue Raiders dropped like flies when the Orange were moving too fast? Convenient. But the worst one came at the end of the game when the Orange were about to snap the ball and clearly the Blue Raiders would’ve been called for 12 men on the field and one of their corners drops like he got shot. Convenient again.

Yet the referees did nothing. Although miraculously he rose from the dead mere minutes later and looked just fine. I couldn’t have been screaming at the WatchESPN app more than I was. It’s impossible to tell when players are faking or when they’re really injured, but sometimes are just so obvious you have to do something about it. People can call it ‘gamesmanship’ but I call it bullshit.