Syracuse Football: Top 5 bittersweet oranges from loss to NC State
Here's how it all happened #CUSEvsNCST: record breaking day for Erv Philips (@Ambition1_)
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5. Where’s the running game tho?
It appears even more obvious now that the 300 yard rushing performance from a few weeks ago
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was nothing more than a blip on the radar. That makes it back-to-back weeks for the Orange that they’ve failed to go over 100 yards on the ground.
After a one week vacation, Eric Dungey returns as the leading rusher for the Syracuse Orange. He finished with 44 yards on 16 carries with an atrocious 2.8 yards per clip. The next leading rusher on the list? Chris Elmore.
Lets just address the elephant in the room. The Orange are a one-dimensional offense. They can’t get anything going on the ground which forces Dungey to drop back 47 times. Is that the recipe for success? Perhaps with the way SU has been running the football, we may be forced to realize that’s the only way Cuse can win games.
I know NC State was extremely good against the run and so is LSU, but you’ve got to be able to do something, anything! The Elmore package, despite the marginal stats, did work in spurts. But SU kept going to it in odd situations: second and long, third and medium, it just didn’t make sense.