Syracuse Football: My spirited pep talk for the Orange hosting Albany
By Chuck Fiello
Our football guru gives his pep talk to the Syracuse football team ahead of the Albany home game.
If Orange Chuck were the head coach of Syracuse football, this is how he would address this team before the Albany game.
Men,
I stand in front of you a humble man! I stand before you as your leader who wishes last week we had done better for you. I stand here right now believing we are a better team than what many are saying about us after that last game and what happened on this very field last week.
Today is a new day though and a new opportunity to show exactly who we are and who we think we can be and take it out on our opponents today. There are people outside these doors who are already condemning you and I to failure and saying that we as a team are failures. They are expecting this team to walk onto that field and stumble our way through this season. I am here to tell you that they are wrong and that I believe we may have stumbled but we will not fail.
I will not take our opponent lightly today but I will tell you this, I want you to go out there and prove who we really are and that one game will not define us. I want you to go out there and prove you are as good as you are.
I want us as a family to run onto that field and make a statement. I want to tell the world this Syracuse football team is special and let’s take out our frustrations on our opponent. I want you to go out there and dominate every play and say to the world that we are the best damn team there is…that we can overcome adversity and win…that we will defend our house and our honor and prove to not only the world but also to ourselves that we are winners.
This is our home and are you really going to let someone else come into our home and win again? Or are you ready to go out there and dominate to prove you are who you are?
LET’S GO ORANGE!!!!