By Tim Schlittner Allow me to start by acknowledging a few facts: 1) The 2011 season was a disappointment. 2) Finishing in last place in football in the Big East is never acceptable. 3) The final five games ranged from sloppy to disastrous. 4) Doug Marrone is responsible for the performance of his team. No [...]
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An Opportune Time To Get Over The Louisville Hump
October 27th, 2011 
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1 Comment By Tim Schlittner Doug Marrone has done just about everything in his two and a half years as Syracuse’s head football coach. He has brought the program back to respectability. He has stabilized the recruiting operation. He returned the Orange to the postseason and won a bowl game in just his second season. And last [...]
Ryan Nassib Takes Game To A New Level
September 27th, 2011 Tim Schlittner No Comments By Tim Schlittner Syracuse’s 33-30 overtime win over Toledo will be remembered for the extra point that was but shouldn’t have been. But I will remember it for something else. It was late in the first quarter when freshman center Macky MacPherson had an errant snap which led to a turnover. Quarterback Ryan Nassib barked [...]
10 Things I Learned From Syracuse vs. Wake Forest
September 2nd, 2011 Tim Schlittner 6 Comments By Tim Schlittner (1) Syracuse football fans are fair-weather or worse. The Orange were coming off an eight-win season that included a Pinstripe Bowl victory. It was the home opener against a BCS opponent. There hasn’t been this much optimism around the program in years. And only 40,833 people show up. Pathetic. I don’t want [...]
Nat Hackett’s Time To Shine
August 31st, 2011 Tim Schlittner 2 Comments By Tim Schlittner Since the Doug Marrone era began in 2009, defense has far and away been the more stable side of the ball. This is not a surprise. Defense has had better players (from Arthur Jones to Doug Hogue) and an excellent coordinator in Scott Shafer. Marrone gave Shafer full autonomy over the unit [...]
Football Friday: Thursday Edition – Season Predictions
August 25th, 2011 Tim Schlittner 3 Comments By Tim Schlittner Continuing with the Football Friday series, this week will feature season predictions by each of our writers, running Monday through Friday. — I love this time of year. Tom Sullivan, Dave Cooperman, and I used to e-mail each other our season predictions and now we get to do it on a blog. Pretty cool. [...]
Football Friday: Schedule Analysis
August 19th, 2011 Tim Schlittner 6 Comments By Tim Schlittner Believe it or not, we are a mere 13 days away from the start of Syracuse’s college football season. Next week everyone here at Otto’s Army will give you their game by game predictions. For the record, I accurately predicted a 7-5 record for the Orange last season in the face of [...]
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Tags: Football Friday, Syracuse, syracuse season prediction 6 Comments »Football Friday: Defensive Line
July 15th, 2011 Tim Schlittner No Comments By Tim Schlittner For the last five weeks, Otto’s Army has examined the experience and talent on Syracuse’s offense. From Ryan Nassib to Antwon Bailey to Marcus Sales to Nick Provo to Justin Pugh, the Orange return a corps of players poised to contribute in a major way in 2011. In past years, any discussion of the offense [...]
Posted in Football Friday, Tim Schlittner Tags: defensive line, Football Friday, Syracuse No Comments »Four For The Fourth: Syracuse Football Rushmore
July 1st, 2011 Tim Schlittner 5 Comments By Tim Schlittner I hope everyone has a great 4th of July weekend. Choosing the four greatest Orange to represent the Syracuse University football program on Mount Rushmore is an unenviable task. Since its first winning season in 1890, Syracuse football has been a factory of great players and coaches. There have been 23 bowl [...]
Football Friday: Quarterbacks
June 10th, 2011 Tim Schlittner 1 Comment By Tim Schlittner We are 83 days away from the kickoff vs. Wake Forest and we here at OttosArmy.com will be bringing you football content every Friday from this point forward. Let me start with a simple question: is this the most comfortable you’ve felt with your starting quarterback at Syracuse since Paul Pasqualoni was [...]
