Chippy Syracuse Gains Intangible Preseason Edge

If there’s a chance in hell for any team to win more than five games in the Big East in 2011 (it could happen!), our early money has to go to Syracuse, where it’s day three of practice and players are already taking swings at each other on the field. This display of man’s inhumanity to man represents the kind of collective leap forward in football psyche to which all conference-mates should aspire (except, of course, for West Virginia, where this sort of thing is absorbed in peewee ball).