Syracuse Football Is Over

Syracuse had a good run. Donovan McNabb, Jim Brown, the #44, a stadium named after air conditioning: all good stuff. But they've been teetering on the edge of oblivion for going on ten years now, and I'm sad to say that Syracuse football has just ceased to be:

Darrick Scott, the Orange's top recruit for the class of 2009, announced tonight he is de-commiting from SU in favor of Central Michigan, according to a report on Scout.com.

He wasn't even that much of a "top recruit": Scott's a four-star recruit to Scout but garners only two from Rivals and gets a bleah 72/100 from ESPN, which looks more like one overly enthusiastic Darrick Scott fan hacking into the Scout database than anything else. And yet: he's headed to Central Michigan.

Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician, for its part:

So we are clear, this kid looked at Syracuse, then looked at Central Michigan, looked back at Syracuse, looked again at Central Michigan and then decided he was better off at the MAC school. ...

All Syracuse fans have been advised to stay away from sharp objects and anything that could be fashioned into a weapon. If you know a Syracuse fan, please keep a close watch on them and alert the authorities at the first sign of trouble.

I think we're well beyond the "first signs of trouble." What are the odds Greg Robinson gets fired after this year? 9000 percent?