Orange Football Earns 14th AFCA Academic Honor

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Orange Football Earns 14th AFCA Academic Honor

Orange Football Earns 14th AFCA Academic Honor    

Rich Scanlon

The 2003 Syracuse football team has earned the 2004 Academic Achievement Honorable Mention Award from the American Football Coaches Association. Syracuse is one of 32 schools recognized for academic excellence by the AFCA this year.

The award is given to a school’s football program for having a graduation rate of more than 70 percent. This year marks the 14th time in the last 18 years, and the 10th time during head coach Paul Pasqualoni’s 13-year tenure that SU has been honored with this award.

The Orange class of 2003 includes 2003 Academic All-Americans Rich Scanlon (first team), Nick Romeo (second team), and Josh Thomas (All-District I selection).

Syracuse is one of only seven schools to be recognized 14 or more times since the AFCA began its honorable mention program in 1987. The other schools are Boston College, Duke, Notre Dame, Rice, Vanderbilt and Virginia.

The 1999 Syracuse football team won the 2000 AFCA Academic Achievement Award for having a graduation rate of 100 percent.

Good for them.

[smazza]

only teams that are doing poorly in sports report academic honors like this

[Apis Bull]

That really a cynical view of things

[cuseroc]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense because we all know that Cuse is doing poorly in sports.

[Apis Bull]

Even if Cuse won a national championship in every sport, they'd still anounce this.

[bulls96go]

3 of the other 14 year winners are in the ACC. when BC leaves

be has cuse and ND sort of