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It's an Axe Brent Anything episode of Syracuse Sports!

Syracuse Sports Insiders had questions about SU football road trips, favorite Orange athletes, CNY's best pizza and wings, what the ACC would do to replace Clemson and FSU, how Brent transitioned out of radio and more!

This is part one of this edition of Axe Brent Anything. Look for part two on the Syracuse Sports podcast and YouTube feeds on Friday, June 7.

Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe is joined by Mike Curtis of the Dallas Morning News and Drew Carter, the voice of the Boston Celtics, to preview the 2024 NBA Finals.

Mike, a former colleague of Brent's at Syracuse.com, describes his journey from covering the worst team in the NBA this season (Detroit) to being on the beat of a team in the NBA Finals. Curtis also breaks down what it's like to watch Mavericks Luca Doncic night after night, the key matchups in the Finals and having to pivot and cover a game from an airport when weather delays prevented him from getting to a Western Conference Finals matchup.

Carter tells Brent about the pressure on the Celtics to win, what it's like to follow in the footsteps of a Celtics play-by-play legend, if former SU star Oshae Brissett can contribute for Boston in the Finals and about his life post-Syracuse.

Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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Caitlin Clark's entry into the world of professional basketball has brought on a flurry of new attention and hot takes.

Basketball analyst Isis Young, a former Syracuse standout and current college basketball and WNBA color commentator, joins Brent Axe on Syracuse Sports to make sense of it all.

Does the WNBA have an obligation to protect Clark or are a lot of people just overreacting to some veteran players sending a message to a rookie? How will all the added attention Clark is bringing to the game eventually aid the league?

Axe and Young also talk about if former SU star Dyaisha Fair will get another opportunity in the WNBA, her view of Coach Felisha Legette-Jack's approach in leading Syracuse women's basketball and preview the NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks.

Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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Brent Axe and Mike Waters discuss the commitment of 5-star prospect Sadiq White to Syracuse Basketball. 

Brent and Mike also discuss other recruiting targets on SU’s radar and catch up on the latest SU basketball offseason news including Eddie Lampkin’s re-affirmed commitment to the Orange and what that means for the upcoming season.

Our Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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You can email Brent at [email protected]

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe is joined by Andrew Carter of the News & Observer to get the latest dish on what happened at the ACC's spring meetings?

Where do the lawsuits stand with FSU and Clemson trying to break away from the league? What was the feel of the meeting? Was it awkward or was everyone conducting business as usual? What did ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips say and what was his tone this year? What did he mean by a "look-in" to the league's contract with ESPN? What is Syracuse's role in the league now and going forward to keep it together? Brent and Andrew discuss that and more.

Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe is joined by ESPN's David Hale to talk ACC football and music.

David gives Brent an eye-opening stat about Syracuse QB Kyle McCord, his view of Fran Brown's makeover of Orange football, where things stand in ACC realignment and the big headlines that could come out of the ACC's spring meetings next week. Brent and David also review Bruce Springsteen's recent show at the JMA Wireless Dome and discuss their Top 10 Tom Petty songs.

Before Brent talks to David, he goes over some thoughts from Syracuse Sports Insiders on whether they'd have LaNorris Sellers or Kyle McCord as Syracuse's QB and pays tribute to John Murphy, the Voice of the Buffalo Bills, who has retired.

Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe chats with Bowl Season Director Nick Carparelli on some of the biggest issues affecting college football in 2024 including NIL, the transfer portal, paying athletes as employees and the college football playoff.

Carparelli tells Axe some of the highlights of a recent conversation with NCAA President Charlie Baker on how schools will beed to bring name, image and likeness right "in-house" and handle payouts to athletes. Brent and Nick also talk about the college football playoff and how many teams is ideal, what changes need to be made in the college sports calendar in terms of when the transfer portal should be open and when it shouldn't.

Axe and Carparelli also discuss his time working at the Big East, his early impressions of how Fran Brown is changing the culture of Syracuse football and his experience recruiting Donovan McNabb while a SU football assistant under Paul Pasqualoni.

Our Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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ESPN's Anish Shroff joins Brent Axe on the latest episode of Syracuse Sports.

Brent and Anish ponder what will be the proper marker to declare Syracuse men's lacrosse to be "back" to its traditional status as one of the powers in college lacrosse. Shroff also discusses what it would take for the Orange to go deep into the NCAA Tournament and the ACC having a good chance to dominate the sport's Final Four presence on Memorial Day weekend.

Brent also get's Anish's perspective on what new Syracuse football coach Fran Brown is doing to turnaround Orange football and the two reminisce about a wild story that happened the night they watched the final episode of 'The Soprano's' together.

Our Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe examines what Syracuse football and basketball still need out of the transfer portal now that the deadline for athletes to submit their names to it has passed.

For football, Syracuse met with an intriguing option for backup quarterback last weekend. Brent tells you about him and the other positions of need still there.

(NOTE: This podcast was recorded just before Christian Veilleux committed to Georgia State so he's no longer on Syracuse's radar, but the concept of the type of quarterback SU is looking for still applies. I also wanted to note that he visited and that Syracuse is still on the hunt for a backup QB)

Mike Waters joins Brent to discuss SU basketball's potential wish list for the portal, including guards Kadary Richmond and Ken Davis Jr. and if SU would be OK if it stood pat with the roster it has now.

Brent then reads texts from Syracuse Sports Insiders on what they feel both programs still need to add from the portal.

Our Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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On the latest episode of Syracuse Sports, Brent Axe opens by pondering a potential return to Syracuse basketball for former guard Kadary Richmond, who is in the transfer portal. What are the advantages and disadvantages of bringing Richmond back and could SU pull it off? Brent also opines on how Syracuse women's lacrosse just can't past a nemesis that has now beaten the Orange six straight times. 

Brent is then joined by former Syracuse quarterback Charley Loeb and syracuse.com's Emily Leiker to discuss SU football's backup quarterback situation. Loeb trains both Carlos Del Rio-Wilson and incoming freshman Jakhari Williams in his role with Quarterback Country. Loeb tells Brent and Emily about the development of both quarterbacks and who is ready to step up if SU starter Kyle McCord goes down. 

Loeb also talks about the buzz surrounding the program among SU football alums on the arrival of new Orange coach Fran Brown and tells a funny story about a text he got from the new SU boss. 

Our Syracuse Sports Insiders helped shape the conversation of this podcast with their great questions and opinions. 

Become a Syracuse Sports Insider today! Text "orange" to 315-847-3895 to get direct access to Brent to get your opinions heard and questions answered on the Syracuse Sports podcast.

You can also text Brent anytime, including during and after SU games. As a Syracuse Sports Insider, you will get Brent's opinion and reaction to breaking news first via text message, your messages get priority on postgame shows and podcasts, he'll take you behind-the-scenes of SU sports and more! 

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