One of my favorite parts of Syracuse week is reading and sharing content from Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician. Just a very clever and creative blog devoted to a team that, quite frankly could have sapped the cleverness and creativity from a base. Seriously, take a few minutes to read. I won’t mind.

A while back, I was hipped to Coach Doug Marrone’s affection for the words “tremendous”  and “standpoint.” Hilarious, I thought, and the sort of thing that would get me excommunicated. Fortunately, it became a running gag over there, but something funny has just recently happened.

Bill Stewart said “tremendous” twice in his Sunday teleconference and three times on the Big East teleconference Monday. Not to be outdone, the first question Marrone was asked on the teleconference was about Max Suter and the leadership role the junior safety from just outside Pittsburgh has assumed for the Orange.

“He’s really done a tremendous job, uh, a great job for us …”

We have Stewart’s press conference today and Marrone’s tomorrow and we can agree those will definitely be one thing.

Neat to see.