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Syracuse Football: Eric Dungey for Heisman Campaign Starts Now

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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The Syracuse football team is 4-4 because of their star quarterback, Eric Dungey. Lets make the case for Dungey being in the a Heisman conversation.

I am here to officially start the campaign for Syracuse football star, Eric Dungey, for the Heisman trophy. For those of you naysayers out there, the real question is why am I the first to bring this up? He leads the ACC in passing…let that soak in for a minute.

This isn’t the ACC of years past that was more of a joke of a division. This ACC has five teams in the top 25 with arguably the two best teams in college football (Clemson and Louisville). Prior to today’s game he was averaging 313.9 yards per game this includes an abysmal outing where he battled Wake Forest and Hurricane Matthew. If you throw that game out he is averaging 353 passing yards per game. Boom! Let’s squelch the white noise right now with some facts.

Ok I hear you in the back row, the reason Eric is doing so well is the Senior transfer from Maryland Amba Etta-Tawo. Thank you for bringing that up, let me put that to bed right now. Prior to this season Amba had not had 1000 yards receiving … in his entire college career! For the stat hounds out there, Amba passed that number today in game eight with four to go. Couple that with today’s results of four receivers each in the 100 yard neighborhood with two closer to a buck fifty. So no, the reason Eric is excelling isn’t Amba rather the reverse. Amba should send Eric 10% of his signing bonus next April following the NFL draft.

His numbers are inflated due to competition. Seriously? He has gone toe to toe with Louisville, Virginia Tech, Notre Dame year in year out powerhouses in the NCAA. His numbers in those games are 255/363/311 yards passing against top flight talent.

The saddest part of all of this is that the current top two contenders for the Heisman come from the ACC and both trail Eric statistically. Those two by the way are surrounded by significantly better talent than Eric, while their strength of schedule is identical. The other contenders in the top eight include a running back from San Diego St and a linebacker from Michigan. So once again, Syracuse is the Rodney Dangerfield of the NCAA with a top flight Heisman candidate who flat out is getting no respect. So let’s go Orange nation I expect a enormous banner hanging from the State Tower Building Monday morning to announce the official beginning of the campaign for Eric Dungey for Heisman.

Eric see you at the Downtown Athletic club in December. #DungeyForHeisman