Mike Williams News

It's Friday and I'm down here monitoring the Syracuse University basketball team, which put on a very nice show in the Garden on Thursday.

ESPN's Len Pasquarelli reports that Syracuse wide receiver Mike Williams will enter the NFL Draft next spring.

As any self-respecting Orange fan with a sense of his teama s history will tell you, Rutgers is not Syracusea s rival.

Their hearts are in the right place. It's just that their numbers and talent are down, and that makes the task for the Syracuse University football team especially difficult.

Syracuse quarterback Greg Paulus has had an up-and-down season for the Orange, throwing 10 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

Growing up, the last thing you wanted to hear is that someone is disappointed in you.

Column as I see 'em: *No offense to Tony Dungy, one of the most respected men in Football.

Louisville is expected to start Adam Froman at quarterback against Syracuse, as long as Froman makes it through warm-ups without a problem.

Cincinnati quarterback Zach Collaros set a Big East record for total offense by amassing 555 yards against UConn last week.

Nose tackle Arthur Jones has played his last down with the Orange. The Orange lost its best offensive weapon when receiver Mike Williams abruptly quit the team last week.

An El Nino in the equatorial Pacific Ocean will be the main weather player through the winter months.

Syracuse arrived at Heinz Field Saturday as a depleted team, reeling from star wide receiver Mike Williams' decision to quit the program.

Posted on Monday, November 02, 2009 at 5:03 p.m. Syracuse coach Doug Marrone said goodbye to his star receiver and defended his starting quarterback Monday.

Greg Williams' 51-yard interception return for a touchdown late in the first half got slow-starting Pittsburgh going, and the No.

Though disinclined to muck about in self-indulgence, Doug Marrone might confess that he saw much of this upheaval, much of this turmoil, coming.

Notre Dame, then West Virginia, with a possible Big East-deciding game against Cincinnati to follow.

Last meeting: Pitt won, 34-24, last season at the Carrier Dome and leads the all-time series 31-30-3. Outlook: The Panthers look to start 5-0 in the conference for only the second time since Big East football formed in 1993.

Pittsburgh quarterback Bill Stull threw for 166 yards and one TD in last season's 34-24 win over the Orange at the Carrier Dome.

Posted by ESPN.com's Brian Bennett If you're a Pitt fan, it's easy to start daydreaming about the final three games of this season.

It's been a tough couple weeks for two of the nation's top wide receiver prospects, as Minnesota's Eric Decker and Syracuse's Mike Williams are both out for the remainder of the season, although for different reasons.