2014 Syracuse Football Blog: Cuse Gives Back

Friday, August 15, 2014

Cuse Gives Back

After another morning of learning from the 2^nd Brigade Combat Team, Thursday night was Cuse's chance to give back to the Fort Drum community.

The Orange held their annual kids clinic from the youth football players of Fort Drum before scrimmaging in front of the soldiers and their families.

"This is the second year that I've been up here for and it was a great experience for all of them," said Fort Drum Mighty Mights' coach Charles Crawford. "It's great for them to see the older guys at it because our kids come out of this and say 'I want to go to college' and 'I want to be like them' so they're coming up and being role models so that's a good thing."

The clinic consisted of the young players rotating in groups through drills set up by each position group. The offensive line's group where the pop warner players were able to hit the blocking shields held by the Syracuse student-athletes were the favorite drill of the Mighty Mights.

"The hitting was definitely their favorite," Crawford said. "When they got with the linemen and they were knocking them down and the cheering and the motivational stuff afterwards – that was great for them."

While this was the Orange's opportunity to give back to their hosts for the week, head coach Scott Shafer thinks they once again benefitted from the experience.

"Once again great experience here at Fort Drum," Shafer said. "The kids camp was wonderful. Seeing those little pee-wee kids running around and our kids spending time with them was great."

Syracuse will close its time at Fort Drum tomorrow morning with one final activity with the soldiers – a paintball match.