Coach Shafer Praises Leadership

Orange head coach Scott Shafer will lead the squad in the 2013 season-opener against Penn State at MetLife Stadium on Saturday, August 31 (3:30 p.m., ABC), but in his mind the senior class is doing the heavy lifting when it comes to leadership. The squad boasts 24 seniors, 11 on the offense, 11 on the defense and two on special teams.

"I love our senior class and I love our captains," Shafer said in his weekly exclusive Orange All Access Interview. "I've seen our captains really take the team over and our senior class has helped them with it. There is strength in numbers and we have a really large senior class. It's a group of kids that's really committed to find ways to win games. That's probably the one thing that excites me the most about this team."

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