Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Fresh 25: National Signing Day 2014 Overview

The Midwest and the Southeast sum up the 2014, Syracuse football recruiting class. 25 guys are on board to join the Orange next season. Pretty much half of the class hails from Illinois and Florida.

You can thank Scott Shafer and OC George McDonald for their recruiting efforts, there, as well as DL coach Tim Daoust and LBs coach Clark Lea. Overall, the Orange put together a solid class.

Everyone wonders where the former Marrone/Anselmo connections to the NY State and New Jersey area went. Well the bottom line is this: if you can recruit players down South in Florida and take advantage of Shafer's old roots, you absolutely do it.

The standouts of this class come on both sides of the ball.

LB Zaire Franklin - The Philly native has great maturity already in high school. He's prioritized school over sports and has a great head on his shoulders. One of the original three to go Orange

OL Denzel Ward - He put the flat-brim hat on at 11 AM today announcing he's taking his talents up On the Hill. Ward is 6'9"...SIX FOOT FREAKING NINE. He's a beast that had offers from Ohio State, Florida and Nebraska. His decision came down to Cuse, Vandy and USF. Great pick-up. He prasied Shafer's swaggy and the sports management program at SU.

WR KJ Williams - Easily the biggest get talent wise...IN 10 YEARS. The first 4-star recruit to pledge Orange in a long time. In my work over at Orange Fizz (orangefizz.net), KJ's told us that Marvin Harrison and Rob Moore are his influence. He wants to do great things like they did.

WR Steve Ishmael - Another awesome wide receiver get for Syracuse. Ishmael committed yesterday and signed on the dotted line today. He's in good talks already with QBs AJ Long and Alin Edouard.

QB AJ Long - The anchor perhaps as well as Twitter guru of recruiting! AJ is already up on campus as he enrolled early. Who knows, he may give QB Terrel Hunt a run for his money next season. HA!

For more coverage of National Signing Day, check out orangefizz.net for a full NSD thread that touches on every recruit.

Happy Signing everyone!

-Glash

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