Really nice haul by the Orange, and not for nothing this class ranks up their with the best that IL has put together since they started doing a "Power 100" in 2007. What that might mean long term of course is another question entirely. But having 10 recruits on the top 100 ties them with "best recruiting class of all-time", 2007 UVA (Bratton twins), 2013 Maryland (Matt Rambo, Tim Rotanz, Conor Cannizaro), and 2009 Johns Hopkins (John Greely, Chris Lightner, Zach Palmer). The only team that I can find that listed more players on the Power 100 was last years North Carolina with 11 (Dewy Egan, Paul Barton, Anthony DeMarco).
It's very impressive that SU has three players in top 10 (not a case when the list was initially put together), including the number one recruit in Spallina. Like Lexus pointed out, Thomson was a late add to the Five Star group once he flipped and Figuerias went from Four Star to the number 6 overall player.
When you start nitpicking, compared to other top classes, Syracuse looks very strong. I would say they compare favorably to that Maryland group which went on to a ton of success. The Terps had three in the top 10 but of course Rambo was infamously ranked number 2. Hopkins had two in the top 10 with Greely at 1 and Chris Lightner at #9. UNC might have the most total recruits, but their highest ranked recruit was Egan at #10. UVA's of course was legendary at the time in that the Bratton twins were ranked #1 and #2. Overall they had four of the top 5 recruits and their six other recruits were ranked in the top 52 of the list.
Of course all of this really doesn't matter, it's what they do on the field that counts. Of the teams listed Maryland and UVA combined for two titles. The Hopkins class was infamously nicknamed the "Transformational Class" or something like that by a poster on LaxPower and is mocked pretty regularly. The young Tar Heels have only one season under their belt but last year was a disappointment and not a lot of them played. A lot of these players transferred or didn't play much.
Long story short, the rankings are nice to read about but the sooner the team tears them up and focuses on the field, the better.
