A poster over at FanLax updated their list of players currently in the Transfer Portal. There were/are some names that stood out to me. I'm probably missing others, but these names drew my attention.
Darien Cook - Attack - Brown: Second on the team with 37 points (21g, 16a).
Brian Minicus - Attack - Colgate: Leads team in points with 49 points (31g, 18a). Brother will be a freshman at Loyola next year.
Peter Rizzoti - LSM - Dartmouth: 24 groundballs and 10 caused turnovers. Rumors on FL say he's headed to Rutgers.
Daniel Hicks - Goalie - Dartmouth: 54% save percentage, 11.9 GAA.
Dylan Watson - Attack - Georgetown: Leads team in scoring with 50 points (46g, 4a).
James Reilly - FO - Georgetown: 64% face-off percentage. I have a feeling that both he and Watson will be back, probably depends on what they want for grad school.
Austin Madronic - Attack - Harvard: Second on team with 34 points (22g, 12 a)
Derrek Maddona - Midfield - Hobart: Fifth on team in scoring with 16 points (15g, 1a).
Chris Conlin - Defense - Holy Cross: 50 groundballs and 35 caused turnovers. Rumors on FL indicate he is headed to Notre Dame.
Mo Silah - LSM - Towson: 22 groundballs and 14 caused turnovers
Joe Neumann - FO - Yale: 47% winning percentage, but was number one ranked FOGO recruit his senior year of high school.
Syracuse is in an interesting spot in regards to the transfer market. They have one of, if not the top recruiting class coming in and will obviously want to give their talented freshmen playing time next year. But this is still a team that will in all likelihood will finish the season with just four wins. Help is needed pretty much all over the roster. Gait largely stayed away from the transfer market last year with the exception of Nick Fraterrgio, and post fall ball, Bobby Gavin. More players will obviously enter the portal after the season, and some may already have deals lined up with teams and not even enter the portal (Notre Dame did this last season).
I think Syracuse would benefit from landing any player on the above list, but they need to weigh the benefits of taking in a one and done player over a freshman or younger player they see promise in. Face-off needs to be the priority, but outside of Reilly, who I have to imagine will end up back at Gtown, the pickings are slim so far. Syracuse could really use a goalie upgrade. Midfield could also really stand to be boosted, but outside of Maddona there's not much. Of course they could land an attackman and move them to midfield as well. How aggressive will Gait be here? I can't see him doing a total Rutgers makeover, but to me he really needs to supplement the talent coming in. Plus with the fifth year exception, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to pick up players that in normal years you'd have no chance of landing.
The elephant in the room is of course how many more Ivy League players join the portal. Sam Handley is the big name to keep an eye on, as he's a senior and I beleive can't go back to Penn. The poster who updated the list was clear to point out that Handley is not in the portal as of now. He's also not discussed as being a PLL draft possibility so I imagine that he will be playing NCAA lacrosse somewhere next year. If he does enter the portal every team is going to be after him. The one angle Syracuse could have is he and Dordevic are close and grew up together playing lacrosse. It would be a tough sell coming off a losing season, but he would solve a lot of problems for SU. Something to keep an eye on.
