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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5481273, member: 4819"] I think this should be a good opportunity for the Orange to make a splash in recruiting. They are coming off a Final Four appearance, and the preceding class ('26) is quite small with just eight commits so far. Also I don't think there are many red-shirt candidates for this year's sophomore class, so there won't be many super seniors on campus. It's probably fools gold to try and predict how the roster should look in three years, but there are openings. And whatever, what are message boards for except for rampant speculation? I count 32 players scheduled to be on the team for when the '27 class steps on campus. That seems pretty small even if the 48 player roster cap is in place. They didn't take a goalie in last years class, and there are supposed to be some good keepers in this year's group. I think Ippoliti has a redshirt year, and he would be challenged in net by Brennan Ferguson and Lucas Bartlow. It would be nice to see the Orange nab a high level keeper in this class. I count only eight long poles due to be on the roster. This years squad had 13, so again, room to grow. The '26 class is only bringing in two poles (James and Perfetti). I haven't seen a lot of full time LSMs listed by Syracuse or IL, so curious if they go after more players who are designated for the middle of the field. Filardi and Bolognino are the only guys I can think of that can really be considered LSMs. Midfield seems like a positional grouping in good shape with 10 rostered and two more SSDMs (Kittelberger and Cullum). Of course you can never have enough middies, and more will have to be moved to SSDM (thinking Schnidewind might be a candidate here in the future). They did bring in five middies for the '26 class so perhaps there is less an emphasis there this year. FO will need to be addressed as there are only three guys expected to be on the roster. Similar to goalie it would be really great to have a high end player here. Angelo struggled in his first year and we don't know much about Olenik or Huang. Attack should be interesting to watch. Payton Anderson should be leading the group, but curious to see who his running mates would be. O'Farrell, Meyer and Peck would seem to be the leading candidates, but not sure those are names that would scare away a big time recruit. I really hope they make a move for Woods here and hopefully brining in another high level talent. With Peck moving up a class, they aren't bringing in an attack recruit for the '26 class. [/QUOTE]

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