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David Ryslik, Peddie School DT and member of the NJ.com Top 50, updates recruitment
David Ryslik (Todderick Hunt/NJ.com)
By Todderick Hunt/NJ.com
on July 23, 2014 8 a.m.
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David Ryslik,
Peddie School (Hightstown, N.J.) defensive tackle and
member of the NJ.com Top 50, saw his recruitment rise throughout the spring evaluation period, earning multiple offers as coaches stopped by his school to inquire about the 6-3, 280-pound senior.
However, his recruitment has quieted over the past couple months, though he put forth strong camp performances at both Rutgers and Penn State.
“I went up to Penn State after Rutgers and that’s about it for the camps,” Ryslik told NJ.com. “And I’ve just kind of been looking around, talking to people.”
Ryslik was one of the top performers at this summer's first installation of
the Rutgers Big Man Academy, and says he did just as well at Penn State, thereafter.
“I did good (at PSU). They liked me a lot,” he said. “I thought I did, if not better, as well as I did at Rutgers. I thought I did pretty well. It was fun.”
However, the Nittany Lions have yet to extend an offer.
“The coaches are basically telling me to look out,” he said. “They are saying they are gonna sign another d-tackle and an offer could be coming real soon. I’m just doing what I have to do. If an offer comes, an offer comes. It would be very cool because I like them, a lot. And if it doesn’t, I’ve just got to move forward.”
Ryslik hasn’t been in contact with the Rutgers staff since the last time he set foot on campus, in June.
“To be honest, I haven’t talked to them since that camp,” he said. “I talked to them at the camp and all the coaches seemed really interested, but I never heard anything after that.”
Syracuse and Temple, two of the teams to offer Ryslik, have been recruiting him the hardest, while there are a handful of schools still playing the middle of the road.
“(Syra)cuse is still recruiting me pretty hard in terms of schools I have offers from. Temple still comes hard,” he said. “Wake Forest, they said that if I get down there and visit that they’ll probably throw me an offer. Then the schools I’ve been talking to for a while like Maryland, Georgia Tech, Boston College, they are all schools that want me to come through before the season starts and they’ll probably throw me an offer after the season.
“I would have no problem going to all these places, but the thing is, it’s just hard to get there. I can’t just hop in a car and drive to North Carolina. Maryland, maybe that’s a different story because it’s just three hours, but still, it’s difficult. Most of the schools, they want me to get there, but the thing is, if I can’t get there, they just told me to wait until the season (to take official visits paid for by the schools).”
Ryslik, who holds offers from Duke, Temple, UConn, Cincinnati, Syracuse, Old Dominion and Monmouth, had hoped his recruitment would be winding down by now. However, he is still unsure of the direction he’d liked to go in.
“When it comes to the recruiting process, I wanted to make a decision before my season started, but I have no problem being patient. I’m not about to rush anything. I wanted it to be end of August, early September, but everything is still going. I thought that by this point I’d have everything summed up and everything would have stopped, but it’s all prolonging.”
However, the Syracuse Orange and Duke Blue Devils appear in the process of separating themselves from the pack.
“I look at everyone, to be honest. But I would say probably Syracuse sticks out a little bit more than everyone else, and maybe Duke a little bit, because it’s ACC, the big conference,” he said. “I like the big conference-type thing. I feel like if I play in a big conference like the Big Ten or ACC, the competition will be harder and make me better.”
