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Top NJ DE Prospect Jamal Holloway Includes Syracuse in Top 10, Plans Visit (PS; Bailey)
High School defensive end Jamal Holloway named Syracuse to his Top 10 in a tweet on Wednesday night.
The news shouldn't come as a surprise as Holloway will make his second visit to SU on July 16.
The 6-foot-3, 215-pound Holloway is rated three stars and the No. 50 weak-side defensive end in the country by 247Sports.com's composite rankings. He has offers from Syracuse, Michigan State, North Carolina, West Virginia and Pittsburgh, among others, according to 247Sports.com.
Holloway, who visited SU with Camden teammates on June 10, is teammates withOrange linebacker commit Dymelle Parker. He logged 35 tackles and five sacks last season, per NJ.com.
The Orange has 12 players currently committed to its 2016 class, counting 2015 holdover defensive end Brandon Ginnetti. Ginnetti is the lone defensive lineman.
SU is expected to take about 18 players this cycle in order to stay under the NCAA cap of 85 total scholarships. All verbal commitments are non-binding until the player signs a national letter of intent in February.
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Meet the 2015 SU Football Team: Zaire Franklin (sujuiceonline.com; Cheng)
Syracuse football’s defense faces a monumental task this offseason.
The Orange defense will need to replace eight starters along with several key reserves, and the returning players account for just 29.3 percent of tackles from the 2014 season according to Phil Steele. That ranks SU dead last at 128th in Division I football.
That includes a retooled linebacker core, with outside linebackers Marqez Hodge and Parris Bennett joining leading returning tackler Zaire Franklin, a middle linebacker.
Franklin played in all 12 games last season as a true freshman, recording 44 tackles including 5.0 tackles for loss. With injuries piling up for last year’s team, Franklin floated between outside and middle linebacker, before finishing at the middle linebacker position at the end of the season.
“We decided that was a pretty good combination,” Syracuse head coach Scott Shafer said. “Zaire’s done a nice job.”
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Franklin flashed his potential in the final game of the season against Boston College, recording six tackles, including a tackle for loss and one sack. That continued in the spring game in April, with Franklin logging another six tackles.
It has been indicative of his progress throughout spring.
“He had a very good spring,” Shafer said. “He has a lot of work to do with his pass drops but he’s a good, tough physical middle linebacker, a good football player, and he’s going to have a very good career.”
Inside slant: Syracuse finished with the No. 38 defense in the NCAA last year, allowing 24.3 points per game. If SU wants to approach that number again this year, Shafer and defensive coordinator Chuck Bullough will need several young players to mature quickly, including Franklin.
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Prince George's County Approves Maryland's Plan to Sell Beer at Athletic Events (baltimoresun.com; Stubbs)
The Prince George's County Board of Commissioners Wednesday approved Maryland’s proposal to sell beer at Byrd Stadium and Xfinity Center beginning in September.
The decision comes nearly a month after Maryland President Wallace D. Loh approved the student-led proposal, and he spoke to the board for nearly 30 minutes Wednesday about the initiative’s potential as an “amazing and bold experiment.” The board also heard a detailed pitch from a number of other Maryland representatives, including the University’s Chief of Police David Mitchell and Athletic Council chair Nick Hadley.
Only one board member, vice chairman Shaihi Mwalimu, opposed the move Wednesday, and Loh was careful to label the approval as a victory.
“I would describe it as an expression of confidence in our students and above all a commitment to their safety. That they learn to drink responsibly and safely in a monitored environment,” Loh said after the hearing.
With the approval, Maryland becomes one of the few power five conference schools to offer beer at athletic events. According to published reports, 32 of the 128 Football Bowl Subdivision schools allowed alcohol sales last season. Only five of those schools – Louisville, Miami, Minnesota, Syracuse and West Virginia – were from power five conferences. Loh also said Wednesday that both Ohio State and Texas will begin alcohol sales at home football games this fall.
University of Maryland cautioned on alcohol sales plan
Maryland projects beer sales will bring in at least $500,000 annually of added revenue, proceeds that will be contributed to mental health counseling, responsible drinking programs and sexual assault awareness programs, Loh said, adding that he believed the proposal will cut into binge drinking.
“I am doing it because I do believe that creating a safe and responsible environment will mitigate, over time, the issues of excessive drinking,” Loh said during his presentation.
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Report: US Army Cuts at Fort Drum Around 1000 (PS; Weaver)
The U.S. Army is expected to downsize Fort Drum personnel by about 1,000, according to a report from the Watertown Daily News.
The low number, attributed to an unnamed military source, would be good news for the Army base and community in the North Country.
The decreases are part of an overall shrinking of 40,000 forces in the U.S. Army. Officials later today are expected to outline the cuts across Army bases. The Army is shrinking its uniformed forces to 450,000 by the end of 2017.
It wasn't immediately clear whether those 1,000 cuts at Fort Drum would be limited to uniformed personnel or also included civilian staff.
Other downsizing news was leaking out across the country in anticipation of the announcement of changes.
Fort Drum in northern New York, where the 10th Mountain Division is stationed. There were 17,269 troops based at Fort Drum in 2014, down from a high of 19,978 in 2011.
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