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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 5342355, member: 6809"] As the Director of Player Evaluation, I get to see EVERY player offered, their physical size, weight training, the skills they have for their position, what they have achieved for the years they have played, and almost as important as everything else their 40 time. This post has nothing to do with NIL or four- or- five stars players. It has everything to do with the quality of players we are offering under Fran Brown. On the Football Recruiting Board, you get to see every one of my posts for every player offered if you choose to so and I hope you do. I work hard at getting you the best information and picture of every recruit offered by Fran Brown. I have never been so busy since his recruiting began. For those of you not familiar with me, I was an All-State QB from NJ. I threw, in my senior year, for 20 TDS and ran for 15. I was the NJ State Champion in the 100 YD dash @ 9.7. Recruited and offered by five mid major schools, I chose not to accept the offers because they did not have the major I felt I could be good at, Industrial Design, but Syracuse who did, did not recruit me beyond sending letters with questions wanting my information and promoting Syracuse Football. I am glad things worked out the way they did I have been almost all over the world during a great career in design and am still designing. So, I walked on to SU and beat out the freshman QB and was awarded a scholarship but had to quit sports at the end of my freshman year because I was leaving classes every day to go to practice. Floyd Little and I would compete with each other at the end of practice during wind sprints - we were both about the same speed. I almost flunked out but went to summer school and got the necessary grades to continue. I‘ve always wanted to evaluate young players and now that Fran Brown is our Head Coach, feel even better about SU and its football program. The reason I say that is because of the quality of players he is offering from the 2024 class to 2028 - 9. I believe Fran Brown is a gem for us. He has an innate sense about football in who to recruit and has a staff who is following his lead in recruiting. I can say for the three years I have been doing this; this January was the busiest month I have ever had. The staff was hard at it recruiting in the areas some of you have already mentioned on another thread. One of the biggest changes in recruiting by Fran Brown is individual and team speed. If you have been on the Football Recruiting page you may have noticed that I rate each recruit’s 40 time from Elite 4.0 – 4.39 to Fair- 4.9 – 5.0. Most of his recruits whose 40 speed are available average 4.5 – 4.59 which is fast. The difference in speed is obvious when you watched Sean Tucker, Jackson Meeks, Darrel Gill and most of the WR group, DB’s and RB’s. Speed is important and I have noticed a significant change in 40 times since Fran began. Fran knows that speed is critical for any position and that is why the offers in January were special because of listed and estimated 40 times. I don’t know how we will do next season but think we have a better chance at winning more games than losing. An example of one of the offers I posted when he was recruited is Darrel Gill. Out of Texas he has developed into a high - quality receiver. He has appeared in 25 games at Syracuse as either a wide receiver or kick returner ... Has 38 receptions for 630 yards and three touchdowns, two carries for six yards, 12 kickoff returns for 262 yards (21.8 avg.) and four tackles in his Orange career. As a sophomore appeared in 12 games with three starts ... Was one-of-five players on the Syracuse roster to have over 500 receiving yards in 2024, to lead the nation ... 31 catches for 570 yards and two touchdowns ... 235 yards across the final three games. Finally, it is how Fran develops players that is so important. He’s very good at it. You do not get awarded Head Coaching Newcomer of the year by not being the best you can be. GO SU! [/QUOTE]

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