Class of 2026 WR Calvin Russell (FL) COMMITTED/SIGNED TO SYRACUSE (7/5/25)

[wfschrec]

How did Collins and Carney look vs power 5 Defenses?
I know what I saw, and you can't tell me I didn't see that. An athletic QB, with very good mechanics play very successfully vs power 5 defenses. Threw for 504 yards, going 34-for-44 … Tossed seven touchdown passes … Earned a 221.4 efficiency rating … Ran eight times, gaining 27 yards

Ok Einstein you have seen a limited sample set. As I said cautiously optimistic but he has only attempted more than 7 passes in a game once. Once! You haven’t seen him play a full quarter more than once. He may be insanely good or he may not but you don’t have an accurate sample size yet. Nowhere did I say anything about Collins or Carney or any other quarterback I spoke specifically to Angeli and a limited sample set. I saw Zack Mahoney throw for 440 and 5 tuddies against a P5 once … can Angeli perform for an entire season? You have no clue nor do I, but we may soon find out.

 

[dbrave]

Syracuse football is in the map again. This is all up to coach brown and the coaching staff. I’d like to be here writing about fran brown as our coach in ten years, really. This is what makes solid a football program.

 

[orangencpolice]

I can’t believe that we landed him. As of Saturday it was apparently down to Michigan, FSU and Oregon. Fran is definitely the man. I hope we hang onto him for signing day. Go Cuse!

 

[JarHeadJim]

Unofficially post 100 in this thread

 

[CbusCuse]

I can’t believe that we landed him. As of Saturday it was apparently down to Michigan, FSU and Oregon. Fran is definitely the man. I hope we hang onto him for signing day. Go Cuse!

I don’t think those reports were accurate. I think they misinterpreted their information. I think SU was always in it but not thought to be because of the official visit situation.

 

[orangencpolice]

I don’t think those reports were accurate. I think they misinterpreted their information. I think SU was always in it but not thought to be because of the official visit situation.

Not upset about it in the least. Just glad we landed him after seeing this on his instagram. Still shocked.

 

[JarHeadJim]

Not upset about it in the least. Just glad we landed him after seeing this on his instagram.

 

[llandz]

Not upset about it in the least. Just glad we landed him after seeing this on his instagram. Still shocked.

I think these recruits like playing all of us. And I personally don't blame them.

 

[CbusCuse]

Not upset about it in the least. Just glad we landed him after seeing this on his instagram. Still shocked.

That is interesting. Hadn’t seen that video. Maybe he was blowing smoke as I’m pretty sure we were still in it at that point. Unless he wasn’t listing us because we didn’t have enough NIL on the table at that point for him to count us in. Trying to light a fire for SU NIL?

 

[Sudano]

Ok Einstein you have seen a limited sample set. As I said cautiously optimistic but he has only attempted more than 7 passes in a game once. Once! You haven’t seen him play a full quarter more than once. He may be insanely good or he may not but you don’t have an accurate sample size yet. Nowhere did I say anything about Collins or Carney or any other quarterback I spoke specifically to Angeli and a limited sample set. I saw Zack Mahoney throw for 440 and 5 tuddies against a P5 once … can Angeli perform for an entire season? You have no clue nor do I, but we may soon find out.

I don't look at numbers, sample sets, or single games, I look at talent, mechanics, athleticism, success rates vs good opponents over time. Small or large sample size. Talent is not a statistical endeavor. It's called extrapolation. If you can't tell the visual difference in Angeli's talent and success rates vs Mahoney's you have proven my point. Compare and show me all the poor games and poor drop backs for Angeli and Mahoney and then answer me.

 

[TexanMark]

I can’t believe that we landed him. As of Saturday it was apparently down to Michigan, FSU and Oregon. Fran is definitely the man. I hope we hang onto him for signing day. Go Cuse!

That was a feint

 

[OttoinGrotto]

I doubt that happens. At 6’-2” 206 lbs, I feel like even if he has a really good season, NFL teams will want to see him perform well as a starter for more than 1 season. Unless he had prototypical height and great duel threat abilities to boot, they need to see more proof before drafting him. Unless you show serious running skills, it seems very hard to get drafted at this point.

Look, all I'm saying is I was making jokes about Angeli being Cuse and people were all like "he's not even in the portal" and "we already have Collins" and "he's already stuck around at Notre Dame as the backup QB" and it seemed impossible and yet somehow I manifested it anyway, and now you're telling me you're betting against what I can make possible?

 

[sufan59]

Look, all I'm saying is I was making jokes about Angeli being Cuse and people were all like "he's not even in the portal" and "we already have Collins" and "he's already stuck around at Notre Dame as the backup QB" and it seemed impossible and yet somehow I manifested it anyway, and now you're telling me you're betting against what I can make possible?

 

[Qbobby]

Look, all I'm saying is I was making jokes about Angeli being Cuse and people were all like "he's not even in the portal" and "we already have Collins" and "he's already stuck around at Notre Dame as the backup QB" and it seemed impossible and yet somehow I manifested it anyway, and now you're telling me you're betting against what I can make possible?

 

[orangencpolice]

I think these recruits like playing all of us. And I personally don't blame them.

At my age (53), it isn’t hard for them to play me. Especially when he was supposed to announce at 9. I kept thinking I was gong to stay up late to watch him commit to Michigan. Glad I got to see he picked the University of Syracuse. Let’s go!

 

[wfschrec]

I don't look at numbers, sample sets, or single games, I look at talent, mechanics, athleticism, success rates vs good opponents over time. Small or large sample size. Talent is not a statistical endeavor. It's called extrapolation. If you can't tell the visual difference in Angeli's talent and success rates vs Mahoney's you have proven my point. Compare and show me all the poor games and poor drop backs for Angeli and Mahoney and then answer me.

If Angeli is so spectacular why couldn’t he overcome a very very mediocre passer in Reilly Lenard? Your key phrase was “over time” my point remains he hasn’t played enough over time. This really isn’t that difficult. But as a mechanics expert I’m sure you can explain why he couldn’t beat out Lenard who was average at best as a passer. You can have great mechanics and still not live up to expectations (see Devito, Tommy). Give the guy a few games before we decide he can walk on water.

 

[sufan59]

I think these recruits like playing all of us. And I personally don't blame them.

This one was for the shock factor as well. Make them believe you won’t be different until you turn out to be by picking the place that people see as second class when you had first class options. Truth is we are not acting and investing like a second class program anymore, that’s why we even had a seat at the table even with Fran Brown’s and others in the program relationships that closed the deal. Now if they decide to treat Russell differently, we are all watching and can call them out since the reason why will be obvious. There is a balance to playing the marketing game and just winning on the field of course.

 

[hoopsupstate]

I can’t believe that we landed him. As of Saturday it was apparently down to Michigan, FSU and Oregon. Fran is definitely the man. I hope we hang onto him for signing day. Go Cuse!

He said he made up his mind to SU a couple of days before his announcement.

 

[Jake]

Happy we landed him obviously, but FB recruiting is deep waters. Would not be surprised if some reps of CR’s may have told some white lies.

Would not be the first time. Doesn’t make him a bad kid. The pressure is immense and sometimes the easiest route is to tell people what they want to hear just to get the phone to stop ringing,

 

[sufan59]

Happy we landed him obviously, but FB recruiting is deep waters. Would not be surprised if some reps of CR’s may have told some white lies.

Would not be the first time. Doesn’t make him a bad kid. The pressure is immense and sometimes the easiest route is to tell people what they want to hear just to get the phone to stop ringing,

Which is smart if they did. You can already see the campaigning trying to devalue what this really was. Rate these players and publicize them based on merit not politics based on the current brand value of who they actually choose. This does matter, it can have direct impact on the players ability to market themselves for NIL. From the outside, CRs team is playing this right.

 

[Scotch]

Look, all I'm saying is I was making jokes about Angeli being Cuse and people were all like "he's not even in the portal" and "we already have Collins" and "he's already stuck around at Notre Dame as the backup QB" and it seemed impossible and yet somehow I manifested it anyway, and now you're telling me you're betting against what I can make possible?

You manifested it so hard. And we thank you for that.

 

[EnviroSciGuy]

Someone PLEASE wrap the Big Blue banner on a dumpster and POST THE PHOTO!!

I'm sure this won't be the last recruiting battle that goes down to the wire with Michigan. Keep that powder dry for when we knock them out of the playoffs

 

[OttoinGrotto]

If Angeli is so spectacular why couldn’t he overcome a very very mediocre passer in Reilly Lenard? Your key phrase was “over time” my point remains he hasn’t played enough over time. This really isn’t that difficult. But as a mechanics expert I’m sure you can explain why he couldn’t beat out Lenard who was average at best as a passer. You can have great mechanics and still not live up to expectations (see Devito, Tommy). Give the guy a few games before we decide he can walk on water.

Because Angeli was never supposed to be the answer for Notre Dame. They were never going to look at him that way.

In the portal world where Notre Dame thinks they're a contender they will only start at QB a 5 star they recruited, or a top portal guy. Their program and donors will view anything else as a failure of the roster and coaching staff.

Angeli hit his ceiling at ND.

 

[CNYGuy]

That is interesting. Hadn’t seen that video. Maybe he was blowing smoke as I’m pretty sure we were still in it at that point. Unless he wasn’t listing us because we didn’t have enough NIL on the table at that point for him to count us in. Trying to light a fire for SU NIL?

I get the sense he just wanted to surprise people. Can’t blame him, this is the biggest announcement he gets to make aside from maybe declaring for the draft (although those are rarely surprises).

I’m basing this off him saying he made the decision a few days ago, but all caps tweeted he hasn’t committed yet last night when some burner accounts (and our idiot student journalists who believed them in a rush to be first rather than right) said he was Cuse bound.

 

[CbusCuse]

If Angeli is so spectacular why couldn’t he overcome a very very mediocre passer in Reilly Lenard? Your key phrase was “over time” my point remains he hasn’t played enough over time. This really isn’t that difficult. But as a mechanics expert I’m sure you can explain why he couldn’t beat out Lenard who was average at best as a passer. You can have great mechanics and still not live up to expectations (see Devito, Tommy). Give the guy a few games before we decide he can walk on water.

I agree we don't have a huge sample size yet to know what he will be but we do have some good positive indicators.

But regarding Leonard, he had the experience and had proven he was a good QB. There was more to Leonard’s game than passing. He had a really good seasons in 2022 with Duke and 2024 with ND but got injured in 2023 so his stats were not up to par that season. He was a very solid college QB.

His 2024 stats with ND were passing for 2860 yds on 67% completion percentage with 21 TD’s to 8 Int’s. Rushing he was over 900 yds for 4.9/carry with 17 TD’s. Adding his rushing into equation that is 3770 yds and his rushing TD’s into equation that is 38 TD’s to 8 Int’s.