You may have noticed that every so often we discuss how Syracuse tends to get in on a recruit early only to see bigger schools move in later and steal them away.
It’s a bit early to say, but the pattern is repeating, or at least the first part of it is: Syracuse identified Jalil Bethea early on and has focused on him for some time now.
But he has, in recruiting parlance, blown up, and Duke and Kentucky are now looking at the rising star.
Syracuse is also seeing Miami, Villanova, and Kansas sniffing around and of course NIL changes things, too.