The 2016 recruiting class is mostly finished and pretty successful. By all accounts, it’s one of the better classes Syracuse football has landed in the past decade. Although there are no flagship 4 or 5 star talents, there are some pretty exciting names on the list such as Moe Neal, Rex Culpepper, Michael Clark, Jaquwan Nelson, and Kenneth Ruff.
But even with the solid recruiting class, we as fans need to temper our expectations. Not only is this an entirely new coaching staff, but it’s an entirely new scheme on offense and defense.
Offensively, we’re going from a slow paced, run-first, read option style of play to a crazy up-tempo, spread offense with a much more balanced attack that focuses a lot of throws downfield and runs up the gut.