Syracuse football head coach Dino Babers has officially arrived in year No. 3. No, it’s not the 10-3 record or the bowl win that did it, it’s the recruiting.
SU has *unofficially* locked in their first five-star recruit since 2001 (more on that later). This man picked the Orange over four other offers and interest from the Alabama Crimson Tide, per 247 Sports.
We dug through the record books on a year-by-year basis and the first five-star recruit that popped up was five-star quarterback Cecil Howard out of Mckeesport, Pennsylvania.
He was supposed to change the program and maintain the excellence that had preceded him throughout the 1980s and 90s.