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Another day, another Florida recruit choosing the Orange. Two days ago, 6’3’’, 230-pound Dana Levine, from Hallandale High School in Hallandale, Fla., verbally committed to Syracuse. Levine’s other offers were from UAB and Alcorn State. He is the first defensive end to verbally commit to the 2015 class.
Like most of the eight Orange 2015 verbals, Levine is somewhat of an unknown. At the time of his commitment only rivals.com had information on him. The websites grades him as a 2-star player.
In terms of numbers, the Orange coaching staff is doing a great job of keeping up with ACC competition; eight verbal commits is solid for late May. However, it is a bit concerning that Syracuse is the best offer by a long shot for most of these players.
Hopefully, George McDonald is actually uncovering all of this Florida talent, and other schools now have these players on their radars—as opposed to having already passed over them.
Levine’s tape shows impressive speed and some bone-crunching tackles. He has a knack for getting to the quarterback which is an area the Orange definitely need some help with. Another encouraging sign is that he has gained 45 pounds since his freshman season. At 230 pounds he will still need to put on muscle if he wants to play defensive end for Syracuse, but his weight gain shows how hard of a worker he is. Levine could also prove to be a versatile player for SU. Scott Shafer could play Levine as a linebacker because of his quickness.
With eight verbal commits, the Orange has filled out about one-third of its 2015 recruiting class, if no one abandons ship. These players will have the responsibility of transitioning Syracuse from an average ACC opponent to a feared conference contender.
Posted by: Connor Morrissette
11 responses to “Defensive End Dana Levine Commits to Syracuse”
I hope Mr. Levine can find a niche on the CUSE defense.If he’s a legit 6’3″ on the way to 6’5″ and can grow to 265 lbs, he’ll be a good DE candidate. If he’s really 6’2″ and it doesn’t look like he’ll grow anymore, then the staff hopefully will point him in the direction of LB.
Yeah, I know..FREENEY was only 6’1″ but a “dwight” only come along just so very often.
One area that concerns me today is our DBs.
Right now we have 3 JRs and 2 sophs and 1 of those is Eskridge who could be gone after this year. We did recruit some 4-5 DBs in the last class but asking them to step in 2 years out of high school may be a stretch. Maybe we’ll round up 2 JUCO CBs that are 6’2″ and 195 each.
Have a good Memorial Day weekend folks.
Thanks to our vets.
By all accounts Levine is said to be a quality recruit. Its not at all surprising that many kids are not rated properly or at all. After all we are talking about coaches here. Not exactly mensa minds and unless a prospect happens to show something obvious regarding their ability its easy to see how they can be ignored.
Watched his tape!!! he does look decent, but his weight does not look 230 at all!! Would be a better OLB than DE!!
Chris-Levine if he played in upstate NY he’d be a low 3 star-NOW!! He might become a 3 star yet, but services are pretty damn close to getting them right. And COACHES are not the main source of insight into a players talent. These people enjoy what they do and hell I’d like to give it a shot to. So don’t down play their efforts!! But again we’ll see. This kid is just not the quality you want to build a better program. But hell HCSS has all these so called talented players interested in SU yet he verbals these other lesser known players??
Conner “a feared conference contender”!! Calm down you sound like RON here!! Remember you still have Clemson, FSU, Miami ,ND, Pitt, BC and other decent teams equal to SU or better than SU to play yet!! It starts with getting good talent in at SU. SU is getting better talent but not the a$$-kicking type as of yet. Win and they will come!!
DO NOT FORGET THE KIDS OF PSABUSEDU!! THE NCAA DID!!
The story is a flat out lie. Only Rivals had information on him? Both Scout and 247 had stories prior to his commitment. Does the Fizz just make it up as they go? What a joke
Terry,,is this years talent lower rated than the early verbal’s from last year up till now? Seem’s this yr were getting numbers instead of the quality though the recruits appear of decent quality just not as highly sought after as last year I think! Remember how well FHCDM did with UR talent though!These guy’s may elevate their stars like some of last yrs crop of recruits.
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