Syracuse fans need to keep some composure ahead of Washington's upcoming decision.
This afternoon at 3:00 p.m., running back recruit Robert Washington makes his long-awaited commitment, and the build-up has been unlike anything I've seen in Syracuse Orange football recruiting.
This isn't SU's first recent go-around with a blue chip player. Just in the last few years, we've had the Ishaq Williams saga and Ebenezer Ogundeko's decision, but neither of those recruitments helped kick into gear a massive campaign about restoring the No. 44, or anything of the sort. Their recruitments, while extremely high profile and more local to Syracuse, did not bring the type of attention, or the sheer number of articles, tweets, message boards posts that Washington's has.