Uh, I guess we forgot to do a hello for the second commit, and lowest-ranked, of Michigan's four St. Frances Academy prospects. He was also the seventh player to join the class at the time, and the first OL of what's now up to four. Our reasoning for waiting at the time was sound: nobody had anything on him. Until last year Mazzccua was playing for a small school in Philadelphia and Temple was his only offer. A transfer to Biff Poggi's mega-program, and the release of his junior film in early 2019, led to a Syracuse offer on January 24th. Michigan followed the next day—the day teammate Osman Savage committed—and Mazzccua made it official a month later, following an unofficial visit in February.
A bunch of scouting was dumped in the aftermath, all of which described a huge, agile, sushi raw mountain somewhere in the realm of 6'6"/290 (Rivals when he committed) or 6'5"/335 (24/7). There's a little more out there now, so let's play the feud for him, finally.
GURU RATINGS
Rivals |
ESPN |
24/7 |
24/7 Comp |
3*, 5.7, #51 OT,
#22 MD |
3*, 79, #46 OT,
#66 East |
3*, 85, #89 OT,
#31 MD, #1019 Ovr |
3*, 0.8622, #65 OT,
#23 MD, #757 Ovr |
☆ rtg: 3.61 |
3.70 |
3.44 |
3.62 |
None of these existed when he committed 20 weeks ago, so everybody's playing catch-up, and that means rankings in the "Michigan probably knows what they're doing?" range. Rivals ignored him until February 22.
[Hit THE JUMP for scouting from those two sites, video, and the rest.]
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