Part One: Plant head coach talks Culpepper

Syracuse University picked up a big commitment yesterday in three-star quarterback Rex Culpepper, Tampa (Fla.) Plant. After missing out on a slew of quarterback prospects in the past two months, Syracuse was able to finally land one of the most promising quarterbacks in the 2016 class.

Culpepper, a top 15 quarterback according to Rivals, is a great fit for the Syracuse program. CuseConfidential.com caught up with his Plant High School Football Coach, Robert Weiner and according to his coach, Syracuse is getting one heck of a prospect.

"We are really super excited because we believe that this is really a great, great fit. A lot of the things that Coach Shafer seems to value are the same things that we value in our program and Rex is a tremendous representative of what that is for us and we know that Rex will be for Syracuse as well."

With excitement in his voice, Coach Weiner explained further what Syracuse would be getting from a football stand point.

"What that is specifically is first and foremost is that he is a tremendous player. He is 6-foot-3, 225 pounds and is incredibly strong. As he has gotten stronger he has matured into his body in terms of his body control so he is equally effective as a passer and a runner. I don't know if you could necessarily call him a duel threat because that isn't what we do in our program, but he will probably get somewhere between seven and ten carries a game between actual plays that I call and scramble situations. Then there is his arm, he has a very powerful arm, he is a kid that can throw the ball seventy yards down the field but is also a kid who has grown in accuracy. I haven't come across many kids that are as coachable as he is and who wants to learn and get better. He is a tinkerer which is one of the things I love most about him as his coach. We will get in (to the film) and he will just start tinkering with the other team's defense."

It is everything that his coaches mentions above that makes Culpepper such a highly sought after recruit. Syracuse Head Coach Scott Shafer has always said that he not only wants talented players, but he wants coachable, high class players to represent Syracuse. According to his current high school coach, that is exactly what Syracuse is getting. And coming from such a highly successful high school with the pedigree that Plant has, especially at developing and producing high division one talent, Syracuse fans around should be ecstatic at the prospect Coach Lester found for the Orange.

"He not only comes from an NFL lineage with his family but he comes from quite a quarterback lineage in our football family as well. We had Robert Marve who went to Miami (FL) and then Purdue, we had Aaron Murray who went to Georgia and is now with the Kansas City Chiefs, we had Philip Healy who went to Alabama who is now the starter at Toledo and then we had James Few who was and academic all-American who went on to be the starter at Cornell before he tore his labrum. So we have had four quarterbacks in a row who have gone on to be all-Americans of some sort and all four of them led us to a state championship so Rex is preparing himself to be the next in line."

That is a very impressive quarterback lineage that Rex is following in at Plant High School, but he is most certainly up to the challenge.