Deon Goggins

California native Trevon Trejo looks to follow in the footsteps of Deon Goggins and Markus Pierce-Brewster as a top west coast pass rusher for the Orange.

The Daily Orange debates who's fault it is that Syracuse football is struggling. Doug Marrone or the players. The truth is, it doesn't matter whose to blame because it's Doug Marrone's job.

Meet a huge wild card in Marrone's new defensive scheme: Deon Goggins.

There have been many players better than Gerry McNamara. But how many humans ever played better than McNamara during the best week of his life? His four-game performance in the 2008 Big East tournament was more extraordinary than Billy Owens' entire career.

While it might not be the same level as the Syracuse - Akron connection, there are a lot of connections and coincidental relationships that give Saturday's game way more subplots that it probably deserves.

Few SU players have garnered the fanfare that Deon Goggins did during his recruitment. He's from California. He has a ridiculous sack dance/nickname combo. He makes awesome proclamations about his style of play. He wants to like, quadruple-major in four different colleges at the University. He wears #13 as a D-Lineman. "Diesel" is the total package.

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