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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5510580, member: 4819"]
Bewildering to be honest. I know Matthews was a midfielder technically, so he wouldn't have directly solved that issue, but I can't really tell what is going on with that position. Kruger may be an attackman and be incorrectly listed on the IL Database, but the group seems impossibly shallow, especially considering that the big names in the ACC are grabbing multiple five star attackmen each year. We can't seem to get even one. I don't get it. Especially with at least two and maybe even three spots open next year, that should be a golden recruiting pitch. What is going on?

Not that these recruiting services are perfect about everything, but these are the only top 100 offensive players left in the IL 100:

83. A Brandon Sim - Chaminade (NY)
85. M James Riches - Valor Christian (CO)  
88. M Barrett Mullahy - Fairfield Prep (CT) 
93. M Sam Fox - Chaminade (NY)
99. M Conor Cook - St. Paul's (MD)

Additionally, there are seven uncommitted four star attackman and eight uncommitted four star midfielders.  NLF also ranks Manhasset teammates Rocco Spallina (three star on IL) and Nolan Wieczorek (four star) and Sam Coluzzi (three star). They all play for Team 91 so there might be some club-based bias going on there.
 
The fact that Matthews is going to Penn State is not a surprise, but it stings considering they got some pretty talented players in Bladon and Richardson, two players I had my eye on.

Sorry to be negative. I really like what I've seen from the players SU has gotten, but it really feels like a missed opportunity this recruiting cycle.  Feeling pretty frustrated if I am being honest. Matthews would have made up for a lot.
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