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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 5511550, member: 4819"] Thank you for the insight, it's much appreciated. The March stuff is interesting. When the coaching change happened a few years ago, I think it was pretty universal that we wanted March to stay as the OC. I've never met the guy and can't speak to how he is on the sidelines (the Cornell fiasco two years ago probably didn't help his rep). That said, he did coach English and Stevens at Princeton - or at least recruited them - and they choose to come to Syracuse when they probably could have gone anywhere. If they had a problem with him at Princeton, I doubt they would have chosen to follow him to Syracuse. Not saying I agree or disagree with your assessment, but just adding a data point. Also they have been able to recruit midfielders pretty well. Eight four star middies (five ranked top 100) in the last three cycles, and that's not including Kittelberger, Sweeney and Quillard who are four stars and ranked in the top 100 but predicted to play SSDM. It's just the attack position is ... lacking to say the least and I don't know why. When the 2027 class gets on campus, they will have Anderson, O'Farrell, Myer, Peck and maybe Kraftson (I don't really think Bucktooth or Banks Jr will see meaningful minutes). That's not a lot of guys! And right now they have three guys for three classes if you count Kruger. Notre Dame are bringing in nine over the span of three classes (not to mention most are five stars). Again, not that mad we can't get the five star players, but why aren't they bringing in anybody? So what is the plan here? I remember last year watching as the "Big Board" withered away with four star recruits committing elsewhere. Seems we are having a replay of that this year as there are only seven uncommitted four star attackmen according to IL. I think it's perfectly reasonable not to expect a hoard of five star attackmen lining up to play for SU, but to seemingly not bring anyone in is something I can't fully grasp. Are they counting on the transfer portal? That seems really risky given you don't know who will be available, and also the other big schools will be in on those players as well, because, of course. There are really good players who weren't five stars, or ranked or whatever. This strategy, or whatever you want to call it doesn't really seem sustainable. Last point, but I do worry if the staff is focusing on some players who aren't attainable for whatever reason. It's easy to play Monday morning quarterback, but should they have put more effort into grabbing any of the top 100 attackmen Penn State grabbed, or the like, instead of going after some of these five stars? If a kid is looking at any Ivy League like Woods, should you move on? It sounds like Stankavage has serious roots at UNC, Matthews had his brother at Penn State. I just can't help but think they missed out on other targets further down the list by going after some of these five star players. Again, hindsight is 20/20. [/QUOTE]

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