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[QUOTE="CuseOnly, post: 1182482, member: 2804"]
Do you really believe that McDonald forgot how to recruit 4/5 star talent after he got here?  He was recruiting 4 star talent at Miami, Arkansas and Minnesota as well as Stanford.  He was named by Ro Vals as one of the top 25 recruiters in the nation.

Marrone was also named by the SEC as one of the top recruiters in the SEC by his peer coaches during his tenure in that league as an assistant.  Shafer is a great recruiter.

These guys didn't forget how to recruit when they got here, the fact that they are great recruiters didn't change when they arrived here at SU.

The problem is not the RECRUITERS it's the school they are recruiting for that makes it difficult.  SU has a lot of things to overcome, you know what those things are and I am not going to list them for you.

You act as if these guys aren't going after 4/5 star talent.  Believe me, they are...the problem is that they are not landing them.  The question here is, do you waste a ton of time recruiting said 4/5 star talent with very little chance of landing them and neglect the kids you have a chance with that can help your program?  There is a finite amount of time to recruit, where do you allocate your resources?

Take a look back at our recruiting classes before this staff got here.  You will find that half of our classes before were made up of mostly 2/3 star talent.  During this staff's tenure it is all 3 star talent with a couple 2's and a couple 4's.  That is improvement, now they have to shoot for all 3/4 star talent which will take time and wins.
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