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[QUOTE="Quazzum69, post: 768882, member: 2653"]
There will never be a northeast football power again.

It doesn't matter how much SU spends on facilities, there are just simply not enough good players to recruit. The biggest difference is that Saint John's is located near very good basketball players, unlike SU football.

Consider the 2014 top 100 ESPN football recruits:

Louisiana, a state with a population of 4.602 million in 2012, had [B]NINE [/B]top 100 football recruits. [B]NINE[/B].
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania with a combined population of nearly 47 million had [B]TWO[/B] top 100 recruits. In other words, Louisiana produces roughly 50 times more top 100 football players per capita than the entire Northeast.

This does not even include the 101-300 ranked players (which New Jersey has a lot of) and the other extremely fertile gulf states or California. There is simply no way SU steals the best players from any of the southern or west coast teams that allows kids to play at their dream school in much better weather in front of way more fans. Any facility that SU could build, another school probably already has, times 10.

The north can probably realistically support just a handful of really good teams in today's world. SU would basically have to overtake Ohio State and Michigan, as well as the iconic Penn State and the up-and-comers like Northwestern and Rutgers.
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