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Message: [QUOTE="Melancer46, post: 4465192, member: 1674"] I think the culture around staying close to home has probably changed too relative to the old days. Even just look at the list of "locals" you alluded to before and where they actually went to high school: Gayle- Utah Starling- Indiana Huerter- New York Stewart- Indiana T Bryant- West Virginia Randolph- Pennsylvania Huntley Hatfield- Florida/Pennsylvania Mulvey- Connecticut Cockburn- Virginia Lonnie Walker- Pennsylvania Huerter was the only kid that stayed in New York through high school. A couple others stuck it out at their non-NY high school but most were transferring to greener pastures with more visibility as is. This isn't limited to us either. Looking at the top 20 recruits from the current freshman class, these are the guys that stayed local: [LIST] [*]Nick Smith [*]GG Jackson [*]Keyonte George [*]Amari Bailey [*]Arterio Morris [*]Adem Bona - if you consider him local; he grew up in Nigeria and Turkey until he moved to California a couple years ago [/LIST] Our recruiting in terms of landing highly rated kids was great up until 2017. From 2003-2017, here's where the 4 star or better NYers went (according to 24/7): [LIST] [*]Syracuse - 6 (out of 62) [*]UConn - 5 [*]St. John's - 4 [*]Seton Hall - 4 [*]West Virginia - 3 [*]Virginia - 3 [*]Pittsburgh - 3 [*]Louisville - 3 [*]A bunch of schools with 1 or 2 [/LIST] We haven't landed a 4+ star recruit from NY since the 2012 class when we got Coleman. Maybe coincidentally, that was our last class before our move to the ACC; it's not lost on me that if you focus on the time period we were in the Big East, 11 schools landed at least 2 NYers and 9 of those 11 were Big East schools. Since the Big East crumbled, NY recruits have been spread around with no real pattern. The other notable thing is that NY just doesn't have highly rated recruits for the most part anymore. In the glory years, NY averaged 4-5 4+ star recruits. Now we're lucky to have more than 2. Generally speaking, if kids in NY are good at basketball nowadays, they leave in high school and never return. [/QUOTE]

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