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[QUOTE="GoSU96, post: 876214, member: 114"]
Times change.   A lot of those kids from suburban upstate districts aren't playing football anymore, and the urban districts don't have the money for their programs.
 
Look at all those Section 3 and 4 kids on that roster.   This year with Macky and Nick you had two Section 3 kids starting on the OL, which shows you can still get players, but the numbers just aren't there today.
 
Demographically by default a state this size should have a good number of kids that should be D-1 quality, but either they aren't playing the game or aren't being developed.  
 
That's why Marrone's effort to pull a handful of NYC players, however raw, made sense.  You can't build a whole roster like that, but you can have a portion of your roster like that.   The athletic ability to compete is there, but you need great teachers on your staff to develop it.
 
NYS can provide linemen on both sides, this years roster shows that, and you can get 2 or 3 speed guys a year that have measurables as good as anywhere in the country, and there will be a handful of backs, QB's, and WR's that can play every year.  But when you look there are 20 to 30 kids signed by D-1 schools, not triple digits like Fla, Texas, and Cali.
 
What is shocking is the lack of LB's and TE's out of NY.  
 
8 to 10 NYS guys would make sense, but that would mean really taking a large majority of the best kids in the state, but they need to fill out each class with Florida, PA, NJ and midwest guys.
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