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Message: [QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 2724462, member: 6798"] Every year recently, like 2014 onward, it seems that UVA, ND, Hopkins, and UNC get praised as having top recruiting classes filled with top 10 "five star" type guys and yet every year we are basically evenly matched with those schools, despite having far less top 100 and top 20 names. MD and Duke also usually get more praise and five star guys than us for their classes, about the same as the 4 schools I just mentioned, but they actually tend to outperform us when the season finishes up (in MD's case they always outperform us). Then a school like Denver seems to have about the same amount of names or even slightly less than us each year and yet they always outperform us as well. All of the Ivey's seem to about match us as far as having a smattering of names across the top 100 with a handful of top recruits but, except for Brown that one year, and obviously this past year, we tend to outperform them all. Same goes for the rest of the Big 10. They have a handful in the top 100 like us and we outperform them (besides OSU in 2017). The point here is these inside lacrosse lists/recruit rankings never come close to telling the whole story. As the ivorytower guy said above, we would be bottom of the Acc and out of the tourney if they did. Their level of analysis is weak compared to that of other writers in sports that generate more money and attention. My main concern is the depth in local talent dropping as the population in Upstate NY continues to age and decrease, since that has been the ace up our sleeve each year that we have a truly good team. That, along with the increased parity, could spell trouble going forward. [/QUOTE]

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