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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 5073114, member: 363"] Impressed with Fran's approach, recruiting locally, not just the top kids in NYS/ NJ that everyone is after but the developmental kids. He's also focused on keeping every legit P4 type player within 60-90 miles here as well but he's also going to take some shots with kids with solid measurables from local spots as well. He's also picking and choosing what legit 4 and even 5 stars he's going to try and recruit to Syracuse as well from all over. He's really keeping a nice balance and has figured out what will actually work at Syracuse in a hurry. Not really surprising that a guy who is heralded as the best recruiter in the country knows how to do exactly that but I think he knows what it will take to build really solid roster at Syracuse. It takes some coaches a few years to figure this out if they ever do. I did not want a coach hired that was going to be SHOCKED at what it would take to recruit at Syracuse and what the local market would produce every year. Fran knew because he had been to all these places before at prior jobs and he grew up in NJ. Prior Relationships were already in place. He wasn't an NFL guy or a college journeyman with no real ties to the Northeast. You put his stops at Rutgers and Temple and blend it with the stop at a powerhouse like Georgia and you get a recruiting buzzsaw. You also get a coach that embraces and accepts the current landscape of NIL and transfer portal as opposed to constantly complaining about it and the results speak for themselves If he and the staff can gameplan and win 8-9 out of the gate the sky is the limit. It's a huge ask to win 9-10 the first year though, IMO. There's going to be some wrong turns along the way but what he has accomplished so far borders on the absurd from a roster rebuild perspective. [/QUOTE]

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