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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 3592233, member: 5058"]
There is some skewed statistics. The fact that the 7% of FBS schools produce 10% of the NFL players doesn't take PSU into appropriate account and makes no qualification about how many of that 10% are from Florida, Texas, of California for example.

Some of it is fair, but you just enlarged the recruiting range again now to include the DMV. The OP is about Dino and NY. By your numbers, there are about 7 per year (7.5) in the NFL from NY each of the last 6 years. NFL level players will pretty typically draw more attention than the average diamond in the rough. That means we are competing with a lot more schools for them (Curtis Samuel, Ishaq Williams, Ebenezer Ogundeko, for examples) and the ones from other states get the same attention from the factories (Michigan had or has about 12 NJ kids on its roster, one that included Rashan Gary and Jabrill Peppers recently). I don't see any way SU takes 3 of 6 NFL level players (50%) that the state of NY manages to produce without recruiting about 20 a year and hoping to develop them. That is not a good way to be competitive in the ACC.

Twenty years ago, Minkah Fitzpatrick might have gone to SU, but now he goes to Alabama. Ever since P was fired and we lost Ray Rice really it has been the case, but more importantly, NY isn't producing the same talent. Best players from NY in recent history are Gronk, Saquon Barkley and the McCourty twins.
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