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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 1293926, member: 2651"] you keep banging this drum, but isn't this - for all intents and purposes - the way it already effectively works? I mean, the Power 5 conferences already have substantial recruiting advantages. The top talent is already split among 66 schools (more like 15-20). Power 5 schools seldom lose recruiting battles to non Power 5 schools. Sure, if the break away happens those recruiting advantages get more pronounced, and some kids around the margins will find their way to Power 5 schools who otherwise might end up at a UCF or SMU or whatever. But it isn't going to drastically alter the recruiting landscape for Syracuse. The issue is Syracuse relative to other P5 schools, and more specifically to the ACC. Syracuse is already at or near the bottom of ACC recruiting. The hard fact is that Syracuse has significant, built in, recruiting disadvantages. Syracuse is located in a place that seldom produces local top talent, and is surrounded by states that, more or less, produce little. Like I said in another thread, the demographics are against Syracuse. Population is going to the south and the west, where high school football is much more popular and elite talent is developed. Unless that kid is a legacy, Syracuse faces loooonnnnggggg odds enticing that kid to look at Syracuse. It's great that a Robert Washington comes along every now and then, and I hope we land him, but he is an anomaly. If you are GT, with a crystal clear vision of who they are, who they want to be, and the exact attributes in the athletes they need to run their off kilter system, then it makes sense that rankings would be misleading. Rankings look at kids in a global sense and do not attempt to adjust based on fit in a particular system. Thus, a kid who may be middling in overall attributes may fit perfectly into what GT is attempting to do, thus his overall impact on a winning GT team is understated in recruiting ratings. However, as it stands, Syracuse has no such vision, no such definition (at least on offense). They need to develop this quickly, as Syracuse's only shot at being consistently competitive is having a crystal clear idea of who they are, and recruiting to that. [/QUOTE]

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