Well that's what happens when you have journalists that know nothing about football recruiting, let alone football for that matter, covering the team. At least they stopped trying to give grades to recruits, what a trainwreck that was.
"Syracuse can't compete with Alabama for recruits" - well no sheit Sherlock, I could write an article about that for free. And why would they be focusing their time on covering a kid that decommitted 8 months ago and isn't coming here? Why not work on pounding the ground to find out about the new kids that seem to be popping up daily that we haven't heard about? Oh wait, why ask that, it's easier to just sit on your hands and wait for one of the recruiting services to break a story or come up with a name and either borrow their information or then do an interview.