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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 1517606, member: 430"]
It really matters where the new guy would be coming from.  Ano likes to throw Narduzzi's name around - well Narduzzi went from Mich St. (where he spent 7 years) to Pitt, two schools that have overlapping recruiting areas.  Pitt recruits Ohio, PA, NY, NJ heavily - so does Mich. St.  The three highest profile recruits he brought in at Pitt in the 2015 class after he took over were Anthony McKee, a  Ohio LB that he recruited at Mich St. who OV'ed to Mich St., Saleem Brightwell, a NJ LB that he recruited at Mich St., and Jay Stocker, a PA S that we wanted badly but was going to Pitt barring the school exploding.  It wasn't like he recruited these kids overnight to there.  Those were relationships he built over years.

I think Narduzzi's biggest win was keeping their 2015 class together, so I agree with Ano on that.  But I'm not that floored by the additional recruits he added because he walked into a situation where he had birds in the hand.

Keys to really seeing an uptick in recruiting or at a minimum salvaging a class to the positive are where the HC has been previously and name cache'.  And on the latter, we're not hiring Jim Harbaugh so we can all forget about that.  Syracuse is going to live and die based on relationships, and that's not going to change whether the HC is Shafer or the latest flavor of the month.
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