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[QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 1909043, member: 230"]
BC, Penn St., Rutgirls and Syracuse are all no longer relevant and UCon has never been relevant.  Penn St was held together by a legendary coach.  SUNY Buffalo does not play big time football and neither does any other Boston or NYC area school.  Name another large state school without a serious football team?  NYU does not even field a team.  All of this can be traced to the fact that football is not as popular in the NE as it is in every other part of the country.  The rest of the country lives for football.  Without an adequate local supply of talent none of the NE schools might ever become relevant again.  Pitt is doing OK, but nothing great.  It is no coincidence that it is closer to more fertile recruiting grounds.

We used to skim recruits from the excess talent coming out of Florida but that window is closing with the resurgence of the two late comer large Florida public schools.

The only way to turn things around for any of these schools is to recruit better talent and the only way to do that is to attract talent from outside the NE.  There are only two ways to do this: win with the talent you have, or hire a legacy coach that will attract recruits.  The former is not impossible but it is unlikely, and the handful of legacy coaches would have no interest in any of these schools unless they happened to be their alma mater.

Despite the best efforts of a good coach like Babers, it is possible that there will be no turn-around.   Too early to throw in the towel but not too early to face the reality that the odds are against us.  Neither history nor conference affiliation might be able to compensate for the fact that the NE does not produce enough talent.
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