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[QUOTE="Deuga, post: 1909784, member: 5551"]
I thought it might be useful to compare the NE to the Pacific Northwest.  Neither area produces a ton of star quality players.  According to one of the recruiting websites there are currently the following numbers of athletes in the NE and Pacific NW for 2017:

[INDENT][INDENT]5 Stars    4 Stars   3 Stars  Power 5 Schools[/INDENT][/INDENT]
NE                 0               4          26               2
Pac NW        1                7          29               4

I'm excluding NJ and PA from NE.  Pac NW includes Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

The Pac NW has always seemed to be able to produce one powerhouse team/year and no more than one.  Lately it's been Oregon but this year it's UW.  The NE can do the same because we've got only slightly less potential recruits locally than the Pac NW but half the number of local Power 5 schools.  Plus Pac NW has Boise State to contend with, the NE presently has nothing like a Boise State.

It seems if we ought to be able to recruit 25% of every class from the NE and have an inside track on the occasional 4 star that comes along locally.  However, others are right, we recruit everywhere.  As others have said, you don't need the recruits in your backyard, you simply need compelling reasons for recruits to want to come to SU.  There's no question in my mind the compelling reasons already exist, we just need patience.
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