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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaBarrel, post: 3509241, member: 363"] Yeah the lack of local recruiting base and geography plays a huge role like you said. Football is a dying sport in NY. When Dino gave the first "whose house" speech the condition of the locker rooms were jaw dropping. Sure Syracuse has made renovations but they will always be behind the 8 ball here as well. We are also swimming in much deeper waters recruiting in the Northeast as well as Florida than we were back in the day. Directional Florida schools, Rutgers and now other Big 10 schools. In addition, the program has really had 2-3 good seasons in almost 20 years? the perception of the program is a big hurdle as well. Kids can't remember our former stars at this point because it's been so long. It's just a tough place to recruit. The lack of recruiting the O Line position remains a concern for over 20 years now. I would say in 2012 that was our best O Line in recent memory, we had Pugh and a bunch of kids that Marrone transformed into junkyard dogs. Even before that McNabb spent a lot of time running for his life. We need Bear's Dad. I am not saying it's impossible but it presents some serious unique challenges and choosing to ignore them just is crazy, IMO. A merry go round at the AD And HC positions do not help. Ill call it poor hiring practices. I think we are in a good spot now. GROB and Gross were REALLY bad hires. Shafer your run of the mill bad hire if I am being nice. Shafer also hired a horrible staff When we have a really good group of seniors I think we will have our best teams. 2018 you had a special group, 2012 and 2001 as well and I know that is observing the obvious but it's tough for us to reload and that is why you see what we have the past 2 years. Really a chicken versus egg argument, without more winning you can't attract more talent, without better talent you can't win more and there lies the overall challenge of the job. You will also won't put butts in seats with a loser. Getting to a spot where you can sustain success to keep winning and recruiting but like I said hiring a new coach every few years it will never happen [/QUOTE]

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