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[QUOTE="ohmilax34, post: 2755754, member: 6339"]
Sholo, another thing that is interesting is SU's huge roster.  Compare it to Duke who has a smaller roster.  Duke recruiting classes look to me like they have identified exactly who they want to play certain positions for multiple years.  They bring in these highly rated recruits and usually ease them in as freshmen and teach them how to play and develop them.  You can almost look at their recruiting classes and say, "yep this kid will start at attack for 3 years" and "this kid is a depth player and won't see meaningful minutes for any of his 4 years."  Now, Duke plays some weaker teams and gives those depth players some playing time then.

Contrast that with Syracuse.  At one point Syracuse had on their roster the following left handed attackmen: Jordan Evans, Logan Wisnauskas, Brad Voigt, Nick Mariano and Stephen Rehfuss.  Who would've thought that Rehfuss would be the 3 year starter at attack?  SU recruited both Camden Hay and Russ Maher in the 2020 class.  They are both lefty attackmen if I'm not mistaken.  Part of the Syracuse pitch is probably "if you come here there will be lots of competition for playing time.  Everything will be earned." And they probably fill spots with more recruits than they need and there is competition.  Do you think they should look into using Duke's strategy, or does a Duke education make Duke's strategy more effective for them and does the type of student athlete Syracuse gets make Syracuse's strategy more effective for them?
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