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This is why recruiting the Northeast is vitally important to this program. These attitudes will always exist. The idea that we'll make up for a lack of connections in our region with connections elsewhere (mid-west, mid-south, etc.) is a losing strategy. The assistants on this staff will very quickly have to get friendly and familiar with the states in our region. The kids up here know SU. Even if they think football at SU doesn't measure up to the SEC programs, at least it's close to home. But if you're going to wind up miles and miles away from home to play ball, more often than not you're going to justify the distance by picking the program in the higher profile conference. The only exception to this truism is Florida and that's because everybody recruits there and there's a long history of kids going up north for school.
 
We're not going to get the best kids from Illinois or Michigan. That will not happen. Ohio, I agree. We need to hit that state hard--especially now that Cincy's been knocked down a peg and there's only one major conference team in the state again. Georgia, too, I agree. Huge state, only two local programs. But our bread and butter needs to be in the Northeast.
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