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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 1630847, member: 430"] This might be harsh, but I won't lose one second of sleep if Babers doesn't land a Rochester kid for the entirety of his regime over this. And money please don't take this as a shot at you because it absolutely isn't. Just my 2 cents. The talent there is overrated and the coaches at the big programs act like they're Don Bosco Prep. Newsflash: you're not. There are Florida schools that put out more D1 talent in a year than Aquinas does in 5. Rochester had been a focus for at least the past 15 years and what has this program gotten out of it? Collier who couldn't stay in school and was overrated anyway? Broyld, who had grade issues and had to prep, and then had his own issues? Roland Williams 20 years ago is probably the last one I can remember that had some hype and achieved his potential. Seriously am I missing anyone over the past 15 years at SU who was a Rochester kid and that was an all conference player or NFL pick or, at a minimum, multi year starter outside of Broyld? When the program was up, the top kids from Rochester were seriously considering SU as an option and committing to SU and when it was down, they weren't. That tells me that the only thing that matters as far as recruiting top prospects out of that area is winning. I'm tired of the approach of using scholarships on kids that the staff feels or knows won't be contributors in order to "build relationships". You could make the argument that it worked in NYC under Marrone, where we took guys like Tull, Rene and Kobena and in future years started landing guys like Reddish and Morgan. But that's the only place that I can remember recently where that strategy worked but it's a costly strategy because you are clogging up your roster with lesser players that may not ever contribute in order to get a contributor. I'd rather the staff leverage their existing relationships to get to a regular winner, and then it won't matter because once the program is winning, top players will want to play here regardless of whether they live in Rochester or on Mars. [/QUOTE]

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