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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 281277, member: 1145"] You raise key issues. First, Syracuse must work to keep any other schools in the northeast out of the ACC and thus hopefully (unless the Big 12 goes wild and takes Rutgers to claim NYC for itself as a type of Austin-East) keep those schools as small time. The fewer the number of Big Time conference schools there are playing in Big Time football conferences, the better off each is. Cuse, for example, will recruit NJ better if Rutgers is small time in league affiliation. Second, Cuse needs to try to recruit OH, emphasizing that now OH borders the ACC and that an OH kid at Syracuse gets to stay in the north but also play teams primarily in the South, meaning he gets to match with 'Southern speed.' Third, Syracuse must use ACC membership to land key recruits from the South. The right HC can oversee all of that (save keeping Rutgers and UConn out of a Big Time conference). [/QUOTE]