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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3378322, member: 1145"] Mack has always been able to recruit against anybody. Even before his final 2 UNC teams his first time, Mack amassed the talent to get to par with UVA under Welsh as his peak, and have Bobby Bowden say, many times, that UNC was a sleeping giant in football. Mack's final 2 UNC teams were about 2 top[ players on each side of the ball from topping FSU, which meant being in the National Championship hunt. Almost all that talent then came from NC, VA, and SC, with scattered players from the rest of the ACC and a couple other states. NC for years has produced more than enough top talent for a team to load up on and win the ACC and be in the National hunt. But for that talent to stay in state, UNC would need a great HC. Clearly, lots of NC players want to remain at home, and Mack now makes that viable. SEC schools primarily, with schools like ND and PSU occasionally, have been the beneficiaries of so many top NC players leaving the ACC. Every league needs to keep the clear majority of the top HS players from its states in the league. When that does not happen, the league lacks talent to get to and remain at the top. Now that UNC is getting top NC players to stay in state, the ACC is showing that more schools than just Clemson, FSU, Miami (and maybe VT) can keep top local players at home. That kind of recruiting success can reverberate across a conference. Which is exactly what ACC football needs.The goal should be to have 4 or 5 ranked teams [I]every[/I] year, 1 of them in the playoff. Syracuse does not the luxury of local talent. But Syracuse can benefit from the rise in the ACC generally, as well as from schools like UNC keeping top NC players in the ACC. When UNC lands, say, 10 4* NC recruits in a class it would not have gotten under Fedora, then UNC cannot sign 10 quality 3* recruits it would have under Fedora. Those 10 3* recruits are available. I think much the same works with OH recruits. OH still produces a great deal of talent, but OSU recruits nationally, getting 5* and/or high 4* recruits from multiple states each class. That means that a ton of high 3* OH players cannot go to the 1 P5 school in their state. I think Cuse, BC, Pitt, and Louisville all should recruit OH widely every year, selling the ACC as more fun to play in than the Big Ten. Why play in bad weather in West Lafayette in the boring BT when you can play in the Carrier Dome and in a bunch of stadiums in the southeast? [/QUOTE]

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