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[QUOTE="cuseinseattle, post: 2136438, member: 2504"]
I listened to Mitch in the Morning (Syracuse grad) on the local Seattle sports radio station this morning.  He had a 20-30 minute interview with Hop.  One of the questions was about recruiting and what his strategy is.  Mitch went to Syracuse in the mid 80's and said he remembers not just Hopkins but Thompson and then later Hart as well as Manning and some other kids coming from California.  Is he comfortable recruiting this area.  He talked about how he likes the Syracuse approach which he called "Homeland Security".  He said, "Myself and Troy Weaver talked about how we were finishing 2 and 3 for kids when we were recruiting more nationally and came up with this idea of Homeland Security and how we should focus on our backyard of New York City as well as Baltimore, DC and Philly.  I want to implement that here.  We have some of the best players in the country in Seattle and we need to keep them home and we need to get kids from what I call 5 hours away and that included Oregon and California.  That needs to be our focus and that is how we build this into something special like Syracuse."

I thought I would post this because I remember someone asking if Hop would be recruiting against us in the NE and east coast.  It might of been on the recruiting board.  This doesn't mean he wouldn't grab a kid or two from over on the east coast but it doesn't seem like it's part of his strategy.
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