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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 974614, member: 27"] It would help from the perspective of preventing schools with bigger names than SU from taking Syracuse verbals but it would also inhibit Syracuse from taking verbals from schools further yet down the pecking order. We probably have stolen more players than we have had stolen in recent years, so overall, one might think this would be bad for the program. However, it is my guess is that relatively unheralded prospects with big time potential (SU's bread and butter recently) will be less likely to verbal early to 2nd tier schools like the MAC, AAC and CUSA, and more likely to verbal to schools in the top 25-70 range like Syracuse. So overall, I think it helps schools in that 25-70 range, and hurts everyone else. Should put more of a premium on the ability of staff's to evaluate talent early and less on the ability of a program to dazzle recruits with a late visit to a campus filled with top facilities and hot co-eds. [/QUOTE]