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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 3499823, member: 4819"]
Very good points made here, and I agree with an awful lot of it. I guess I would just say that I don't see a lot of the traditional high schools represented on the SU roster right now that they relied on in the past (Mellen of course is a CNY guy but he was the only West Genny player on the team). In fact I can think of only one big West Genny recruit in the last few years, a goalie headed to Loyola this year. Yes, Cook went to J-D, Fiorini Baldwinsville, etc, but up and down the roster there are guys from all over. That is really not a bad thing, it's just the SU tried and true isn't something they can rely on anymore.

As for Trimboli, we could get nitpicky about where Rochester falls in the geography of New York, but I think it says something that he is the only player from Victor to end up at SU, despite producing a number of very high quality players.

They've adapted, but a lot of the Four and Five star guys are coming from places that SU doesn't do particularly well in - Duke, Maryland, UNC all do really well on Long Island, Duke and UVA do really well with the New England Prep schools, All of the southern schools do well in Baltimore, etc.  Even the Rochester area has been a pipeline of sorts to Maryland and UVA.

Why SU doesn't do better on Long Island is confusing to me, and I am not sure why they don't attack Canada more. Again they deserve a lot of credit for adapting, they did establish a pipeline of sorts to IMG and they have a huge alumni base to get feedback from. I just think a lot of their strategy now relies on uncovered players not really known to bigger schools.  I hoped Hiltz would mean more high profile guys would move to Syracuse, but its looking like a one-off at this point.
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