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Message: [QUOTE="JeremyCuse, post: 2554734, member: 43"] Marr has done a great job at Albany espcially when you consider the fact that most of the guys he has who are starters and even the stars like Fields didn't have many other high end offers besides Albany. I have mentioend this before but while Albany has done a great job it really hasn't come at the expense of SU in recruiting. Outside of Nanticoke and maybe 1 or 2 others I can't think of a guy both teams recruited/offered and Albany beat out SU. Fields, Ierlan (mistake for sure), Patterson, Colarusso, the Eccles never ending family,Stone Sims, Reh etc none of these guys had SU offers or really other high end D1 offers to be honest. Fields and Ierlans only major D1 offers were Albany I believe though Ierlan did visit SU and a couple of other schools. Marr has done a great job turning kids no one else really wanted it to all-american types. The question now is really two fold - 1. Can he keep it going and 2. Can a major program lure him away. Id say probably not on #2 unless Hopkins came calling. As for #1 I think thats a little more debatable. His recruiting has amped up big time especially with natives and in CNY (Albany has two LSMs coming out of the area the Caz and Liverpool kid over the next few years both good players) but I would pump the brakes a little bit. Albany right now has a very good Senior class and a legend at the X in Ierlan. They lose a ton to graduation this year and while Ierlan is unbelievable its unlikely he will be able to maintain this dominance all 4 year as just about every elite faceoff guy has broken down from over use by their senior year. They bring in another good class next year but over the next 2 years there losing a lot of key players to graduation especially this year. [/QUOTE]

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