First of all, the Syracuse location is irrelevant. As someone else pointed out Lawrence, Kansas and Lansing, Michigan say hello. Also, SO many players from outside of the metro area have gone to Storrs, CT past and present. It is just an uphill battle to go directly against Kentucky, Duke, and Arizona specifically right now in a recruiting battle.
Cal is a douche and you might be right about him BUT his system works. It is quite easy to see why a stud recruit who wants attention and who wants to play with most likely the BEST talent for a year would pick UK. Regardless of WWW. As far as coaching goes; Cal does not necessarily develop them beacuse generally they are already advanced and ready for the draft. But, there is no doubt in my mind he can coach. ANY player, coach, scout, GM will tell you that. He gets them to sacrifice their stats, play unselfish ball, and play hard. He is good team shrink as well, imo. Of course there is that hoopla around the draft that some recruits like. Him being there, the hugs, support, etc. If Quade does pick UK, it simply means to me that he wants to play with better talent, wants attention and/or the loot, and likes Cal better. It's kinda simple actually to understand. Quade is more of the douche not Cal for not being as loyal as we thought to Syracuse.
