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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 3262739, member: 2651"] Steven Clark didn't live in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, perhaps the most fertile D1 recruiting area in the entire country. McKinney is on the north side of Dallas, about 30 miles away, and has a population of nearly 200k people. The school was 5A district champs, and Brandon Frazier is a stud tight end with 20 plus scholarship offers from all over the country. He's probably going to Auburn and had offers from LSU, Alabama, and other top schools. There is zero - ZERO - chance this kid didn't have the eyeballs of recruiters all over him. There is ZERO chance his high school coach is some glorified gym teacher who doesn't know or understand recruiting such that this guy is secretly a P-5 talent who has no offers because the coach and family do not know how to play the recruiting game. I live in Texas and I am familiar enough with the high school football scene to know that a 5A high school coach in the Metroplex understands recruiting. I don't understand this board's reflexive and compulsive need to deny obvious reality. It is possible to hold multiple views in one's head at the same time. IF THIS KID GOES TO SYRACUSE: - I think we can all agree we want him to thrive - as a person and as a player. - We can all agree that there are many talented kids who fall through the cracks, are late bloomers, or otherwise are under recruited. - We can all agree that the number of high school QBs who put up video game numbers, but are not offered many D1 scholarships, is significantly higher than the number who "make it". I.E. there may be exceptions to the rule, but the general rule remains that if literally dozens of schools pass on a kid, it probably means the kid has been properly evaluated. I don't think any of the above statements are controversial or, frankly, disputable by any reasonable mind. Given that, as fans of Syracuse football, we can hope for the best knowing that successful college (and NFL) QB's have come from similarly meager starting points (paucity of scholarship offers), while at the same time acknowledging the likelihood is that the majority of talent evaluators are correct and have concern about the fact that the program is essentially grasping at lottery tickets for QB recruiting. [/QUOTE]

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