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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 4754510, member: 4819"]
Good point - the lacrosse landscape has changed a lot over the past 20 or so years.  When I first started following things it seemed like all the talent came out of CNY, Long Island or Baltimore (i.e MIAA schools). Syracuse could obviously draw on public school kids from nearby and on the Island.  Now it seems like the New England prep schools, in addition to schools like Lawrenceville, Culver and the Hill Academy are really taking over. It's striking that a lot of the CNY kids (I use that term loosely) that are on these recruiting lists now play at prep schools (Kittleberger, Reynolds, Gaylord, Rodriguez, and Swinney).

Even on Long Island it seems like a majority of the talent ends up either at St Anthony's or Chaminade.  Remember that stacked Farmingdale team with Danowski and Panarelli? Could that happen now a days?   Sometimes I wonder if it's better for kids to be on a team that might help spotlight them a little more, rather than one of these semi-college teams that run second midfield lines and have their own SSDMs.

Syracuse has still be able to draw from those schools, and I give them a ton of credit for changing up their recruiting over the years. Finding kids from Florida (Salcido and IMG, though that didn't work out), getting a foothold back in Long Island, going back up into Canada after years away. Also, just because a kid does go to a prep school doesn't automatically mean they are bound for an Ivy League school. Deere, Kol, Anderson, O'Farrell, Dwan, Hottle, Scott, the St John's kids, etc all came/are coming to SU. The coaches just have to work a little harder than they did back in the day.
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