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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 1927041, member: 5058"]
I would say that some of that is the bigger kids coming around to play in our yard has hurt some (Samuel at OSU Ishaq at ND, or Ogundeku at Clemson for example). Apart from the few actual top notch recruits that are easily wooed away from the dimmer lights and/or colder weather, are the "second tier" of top NYS recruits. Those are the ones we compete with Pitt, BC, Rutgers, and occasionally PSU for. Every one of those schools is closer to us than any of the examples you mention as a competing draw for Stanford save maybe Cal, (NW shares a similar isolation in that Illinois is the only "local" competition. Maybe Madison is in that same radius).

I agree with most however that we are talking about a different caliber of average recruit. Heck even our RB coach chose to leave the state to the bigger name.  I don't know if or how hard we recruited him, but most kids in our part of the country are looking for an opportunity to get away from home, so the good ones that get a sniff jump at it.
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