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Message: [QUOTE="tep624, post: 1355886, member: 430"] My impression, at least with Shafer's staff and their priorities and approach, is that we wouldn't be recruiting the Cardale Jones type recruit anyway, for better or for worse. If a kid is strictly going to college to play ball, then that's not the type of recruit we're targeting. We want kids that both want to play ball, and be a leader while doing it (the emphasis on targeting kids that are team captains) and kids that want an education as well. You can move the needle in either direction, but the desire for both has to be there. And there's a big difference between rolling the dice on a kid that's an academic risk that wants an education and that you think will thrive with the support system Syracuse offers and pursuing kids that have no interest whatsoever in the academic side of being a student. The latter is what factories do and we're never going to be a factory. [/QUOTE]