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Message: [QUOTE="gocraz4dasu, post: 907605, member: 1109"] NY continually puts out elite basketball talent which is part of the reason why the basketball program has always been strong. SU has a number of players to choose from in the state that can contribute on the team. So there are a multitude of choices for 13 scholarships and SU can pick who they please to fill those spots. There also is not a whole lot of elite competition in the Northeast for those recruits. There is only Uconn, Kentucky (because money can lure anyone away from anywhere), and then maybe 'Nova or Pitt. Otherwise we have the Northeast essentially locked down. Football has to compete with Penn State, which is a much better program than us now, and then we have to deal with OSU, Michigan, and Notre Dame swooping in and basically picking the most talented players for their own. Then what is remaining is divided among the rest including us, Pitt, WVU, Rutgers, Maryland, and Boston College. The level of talent in NY in high school football is not remotely on par with basketball. There are usually only a few highly sought after guys from NY in football. Now there are some diamonds in the rough who have panned out but they were never the 'sexy' recruits coming in anywhere. Ironically most of those highly recruited players have not panned out elsewhere so far outside of Easley and even then he's been hurt and is on record saying how he dislikes being at Florida. There is less talent in football than basketball in NY so filling those 85 scholarships with a weak talent pool in-state is not easy. Because of that we are recruiting further away because the talent in other states is so much better, deeper, and much more polished which is where those good programs like FSU and Clemson in the ACC happen to be located. That's no accident. [/QUOTE]

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