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[QUOTE="OttosBestFriend, post: 675373, member: 852"]
Disagree to an extent.
 
I'd consider him a "beaten recruiter" if he lost kids to our peers when it comes to prestige, conference, & facilities.
 
He's not losing Long Island, NYC & NJ's top kids to UCONN, Buffalo, Maryland, and Pitt.
 
The battles we're losing in the New York metro area involve the very best kids - who end up signing with programs that far exceed ours in terms of facilities, Bowls over the last decade, media mentions, national TV appearances, fan bases/attendance at home games, and - until this year - conference affiliation. (ND, Miami, Clemson, Penn State, Michigan, VA Tech, etc.)
 
You could have the best marksman in the world, but he's gonna lose a gun battle 7 days a week and twice on Sunday if you send him in with a musket versus a guy brandishing an .
 
When facilities are on par, the team's winning 8-9 games a year, and the fans start showing up again, THEN and only then, will I be upset with our recruiters for missing out on the top-10 kids from LI, NYC & NJ.
 
Let me put it this way, I'm as big a fan of Syracuse as anybody, but if one of my sons was an elite recruit - being offered by Florida, Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, USC and Notre Dame in today's climate with the way things are now - then I'd tell him to go to one of those schools and not think twice.
 
Hate to say it, but the PROGRAM as a whole is not where it needs to be to retain the very best kids around.
 
They didn't grow up with SU football on TV in big games... They didn't grow up with Syracuse as a winning team... They didn't grow up with Syracuse even on their radar.
 
It's not Rob Moore's fault.
 
But ask me the same question in 3 years if we get new facilities, start drawing 48K per, and make 3 more Bowl games.
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