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Message: [QUOTE="reedny, post: 1227948, member: 1423"] I appreciate your posts about recruiting .. you ( and some other posters) seem to have a great deal of insight about the recruiting process. If I'm understanding your posts correctly, you're optimistic about the talent we have coming in even though (from my limited understanding) we're fielding 3 star players in a league seemingly loaded with 4 and 5 star talent. Geographically ... yes we're in the North. Huge factor. We don't put church and football in the same sentence. We don't organize our civic life around interscholastic or intercollegiate football games, or pay our coaches 5 million dollars a year, etc, etc.. That won't (and shouldn't) change. However, we have a Dome and a great school for kids that have any interest in academics at all. If they don't want to attend (meaningful) classes ... they can go south (or play for Rutgers). That said, there are some pretty good FB teams being fielded by quality academic schools ... Northwestern comes to mind. Duke comes to mind (they flattened us this year and before the season, I didn't even know they had a FB team). So certainly there's hope for a private school with rigorous academics being able to compete -- with the right coaching. Northwestern's a private school in Chicago .. and the wind off of lake michigan in the winter makes syracuse seem like miami. So with a dome I can't imagine why weather is so damaging to our recruiting. On balance, I can live with taking 3 star kids that are academically qualified and "develop" in our program. However, we need a sprinkling of 4/5 star talent at the skill positions, or I don't see us rising up from the basement of the ACC anytime soon. This is where I have serious reservations about our current staff and would appreciate your thoughts about our competitiveness in the future. [/QUOTE]

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