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[QUOTE="crales44, post: 533394, member: 373"]
Ah, yes, the tried and true old-timey anecdotal rebuttal!  Setting aside your assumption of my age, you're point is not quite accurate.  Richardson was a terrific recruit, the equivalent of a four-star, but William McCray was the top rated back in Florida that year and Willis and Dar Dar were good, but not in that class.  The suggestion we got the three best backs in Florida in any year is ludicrous.  We got three of the top ten, though, and by any measure, that was a TERRIFIC haul.
 
Gadson was a good recruit, rated one of the top 25 in the state by SuperPrep, but I'm not sure what your point is mentioning him.  He wasn't higher rated than Antwaune Ponds or Jim Turner.
 
My point was not that we've never signed four-star caliber players from Florida.  We have.  WHEN WE WERE HAVING TEN WIN SEASONS AND GOING TO MAJOR BOWLS. Not to mention before the advent of the recruiting mega sites that have heightened recruiting's exposure to the the level of the absurd.
 
What McDonald is facing is an entirely different scenario, and I STILL think he can snag a four-star.  I just think that expectations should be tempered when they start including pie-in-the-sky five-star Florida prospects, the likes of which we have never seen come to Syracuse before.
 
Now, I'll happily get off your lawn before you start calling me a young whippersnapper.
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