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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 1072679, member: 229"]
I didn’t incorrectly dwell in the past.  I didn’t bag on Robinson’s recruiting in NJ, I correctly gave him credit for a losing program which made it next to impossible for us to recruit there.  When Marrone came on board in the face of 10 wins and 37 losses over 4 years at the same time Rutgers with Schiano was starting to flex their muscle.  We couldn’t beat anybody in NJ let alone Rutgers.

I don’t know if Marrone burned bridges or not.  I find it hard to believe there were any bridges left to burn.  Marrone did make an effort to get back in NJ by bringing in DyShawn Davis, Krautman, Mungwa (from Bergen Catholic nonetheless),  and Marcus Coleman.  2 starters, 1 quit and 1 TBD.  (recruited Spruill from Prep School not out of NJ)

I don’t recollect Pasqualoni’s NJ problems, I’ll have to go back and look.  But I do remember Schiano was a huge reason calling the ‘meeting’ of HS coaches and aggressively negatively recruiting Syracuse.  And clearly the P era had gone stale NJ kids started looking for something else.

Coach P, Marrone none of that matters though on the disaster that was Greg Robinson.  Marrone had a monstrous task of pulling Syracuse out of the depths of the Robinson despair.  They started to win NJ back by getting a program that could compete and now Shafer is running with it and making the right hires.  Shafer being a college guys knows how this sht works.
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