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Message: [QUOTE="anomander, post: 965755, member: 2766"] First, to address my stress of the importance is Jr. Day's is mainly from a perception standpoint. Do you not agree we are still fighting a major perception battle? Honestly on a national stage I really think we are behind even BC in a perception standpoint. Whenever you have a chance to put your program out there you have to do it. Other then planning it really doesn't cost you anything, the recruits pay their way. I have to believe there are enough prospects with interest in NYS, and the 4-5 hour radius that would make it enough to be worthwhile. Prime example, RB Jonathan Forest from New Rochelle. He was just contacted by our staff last week. We want him to attend a camp to evaluate him for an offer. I have absolutely no problem with that. Only problem is that is in June. However he was at BC last weekend, is going to Maryland this weekend, and Rutgers the following. Who knows if he already isn't committed by then, and shuts things down? That goes into the other point about the accelerated calendar. Would you really feel comfortable coming out of the dead period, and needing 10 commits in the final 2 weeks to close out the class? I think it worked out pretty well for us this year, but we can't count on that every year. Luckily teams backed off Thomas and Dowels. Plus we still don't know for sure if Dowels will qualify, and one of the commits is already a non qualifier. You saw what happened when we missed on Rodney who we made a priority. Plus if your almost done with the class by then you have the opportunity to use one of our assets, the basketball team, as a way to attract some highly regarded prospects to a Jr Day that they may not have otherwise attended. Who knows once you get a kid on campus. Duke game would have been the perfect opportunity, but we were in scramble mode. That's what a few of our conference mates did the last weekend of the recruiting cycle...they had a Jr Day, which was their 1st of several. I like our staff as much as the next guy, but there is a reason all of these other programs have them. [/QUOTE]

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