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[QUOTE="Sudano, post: 1654870, member: 822"]
Independent of Football colleges and students have regional relationships with their alumni, their family members, friends, prospective students. They recruit predominantly from areas that are within 500 miles of their campus. 90+% of all students attend college within 500 miles of HS. Its just a simple human condition. They want to be close enough for their local support system to be able to know they have succeeded. While I understand that most students have an economic reason to stay close to home and Football players on full scholarship have less reason to concept of support, family, community still holds true. If highly talented football players can get what they need closer to home the probability increases that they stay closer to home than go further away. So all Northeast States are in our footprint by the sole basis of proximity and what those advantages hold. Most in the Northeast know someone who attended, they are familiar with the University, its easy for friends, family, community to come see them, to support them. Its easier and less expensive for SU coaches to develop relationships with HS coaches, players, family. The other top factor to where we recruit is talent. So the correlation of players with top talent along with proximity holds where we should be emphasizing recruiting. The northeast should not hold 100% of our budget or team. But 50-60% of our 85 players should be top players from NE, NY, PA, NJ and MD if we want to be a top contender in the ACC and go to Bowls every year.
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