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[QUOTE="Statesman1, post: 1083438, member: 3507"]
I'm glad the staff has a plan and that they are apparently executing on it and we are in agreement on

Fair enough and I agree with you on point #4- it is much harder for fans to assess recruits with a class wrapped up so early.  Maybe the Syracuse brand will scare off other recruiters but I doubt it.  I hope we will have to fight off other programs as their senior seasons unfold- to me that would be a very positive yardstick if it happens and even better if we can hold on to them when it does.  However, lots of schools target early and employ a similar strategy.  We are clearly not a selector school so we do probably need to turn over a few more stones than the big boys do-and I'm fine with that.  The fact alone that this is a strategy of the staff to move things up doesn't necessarily make it the right one or the wrong one- we don't have enough of a track record with the staff to fairly judge them yet on their ability to turn over those stones relative to the competition.  Sometimes a little perspective is helpful, which is often in short supply on a parochial fan forum like this one.  We're in a much tougher conference now and we need to step up the recruiting to compete.  I don't know about you but I didn't like watching the multiple blowouts last year which illustrated the talent gap we have to overcome.  I love that fans get excited over recruiting, I just don't get as excited over a relatively unknown class like this given the lack of data points (in this case competing offers from other schools) given the competition in conference.  I find it much more reassuring being in the mix with guys with an offer list more similar to Daiquan Kelly rather than so many relative unknowns. But hey in SS we trust-
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