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[QUOTE="dinosaurbbq, post: 494166, member: 1333"]
I think the "stay close to home" angle many posters are taking is a bunch of crap.  His early commitment to SU kept a whole lot of Texas teams from even giving him a sniff. 
 
The excellent salesman whipping the fans into a frenzy angle is also a bunch of crap.  He wasn't trying to bask in the glory of a fan feeding frenzy.  If that were the case, he would not have committed to SU early.  He would have kept his options open and tried to play one TX school against another to stroke his ego.
 
He was clearly not only prepared but gung ho about coming up to NY and we all ought to thank him for rallying the recruits for as long as he did.  Say whatever you want now, but he was coming here.  He was a couple of days from coming here on early enrollment when the HC and OC, the two people he had been talking to about his future at SU, left.  The timing stunk for an early enrollee.  If he was a normal May graduate, he could have waited to see how it shook out at SU.  He couldn't.  He had to make a decision with a lot of uncertainty at SU.  If he waited, who knows what system he would have gotten stuck with.  He couldn't afford to.  With that situation in imind, he then looked at options as backups and found one only 2 hours away where he could be near his family.  He made a decent choice given the circumstances.  Its a shame, but there's nothing he could do about it.
 
With the OC and QB coach it looks like we've got signed on, I would think Woolard and/or O'Korn would be excited to come to SU and I would think either would be a great pickup.
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