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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4152226, member: 27"]
Agree with money on this.

What I will say is this:

I think all the big schools are aware of NYC and monitor players there pretty closely.  If that area produces a good player, they are going to get routed to one of the big schools and get a lot of attention and scholarship offers.  That area might actually be over recruited these days.

At one point, I thought players on LI were over hyped and were getting undeserved offers (compared to similar players in upstate NY).  I think those days are over.  If you on on LI, it is now like you are in upstate NY.  Or Canada.  Or Bosnia.

Only a handful of schools recruit upstate NY seriously.  Pitt does a good job.  If there is a good player here, Penn State will go after them.  Rutgers and UConn evaluate upstate some.

Not much else.  The schools named will go after blue chips from upstate but for players that are solid 3 star level, I think a lot of them end up at schools like UB, or Temple or UMass.

To make things even tougher for upstate kids, I think Dino is reluctant to recruit players from upstate unless he is convinced they are good enough to be really good players at Syracuse.  He doesn't want to take a guy that is a border line prospect, presumably because he doesn't want a lot of questions about why an upstate NY favorite son is not on the two deep, etc.  If Syracuse doesn't recruit a player from upstate, a lot of other programs won't either.

Hope Jobity works out.  Might help convince Dino kids from this area can play ball and help the program.  Don't get me wrong.  I don't think upstate NY should provide us with 30% of the roster.  But there are 10 P5 level kids a year that come out of NYS and I hope we can get to a point where we land 50% of them.
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