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[QUOTE="weakstraw, post: 779728, member: 3619"]
I understand that people want to get the big stars from NYC, but think back the last 5 years.  How many of those players became all-americans? Pros?  4 year starters?  All conference?  That's not to say they did not have productive careers.  But a lot of these kids want to play at big programs, we are not.  They want to compete in conference/national championships, we cannot yet.

There have been rumblings in programs as of late of NYC talent being disgruntled at their present programs.  Well, they are big kids who made a big decisions.  Instead of coming to SU and starting as a freshman or RS freshman, they took their 4 stars and went to a big program.  They sat their quietly behind the 5 star recruit who RSed the year before.  They finally get into the rotation their RS junior year and maybe start their RS senior year.  But, they have to share that rotation with the brand new 5 star who came in and is the next big "player".

They thank the 4 star recruit for their years of service and if they played their cards right, they might free agent into NFL, or go to Canada.  If they played their cards right they got a degree and can get a job.  (That ND piece of paper is tight!)

OR, they go back to NYC to all those people who told him that the big program is the best choice instead of Syracuse and maybe they can provide another great idea.

If these kids and their parents want to keep making that decision, they can.  You have to wonder why they don't look at all the talent that has gone before them and asked, "hey what happen to so and so when they went to the big program"?

You can almost bank that they did not get the 4th team all-america team as Jay Bromley (the 2 star) by Phil Steele today.

If they don't want to come, find those that want to.  A 4 star from Illinois is just as good as as a 4 star from NYC.
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