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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3993127, member: 1145"]
The simple fact is that NY HS football is not close to what it was even in the 1990s, much less back in the 1960s. Long Island native Don McCauley was recruited by most schools as a DB rather than as RB. NY state produced several RBs more heavily recruited than McCauley. He went to UNC and broke OJ Simpson's season rushing record and then had a sound NFL career.

And the decline has been region wide. PA used to produce more talent than MD, VA, and NC. When Maryland had many top teams from the 1940s through the 1960s, PA players were all over the rosters, and NJ and NY players were common.

That decline means that even if a team located in the northeast were to dominate all of northeastern recruiting, it could not amass enough talent to be in the hunt to make the playoffs. However, if you cannot recruit your own region well, you are handicapped going into any other region. That means that Syracuse need a coach who knows the importance of recruiting the northeast and builds a staff to do that well.

And ACC membership means that kids from Chicago over to Baltimore and down to Miami will see Syracuse as being in a league that is near them. So the right staff at Syracuse will be able to assemble enough talent to, first, make bowls a regular feature and then to aim higher.

Would Marrone come home? Or is he the type who either wants more NFL or a 'top' college program?
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