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[QUOTE="JimBoston, post: 3993216, member: 1312"]
Kids in the Northeast aren't as developed as football players in many other parts of the country because football and conditioning are not year round.  That said, in many parts of the Northeast, develop is getting better, especially with all of the 7on7s going on.  If you are going to recruit Northeast players, you have to redshirt and develop them and be a development program.  Marrone understood this, but I don't think Babers does.

It seems like Syracuse has lost it's way in many of the traditional recruiting areas:  New York, New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania.  In 2010 and 2011, Marrone pulled in 19 and 16 players from the traditional recruiting area.  Babers in 2020 and 2021 pulled in 7 and 6.  In 2020, there were ~149 FBS players from the traditional recruiting area and ~140 FBS players in 2021.

Look at QBs that have come out of Connecticut over the past few years that are FBS starters or contributors:  Drew Pyne at Notre Dame, Will Levis at Kentucky, Tyler Van Dyke at Miami, Taisun Phommachanh at Clemson, Tyler Phommachanh at UConn.  And Syracuse had David Summers which didn't work out.

In my opinion, the recipe for success for Syracuse football is to recruit a bunch of developmental players from the Northeast and add in players from the mid-Atlantic, Georgia, and Florida, especially for speed.  And, use to the portal to fill some holes that develop.
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