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[QUOTE="JoeCollege, post: 3993633, member: 189"]
That is huge. Even PA schools play more than NY. Some areas (Western PA, the Lancaster and Harrisburg areas, and SEPA) obviously are more football focused than others. But even in NY- look at two traditional state power houses with multiple state championships in football in Class A and B and an hour from the Dome: Maine-Endwell and Chenango Forks. In the past 20 years they've had a combined MAYBE 5 or 6 FBS scholarship football players between them, and 2 of those went to West Point (NOT disparaging Army football by any means). One OL went to Maryland after prep school and was injured. One M-E DB is starting (last I knew) at BC. Another area kid was at BC and now at Colorado State.

Prior to that this area produced the Jones brothers from U-E, Daquan Jones from Johnson City who played at Penn State and in NFL. Syracuse also had Jared Kimmel in the G-Rob years. Point is that when two of the arguably best and top notch teams in your state don't produce much D-1 talent, your in state recruiting really is tough sledding.

Sections 3 and 5 placed a lot of talent onto those 1980s and 90s SU teams. Sections 2 and 4 not so much, and Section 6 has never been a reliable recruiting territory. Ideally SU coaches will find time to develop those areas and relationships with those coaches, but other areas would seem to be priorities.

Gotta get back into NJ and FL and make some gains in SEPA and Western PA.
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