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Message: [QUOTE="Crusty, post: 1595392, member: 2265"] Talent within a certain radius is certainly a factor, but not the main factor. It doesn't even explain Florida much less the rest of the country. By this one standard, Miami should be a perennial power and USF and UCF would have been powerhouses years ago. This is a popular, but oversimplified explanation. Everybody recruits Florida (and Georgia) and many schools pull great talent out of Florida every year. Clemson is about 8 hours from Tampa and yet, Clemson would not be Clemson without its Florida talent. The same is true for many ACC schools, including North Carolina, Louisville and Duke. - all more distant than even Clemson. This statement is simply silly. "That's why when anything less than an Ohio State level program pulls a kid out of the south, he might be a nice player, but he's rarely one the local school have made a priority." There is a built in regulator on the amount of top talent that Florida schools can keep in the state. True, they may have first choice on many - but not all top recruits. Everybody is not only limited to 85 scholarships, but more importantly by the 2 deep. There can only be one starting QB and players are more than ever looking for the opportunity to play early. Syracuse's decline in football is IMO squarely on the shoulders of past administrations that buried their heads for decades. We allowed ourselves to reach the point where we had some of the worst facilities in major CFB. We didn't react to the decline in NYS HS football by failing to make inroads in Florida and Georgia. We then failed to spend enough money to attract and retain top quality coaches. Times they are a changing. SU administration clearly gets it. The Chancellor and AD have acted swiftly and decisively. We now have competitive facilities, coaches with a winning history, $20 million more per year in ACC revenues. We will pull the recruits we need from FL, GA and NC that we need in addition to others from Midwestern states. [/QUOTE]

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