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Message: [QUOTE="syracuse95, post: 3464286, member: 860"] I disagree. Having more D1 schools in the northeast vying for the same limited talent pool was bad for northeastern football. It's not a coincidence that the decline of Syracuse football coincided with the comparative rise of Rutgers, UConn, and to a lesser extent Temple. There simply isn't enough HS talent in the Northeast to support that many D1 programs. An already weak talent pipeline got watered down, and all the NE teams not named Penn State became different degrees of mediocre to bad. Syracuse was better off when the only decent northeastern teams were Syracuse, BC, Pitt, and Penn State. [/QUOTE]