How is the high school football scene in New England? My wife grew up near Lake Ontario, about an hour from Syracuse, and the high schools in the county do not play football. I asked my father-in-law when the high schools stopped playing football and he could not remember a time when they did.
I understand people like the failure of other NE football programs because it reduces competition when recruiting. I wonder, though, if lack of big time college football programs in the NE also reduces excitement and passion at the high school level. This may cause high schools to drop football or students to pick other sports to play and, as a result, reducing the number of potential recruits from which to pick from. In other words, having a strong NE college football presence may increase the number of potential high school players from which to recruit. The suckitude of UConn and UMass may actually hurt SU's recruiting by driving down the size of the recruiting pool. No idea, but it has occurred to me in the past, so I thought I would throw it out there.
