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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4318922, member: 1145"]
In those days, there was much more football talent produced in the northeast. That talent did not really start to dissipate toward nothing until after 1980, and the full process took 20 years.

Here is a UNC example of how much more talent NY used to produce. In 1970, UNC RB Don McCauley broke the nation's season rushing total held by OJ Simpson for 2 years. When McCauley was a senior in HS on Long Island, he was not close to the top ranked NY RB in his class, and might not have even been Top 10 among northeastern RBs.  Schools like Syracuse and PSU wanted him as a safety, because they were signing higher ranked RB recruits.

Those are very long gone, and I see no sign there is any chance they might make a slight return. And the lack of those locally produced players hurt Syracuse a great deal. Even if you were ton have 3 consecutive 9 win seasons, all kinds of NY media would point out how many of your top players come from outside the northeast.
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