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[QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 78391, member: 686"]
Don't confuse elite "recruits" with players that develop into top-level performers. To me, an "elite" recruit is someone who is a "can't miss" top D1A future starter. For example, take all of the D1 schollies distributed in a given year and take the top 1% of that number. Those are what I consider the "elite" recruits.  There aren't that many of them in a given year. In contrast, there are numerous guys who develop into top-notch players by the time they leave school, but that doesn't mean they came in as elite recruits. SU has had very few truly elite players come in out of HS and I bet you will find that most of them came in when SU was already established as a legit top-25 program. The Tim Green's - guys who can go play at literally (and I mean that literally) any school but chose SU when SU was not good - are very few and far between. That's where my every 20 years statement came from.

This whole sub-thread started when I said we need to be building a solid pipeline of mid-level recruits (read 3 star types) with top level potential in order to win 8-9 games consistently and then start getting an increasing number of higher level recruits. I was countered by someone who said we need to get "elite" recruits first and foremost.

Your last sentence is about exactly the types of players that SU needs to be targeting right now on a regular basis and getting the most out of them.
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