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[QUOTE="NJCuse97, post: 4694130, member: 5058"]
If Syair is legit, as [USER=436]money3189[/USER] says, then you have to analyze if his position projection and talent merit saving or finding a spot. To get him that way, we may have to lose another now, or later. My questioning is less about the staff evaluation of Syair or any individual player.

I’m sorry, but I just don’t see being so deferential to the Syracuse area which is where as you say, legitimate D1 options “don’t grow on trees”. I think not getting in the top 7 of the best player in NY says a lot more. I think the best talent in the state in terms of consistent volume of talent, has been “downstate” for the past 20 years. We need to hold spots for them if we have a shot.  That was Gross’s pitch with “NY’s College Team”. Marrone made some things happen as a Bronx native. Shafer benefited from some carry over, but Babers ignored the area his first 3-4 years. White dragged Swag and brought us back into NYC and now we have Campanile keeping that alive.

We have historically found some good talent in the Syracuse area, but the last player from the area I remember staying home and making the front page was because he attacked 2-3 of his teammates. Show me “the one that got away” in all the time Babers has been coach. I’m not sure why our program owes it to the area to mortgage scholarships.
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