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Post by derhut on Sept 16, 2014 10:36:15 GMT -5
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Post by Pinnum on Sept 16, 2014 12:52:03 GMT -5
A lot of schools recruit Canada. It is not unique. I know of some schools that were even recruiting the Northern Territories ten years ago. It is too easy to get access to top athletes, no matter what country they are located in. This is part of the reason SBU has had so many Europeans on the roster compared with the student body.
The question is less about who can see talent in Canada but rather who has relationships in Canada and can offer what a recruit is looking for. SBU is within the distance of a day trip which can be significant for some athletes (or rather, their mothers). The new hire was a great addition for someone with a history of relationships in Canada but the biggest selling point may be taking a three star recruit from Canada and turning him into a first round draft pick.
As markets change people flood them and other markets get undervalued. It is possible Toronto will get over recruited and SBU won't be able to compete. But maybe that will leave Buffalo, Cleveland, or somewhere else under recruited and SBU will do well there. I am not too concerned; the right people are in place.
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Post by derhut on Sept 16, 2014 14:14:51 GMT -5
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A lot of schools recruit Canada. It is not unique. I know of some schools that were even recruiting the Northern Territories ten years ago.
gotcha there captain obvious...I cant believe that you were privy to schools recruiting up there TEN years ago. The Brown Indians had on stud named Barry Atkinson from Canada on their roster in the mid 1970s !
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Post by Pinnum on Sept 16, 2014 14:19:20 GMT -5
Northern Territories; not Canada.
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Post by jh on Sept 16, 2014 18:13:19 GMT -5
Ofcourse others will recruit Canada - which is fine. We have the obvious geographical advantage of being the closest school in a multi bid conference to Toronto.
Another obvious fact - kids and their parents often prefer schools located near them.
Our staff was put together prior to coming to St Bonas and thus their geographical advantages were not in line with our schools location making their recruiting battle like forever swimming upstream asking kids and their parents to attend SBU sometimes 8 hours away or further.
In a perfect world our staff would be filled with recruiters who were from Toronto/Rochester/Cleveland markets - we could live off the talent coming out of there and it would be far easier on our recruiting travel budgets.
We just exchanged a coach whose background was Indiana and southern Ohio for a coach whose background is in Toronto. Geographically its a huge correction closer in line with what would make sense for us.
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