[NU Sports] Boston College

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Despite losing the game, we still (I assume) want to remain in the Big Ten.  And the only way to do that (and remain competitive) is to recruit from the same pool of talent that the other ten schools are.  And 75% of the Rivals 100 comes from 12 states: Texas (14), Florida (12), California (11), Georgia (6), South Carolina (5), Louisiana (5), North Carolina (5),  Michigan (4), Alabama (4), Illinois (3), Ohio (3), New Jersey (3).  We will always be more concentrated in Illinois/Ohio/Michigan, but the remaining talent is simply not in the Northeast.  
 
The fact that NH beat us on Saturday had better be due to the fact that they had a defensive coordinator who was awake, better offensive game plan, better execution, a more seasoned QB, etc., and not their talent.
 
If we aspire to getting UNH-type talent, we would have to also aspire to membership in the Atlantic-10.
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
-----Original Message-----
From: yevb0 at alumni.northwestern.edu
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Boston College


That may be true, but after our performance this weekend, it sounds a 
bit foolish to talk about a lack of football talent in the 
northeast... 
 
On 9/11/06, cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote: 
> 
> If I want football talent, I'll be looking at the South and the West. 
> 
> Rivals doesn't even publish top-5 lists for Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mass, Conn, or RI. 
> 
 
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