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<blockquote data-quote="PaintedontheSky" data-source="post: 129266550" data-attributes="member: 1807814">Couldn't agree more with your thoughts on the Baltimore/DC area....... but, I understand that, and this came from recruiters, there's a lot of local influence on many of these recruits and a big influence is their high school coach.&nbsp; It's even hard to get into some of these places as the athletes are walled-off by people with other interests.&nbsp; Recruiting territory is staked out by various schools and there's lots of negative stuff fed to these athletes about other schools.Western PA is one of those fertile grounds and the Mountaineers are competing for athletes against the likes of Pitt, Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame and others, so that sure as the dickens says something about the quality of players there.I mean there's been and continues to be some really good players coming out of that region, as well as Ohio.&nbsp; And I know you know recruiting, and by that I mean recruiting top notch players, is the absolute life-blood of a college football program if the program is looking to be a winning, championship, or title contending program.If playing Pitt helps the Mountaineers recruiting efforts, and I have no reason to think it wouldn't, then to me that alone is reason enough to play the game.I despise what Pitt and Syracuse didn't do, but I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. <img src="http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/smokin.r191677.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="PaintedontheSky, post: 129266550, member: 1807814"] Couldn't agree more with your thoughts on the Baltimore/DC area....... but, I understand that, and this came from recruiters, there's a lot of local influence on many of these recruits and a big influence is their high school coach. It's even hard to get into some of these places as the athletes are walled-off by people with other interests. Recruiting territory is staked out by various schools and there's lots of negative stuff fed to these athletes about other schools. Western PA is one of those fertile grounds and the Mountaineers are competing for athletes against the likes of Pitt, Penn State, Ohio State, Notre Dame and others, so that sure as the dickens says something about the quality of players there. I mean there's been and continues to be some really good players coming out of that region, as well as Ohio. And I know you know recruiting, and by that I mean recruiting top notch players, is the absolute life-blood of a college football program if the program is looking to be a winning, championship, or title contending program. If playing Pitt helps the Mountaineers recruiting efforts, and I have no reason to think it wouldn't, then to me that alone is reason enough to play the game. I despise what Pitt and Syracuse didn't do, but I'm not willing to throw the baby out with the bathwater. [IMG]http://l.yimg.com/j/assets/img/emoticons/classic/smokin.r191677.gif[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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