Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Think you are all missing the point. Believe the poster was talking about accolades bestowed upon HS players entering SBU, or lack there of. This is credit to Spallina that he can identify “overlooked” talent and bring it in, or develop it, and get these players national recognition. It is true he gets much more out of what appears to be less. Give this guy the recruiting classes of MD, UNC or FL, it would not even be a contest for the championship.


Not missing any point. You are spreading fake news. Go take a look at the Bio's of the players who saw action in the BC game. Many HS All-Americans, All-Long Island, All County etc... Very few of these players were overlooked. They chose to go to Stony Brook for their own personal reasons. Stony Brook can be financially attractive, it is a good school, close to home etc... Every player / family has their own reason for selecting a school. Great to go to Duke, BC or ND but if you are only offered 30% that tuition bill can hurt.


School awards are something different. It takes hours and hours to give out the hundreds and hundreds of all the awards you mentioned above at the county award dinner. Those awards are great and nice for the kids, but drastically different than the awards that were being referenced by all the proceedings discussions. The accolades where many were overlooked are the US National teams, the UA teams, the IL lists and so forth. For every hundred girls that get an school based award, 1 of them get to these next level awards. And SBU recruits are overlooked at that level. It is not putting anyone down here, but it is very true. Spillina will be the first tell you the same exact thing, he talks about it and uses it as a selling point in his recruiting. And to his credit he takes many unheralded players out of recruiting, and turns them into record breaking All Americans at the D1 level. Its not going to happen for most of the players but certain some. It is a huge part of his pitch in recruiting girls, and a huge part of the playing with a chip on the shoulder mentality of his teams.