"Please work on improving your reading comprehension. Where does it say that those 15 schools are equal in the talent that they bring in? The gist of the post was that it is "the top players" that have "their pick" not the other way around. If you look back over the years the majority of the top 30 - 40 recruits choose one of the schools listed. The majority of those schools finish the season ranked in the top 20 just about every year. Some of those schools get more of the top recruits than others but none get all of the recruits that they want. Not all of UNC's recruits are top recruits, their #9 is not equal to their #1. UNC does not get their pick of the top players. Sometimes, more of the top players choose UNC but once again it is the top players that get to choose.

The top recruits get to choose where they want to go."

Wrong again, I know of many top recruits ,kids ranked 1-10 by inside lacrosse who were told by some of the top schools that they have no interest in them for various reasons or offered little money.