Could This Be A First For St. John's

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I think this may be the first St. John's team ever to start the season without a single NYC scholarship player. I know we have a couple of players that played JUCO or HS in NY but with the exception of some walk-ons, I think all of our players originally hail from somewhere outside NY (or the entire tri-state area). Looks like Lavin has made it clear that he will recruit globally, which can only help us on a national scale. We may have to move our games to the UN ; )

Welcome back Coach Lavin & lets get this party started.
 
I think this may be the first St. John's team ever to start the season without a single NYC scholarship player. I know we have a couple of players that played JUCO or HS in NY but with the exception of some walk-ons, I think all of our players originally hail from somewhere outside NY (or the entire tri-state area). Looks like Lavin has made it clear that he will recruit globally, which can only help us on a national scale. We may have to move our games to the UN ; )

Welcome back Coach Lavin & lets get this party started.
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In all honesty who cares?
Get the best possible talent and win.
NYC does not half the talent it used to and in order to be succesful we must recruit anywhere and everywhere.
We have 5 kids who played ball in New York State - Gift, Felix, Obekpa, Marco and Orlando.
As long as they are upper level BE talent that is what we require.
Go Coach Lavin.
 
I agree with RMN and as I've said before, who cares where they come from. Just get the best talent we can and build a winner. I think Coach L is doing a terrific job recruiting nationally and lets hope it only gets better. It was always nice to have local talent on the team and I know that Looie used to have tokens for a recruiting budget but those times have changed and you've got to change with the times or get left behind. There are too many schools recruiting in the NYC area and the competition got intense. We have a lot to offer kids from out of state who want to get away from home, just like the kids from NYC want to get away, and who has more to offer than NYC and St. John's? 
 
I am not sure it was meant as a criticism but an observation the same I and someone I was with thought and talked about while on campus last weekend. While it doesn't matter to me where the players come from, I too can't remember a team not having anyone hailing from NYC (and I don't think any of the walk-ons are from NYC either). Harkless was the only one last year.

That being said, as Pitino said in his article, the model has changed. Lavin goes after players he wants and feels would fit in his program and the school no matter where they come from and we will embrace them.

Go St. John's.
 
 Yes, it is an interesting observation, and a little surprising that it never happened before. It is probably a positiive development that our horizons are broadened. We will certainly have NYC kids in the future, it is just an intersting factoid.
 
 There is a walk on from Medford, Obekpa played in Centereach, etc. Isn't 35-40 miles from the Queens campus close enough?
 
SJU85 is 100% right, my post was an observation, not criticism. I think that was abundantly clear. I also noted that some players did play HS or JUCO ball nearby but that none of the scholarship players originally hail from the greater NY area.
 
God bless Lavin for understanding that St. John's can be a national school and not the local college which Fr. Donald J. Harrington seemingly envisions.
 
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