I love to play the middle, so I will. Guys, BizLaw is right in that we should expect to keep some more of our home-grown talent by now. We are an established program (more established than we were 5 years ago) and by all accounts, Pasqualoni has many many ties with the CT high school community. Also, BC is coming off of some very mediocre football (some would say horrid), and they are coming into CT and poaching some very talented kids.
On the other hand, you're right that we likely wouldn't have acquired people like Cochran, Stewart, Shakim Phillips, and Noel Thomas under Edsall. I think that is fair to say and safe to say. I think that PP has done a good job of recruiting so far, but the expectations have to be higher for keeping the in-state kids, since that is his presumed forte. Does the conference crap weigh in on this? Probably. But the bottom line is that the in-state recruiting has been a little bitter-sweet up to this point.