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I looked back to see the numbers by Raoul

As best I could I reconstructed all his recruiting classes for HS seniors.

Total recruits 63 players (I did not included Friedrichsen or Dunlap as they are Other location-wise)

IL/IN/MI/OH -- 20 players (proxy for 250 miles)

PA -- 6
NJ -- 5
NY -- 3 * I included JJ Staling as IN not NY where he's from
MA -- 6
MD/DC/VA -- 5

Total Core -- 25

Maine/RI/CT -- 4 (Colson, Knight, Abromaitis, Campbell) - Didn't include Markwood...not sure who recruited.

Total Core Plus -- 29

All Other Places -- 14 (California, Texas, FL, etc.)

Total all recruits -- 63

Best I can do with the data I could scrape up via 247 and then where missing press releases. 63 seems about right - about 3 per year. I didn't include any transfers in, just high school recruits.

Who knows what the focus of Shrewsbury will be. I just hope he tries to do better in IL/IN/MI/OH.