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Message: [QUOTE="LeMoyneCuse, post: 5058176, member: 158"] 1) What does pro sports have to do with anything in this conversation, other than it makes people not care about college sports and therefore have little awareness about various nuances regarding different teams? 2) "Most schools with a roster over 50% from 300+ miles faired worse than those with less than 50%." If you had actually read my whole post, you'd notice that I argue there's no correlation between wins and losses and how far players' hometowns are from campus because of the wide distribution of wins and losses for schools with the same type of player draw. But since you mentioned it, the Mean (8) and Median (7.5) wins for the 50%+ group is slightly higher than the Mean (7.27) and Median (7) for the under 50% group. So this is the opposite of your claim. 3) The key word is "majority." The majority of Syracuse locals are fans of the Orange. That's the inherent advantage of being able to get local recruits - a kid knows you before you know them and not the other way around. But Upstate NY doesn't produce many, so it's a natural barrier Syracuse faces. 4) Regarding your opinion on a backyard - by your logic and based on my experience from living in NYC, the city is Michigan's backyard, because I met more alums who went to Michigan than from anywhere else (not Penn State). But in reality, there's no majority or loyalty to a school of any kind in the tri-state - I went through the alma mater of the first 20 Jersey native friends / coworkers I had while living in Hoboken and came up with 16 different schools, including Maryland, Delaware, UConn, and Vanderbilt. Plus, if alums aren't the parents of high D1 caliber athletes, that has no impact on the awareness / fandom of the kids who are high caliber D1 athletes, so who cares? 5) Use the enter key once in a while. This is super hard to read. [/QUOTE]

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