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Message: [QUOTE="CU44SE, post: 4621655, member: 2196"] Bottom line is it hurts recruiting. When we played in the big east. We recruited near our “base”. Family’s could drive to most games. Now we play a lot of southern teams. Driving to most games is not easy for some family’s. We play 6-7 home games for football or 18 basketball games and the rest are mostly not drivable. And then if you recruit from the south, they are not making the home games and only the away games. They always talk about homegrown talent. Syracuse doesn’t have a hole lot of homegrown football talent and basketball talent is diminished outside of NYC. We could recruit NYC and DMV before because again, most games were drivable home and away. Now, we have BC and Pitt. And then 10 hour drive down south. DMV used to have 4 locations that were within 3 hour drives. Now we have 1. The areas we play most of our games is farther away then where we play. It’s not as easy to travel for families. [/QUOTE]