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[QUOTE="Scooch, post: 5055328, member: 628"]
I suspect the issue is that every program only has so many resources.  Only so much money for their recruiting budget, only so many coaches to mine the pipeline, only so many relationships that can realistically be built.

So a program, especially one like ours, needs to be very purposeful in their recruiting strategy.  It's an obvious point that it doesn't necessarily matter where premium talent resides.  But that also ignores the logistical and practical realities of the recruiting game.

Yes, Boise State pulls from California.  But that's a talent rich state in the same time zone as the school.  It's not exactly a stretch for them to hit that state hard.

But what Boise State doesn't do is spend a ton of time and resources recruiting Georgia.  Sure they might land a kid or two from there every so often.  But that's why outliers are a thing, like us getting a QB from Oregon.

I don't care about some vague concept like "identity".  But it only makes sense to put the majority of our efforts into an area where it can reap the most rewards.  That's most likely to be a 6-ish hour radius around campus.

And we really can't dismiss the family access aspect to recruiting.  There's a real appeal for a family being able to see nearly all of their kids games in person.
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