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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 5102724, member: 874"]
You don't hear that because that's where the recruiting hotbeds are. They're well aware of their own weather. And most people from the south can't imagine dealing with what CNYers consider a mild winter, so it matters to some extent. Many have literally never shoveled snow, much less owned a snowblower. The idea of having even 50 inches of snow throughout an entire winter blows their minds.

There is a reason that "snowbirds" exist and a reason retirement communities exist in droves in Arizona and Florida. Most people like to escape the cold. You may not be one, but lots of people are. Kids often dream of going to the beach, and in the south you're a day's drive or closer from the Gulf of Mexico or the Carolina coast. Kids down here are outside riding bikes, playing sports, and going to the playground year round. And we don't have weeks of mud pit back yards after the snow melts. When we get a snow storm here like the one last winter with a whole 10 inches of snow (a once in a generation event in Knoxville), everyone gets excited for a day or two then by day three they complain that they want it gone. Imagine those people in CNY.

Should weather be the main reason an athlete picks a school? Probably not. It's up to each individual, though. I assume Fran points out that there are many more important things, and, as Michigan has shown, you can find great athletes that don't mind, or even prefer, the cold. People like you that complain about somebody expressing a preference for something other than CNY weather probably make it a bigger deal than the people that actually say they don't like the weather.
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