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[QUOTE="Moontan, post: 868406, member: 166"]
Some private schools have a clear advantage over others, be it:
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[*]Location - weather/recruiting (Miami, USC)
[*]Tradition (Notre Dame)
[*]Religious affiliation - larger national fanbase (Notre Dame, BYU, and to some extent Baylor)
[*]Recruiting hotbed (Miami, USC, TCU)
[*]Location - local economy & employment market (Stanford, Northwestern, USC, Vandy?, TCU?, BCU?, possibly Duke. Syracuse used to have some of this as some alums stayed local. SMU does as well, though the death penalty changed everything)
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The rest have a somewhat tougher row to hoe... Tulsa, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Tulane, Rice?

Of the 17 private schools, those not in a power conference (other than BYU) could be facing tougher times to attempt to be competitive on the gridiron. Those would be Rice, SMU, Tulsa and Tulane. One more blip on the conference re-alignment front and there won't be anything to differentiate the AACk (which will be housing 3 of those private schools) from the old C-USA.
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