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[QUOTE="Shrmdougluvr, post: 1530878, member: 396"]
I guess the most basic point I "appreciate" from his post is that Syracuse is not sexy destination, speaking strictly from a geographic perspective.  That's true.  But I don't agree at all that we can't compete with Miami and Georgia Tech simply because we dont have the beach or a big metro city.

The best liberal arts college in the Country is Williams.  Anyone ever been there?  Small town.  Nothing to do locally.  No easy way to travel there.  Not particularly a great looking campus, classically speaking.   Yet kids from all over the World apply and covet to go to school there, when they could just as easily get into Pomona in suburban LA (great weather), or Davidson (Charlotte metro area).  Why is that?

Geography may be a factor, but its not something that can't be overcome.

To me, a bigger factor is SU's fall in academic status.  I get it that most of these kids playing college football are not on their way to being Rhodes Scholars, but when the most talented go to factories to take "History of TV" and "turf management," its nice to attract the upper tier brighter kids (you know the ones winning at Stanford and Northwestern and now heading to Duke as well."  Academics used to be a recruiting tool.  Now we are well behind schools like BC, UNC and Georgia Tech, and can't even claim any high ground over schools like PSU, Rutgers, UCONN, etc.
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