WSU is very much like KSU, Manhattan is bigger than Pulman but not vastly different. I graduated from KSU and my daughter attends WSU now. Was watching K. Lopina 2 weeks ago at the end of the UCLA game. The Cougs are absolutely horrible. The Cougs recruiting disadvantages are quite possibly the only BCS team with worse conditions than KSU.
you've got to be 13 years old and never been anywhere outside the state.
Lubbock, Stillwater, Lawrence, Columbia, Ames....all small compared to Austin, College Station, Waco, Boulder..... and have a ton of "disadvantages".