Just for the record, who here is a giant dumbass and believes that Frank would not be able to recruit better at Miami. Show of hands please...would like to know who to mock openly to their faces.
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yeah, agree. don't see any reason to think he would recruit better.
There's no way it isn't a hell of a lot easier to convince an 18 year-old kid to go to Coral Gables than to Manhattan, KS. He'll be able to keep kids that he now loses simply due to location and also be able to attract local players that aren't available here.
I'm with chum. eff Sys and MIR.
You cannot be effing serious and suggest that it's no hard to recruit a south florida kid to KS than to a FL school. That's stupid. It makes no sense.
You're being really irrational and illogical, so before I treat this talking point like it came from ednksu or bookcat, you need to explain where the hell you're going with this point. Certainly you see the evidence and history isn't on your side, so I gotta know where the hell you're going with this.
You're much smarter than this, I don't think chum is.
Here's my thinking on this....
If you look at how well Frank has done historically recruiting South Florida, and you look at the number of quality players that are coming out of South Florida right now (
http://sfhighschoolsports.com/blog/basketball-boys-blogs/south-florida-players-ncaa-tournament) it defies all logic to suggest that at a BCS school in the most lavish location in South Florida would not be easier to recruit to than KSU.
Now, this argument is also based on the notion that Frank was able to recruit to KSU when we had no facilities, he had no recognizable name (yet), and we had a fine tradition of sucking the sweat off a dead man's balls.
I am of the opinion that given Franks' now "national name," he could get a greater proportion of South Florida targets than he currently gets today at KSU. I'd liken it to Howard Schnellenberger...before Howard, they were "giving football tickets away at Burger King" at Miami.
Even a decade ago, when Hamilton was winning at Miami, South Florida wasn't as prolific as it is today...it's a "boom" time for the area, is it not?