Honestly, do they have more "resources"??? Well, this is the same fanbase that believes the big 10 is their destiny and that Lawrence is a suburb of KC so...
lol, no, not even close. The harder to recruit to Manhattan is also hilarious to me. They legit think a kid from Dallas would seriously think Lawrence is some metropolis and Manhattan is a cow town. Like those grain elevators in Lawrence don't exist. These people have never been outside of Kansas or Missouri. To the rest of the country there's little to no difference between Manhattan and Lawrence.
Yup, really it boils down to them thinking about how great it is as a 30/40/50/60 year old living and working in KC and going to larrytown for a game is convenient vs a 18-22 year old leaving lawrence to go to KC for *pick a thing*. The thing is the kids do not care nor have the money/time/care or willing to take the risk to go to what, Westport, PNL, the Crossroads for the evening? or better yet the salt iguana in corinth square?
The answer is hell no. Any college kid is going to stay in that town and hit up the bars and babes down the street, which renders "being somewhat close to KC" such a dumb thing to recruit on. I remember all my friends from my high school in Wichita who went to ku saying they never went to KC, why would they? It's a drive, nd now they gotta either have a place to stay or a dd to get them back, a logistics mes, or just be dumb and get pulled over with a dui partying there, and plus, all their college friends are guess what, back in Lawrence.
Long way of saying mir is 100% right, no kid from anywhere outside the kc metro is going to care at all, afterall, it's not like Tuscaloosa, or Clemson, or Auburn, or Baton Rouge are hurting recruiting while Miami, UCLA/USC, and Rutgers are just wiping the floor with the competition year in and year out.