I would like to think we have better facilities then them, and we are in about the same location.
I was Thinking the same thing dude????I would like to think we have better facilities then them, and we are in about the same location.
We are from a lower population area and recruit against mostly teams who are hundreds of miles closer to recruits and we are not an elite elite academic university. They recruit against schools in the same geographic area as them. We have also not had an easy enough schedule yet to really have a breakout year until this year which is going to be our worst year under CPR.
Not really buying the academics argument. Why doesn't Harvard, Vanderbilt, etc. have great football teams? Stanford is the only elite football program lately with great academics and they were terrible before Harbaugh.
The location argument is kind of a bad excuse too. We are only 5 hours away from them. There are plenty of Chicago kids that go to Iowa State.
Not really buying the academics argument. Why doesn't Harvard, Vanderbilt, etc. have great football teams? Stanford is the only elite football program lately with great academics and they were terrible before Harbaugh.
The location argument is kind of a bad excuse too. We are only 5 hours away from them. There are plenty of Chicago kids that go to Iowa State.
Notre Dame sucks.I'm not a fan but Notre Dame played for the National Title last year.
The location argument is kind of a bad excuse too. We are only 5 hours away from them. There are plenty of Chicago kids that go to Iowa State.
Not really buying the academics argument. Why doesn't Harvard, Vanderbilt, etc. have great football teams? Stanford is the only elite football program lately with great academics and they were terrible before Harbaugh.
The location argument is kind of a bad excuse too. We are only 5 hours away from them. There are plenty of Chicago kids that go to Iowa State.
First, selling the north side of Chicago is much easier than selling Ames.
Second, winter in Illinois is the same as Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, etc, etc, etc. Winter in Iowa is much different than winter in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas.
Third, Illinois produces more FBS talent than Iowa. Plus they get exposure in Ohio, Michigan, and Pennslyvania. We don't get exposure in any of those states. We have to travel farther to get our recruits.
So it is not a bad excuse. It is a fact.
Why is the north side of Chicago better than Ames?