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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 546907" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>First, Ann Arbor is rural? It didn't look at all like a small town when I was there.</p><p>You did mention Miami, USC, and Texas (all in good sized cities). But, to an earlier poster's point, there are a couple of things going on</p><p>1. The larger universities in the US are where they got huge tracts of land where land was cheap (and often just given by federal funding/bond issues to the university). There are some exceptions like Stanford where someone funded a university in or around a large city.</p><p>2. Aside from some places where State U is in the capitol (Tallahassee, Austin, etc.), a lot of the state "keystone" schools also got put into small towns because rural legislators had the "we're not letting anything else go to the big city" attitude (Arizona, etc.). (A reminder that the capitol of New York is Albany and not NYC, because of rural legislators--state capitols often end up being small towns because of rural legislators).</p><p></p><p>There are a lot of explanations for why the "big programs" aren't in big cities without having to say that young players would prefer to be in rural areas. If the University of Alabama were in Birmingham, I don't think any of their recruits would say "Birmingham is too big, I don't want to go there".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 546907, member: 282"] First, Ann Arbor is rural? It didn't look at all like a small town when I was there. You did mention Miami, USC, and Texas (all in good sized cities). But, to an earlier poster's point, there are a couple of things going on 1. The larger universities in the US are where they got huge tracts of land where land was cheap (and often just given by federal funding/bond issues to the university). There are some exceptions like Stanford where someone funded a university in or around a large city. 2. Aside from some places where State U is in the capitol (Tallahassee, Austin, etc.), a lot of the state "keystone" schools also got put into small towns because rural legislators had the "we're not letting anything else go to the big city" attitude (Arizona, etc.). (A reminder that the capitol of New York is Albany and not NYC, because of rural legislators--state capitols often end up being small towns because of rural legislators). There are a lot of explanations for why the "big programs" aren't in big cities without having to say that young players would prefer to be in rural areas. If the University of Alabama were in Birmingham, I don't think any of their recruits would say "Birmingham is too big, I don't want to go there". [/QUOTE]
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