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>>In cities like Los Angeles and Miami you don't need
>impressive
>>facilities to get a kid to come there.
>
>there's obviously a lot more to recruiting then proximity to
>glamour locales.
>
>SC's and miami's advantage is more about being centrally
>located in fertile recruiting grounds rather than SC being a
>30 min drive w/o traffic to beverly hills.
>
>the idea that only rural schools need nice facilities to land
>recruits doesn't make any logical sense nor is it supported by
>anything that's happening in recruiting in 2021.

because without them its just another dry ass college town with nothing to do.

Most kids from SoCal and FL would rather star at schools close to home but local competition pushes them elsewhere.