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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2722738, member: 1526"] Lawrence is a small city of 90,000+. It's also about 40 miles from Kansas City. Storrs is closer to Hartford than Lawrence is to KC. There's plenty to do in a city of 90,000, so it shouldn't be necessary to drive from Lawrence to KC for something to do. Storrs offers little in after hours things to do. If you grew up in a metropolitan area, Storrs is a boring place to spend four years if you have to live there 24/7 every week of the school year, and you have no wheels. I had a car on campus and could go anywhere anytime I wanted to. Without that, I would have gone crazy being there all the time. I'm pretty sure Kingston, RI is the smallest town in the country with a flagship state university. Hurley got some pretty fair recruits to spend four years in Kingston, so he's got far more to sell now, despite the relative lack of local, typically urban night life that recruits can experience in most other college towns and cities. To me, if our prospective recruits are more concerned about the local nightlife than their playing careers, do we really want those kind of players? We should do fine on the recruiting trail with Hurley and our staff. [/QUOTE]