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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 4347870, member: 1559"] I can't speak for other sports, but I can speak to golf. If you are a high school kid in the Northeast and want to improve your golf, you go to IMG or one of the other golf academies so you can play year round. Junior golfers in the Northeast hope for a southern school to look at them, but it rarely happens unless you perform well at the AJGA events and are willing to travel south for tournaments. And, the top Northeastern high school golfers that have performed and been noticed are already going to southern or western schools. Michael Thorbjornsen, who is from Massachusetts and won the US Junior Amateur and came in 4th at the Travelers this year, left Massachusetts and went to IMG, but returned to his high school for senior year. He is now at Stanford. When it comes to golf, UConn is a good regional program that is hampered by poor weather and it is not a place to develop professional golfers. [/QUOTE]