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Message: [QUOTE="Kemba Time, post: 5103348, member: 2962"] I’m torn here. This is a fantastic article about UConn basketball. The whole idea that UConn is next to a field of cows in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do is so played out though — and much less accurate with everything that has gone up around campus in recent years. There are 30,000+ students who go to UConn every year and aren’t there because Dan Hurley and Geno recruited them (well, not directly anyway). I’m no Rhodes Scholar, but I got accepted at several national public universities and chose UConn because a world built entirely for 18-22-year-olds is as good of a college experience as you can have anywhere. And that was before Downtown Storrs and many campus upgrades that have given students more options. Again, I get it. It’s the easy narrative and mostly true when talking about the glamour of what basketball recruits are choosing between. But anyone who isn’t being recruited by Hurley or Geno isn’t exactly running to send in their application after reading that intro, and they’re missing out on a magical, amazing place that I and just about anyone I’ve met who graduated from UConn would go back to in a second if given the chance (and probably get to celebrate multiple national titles while there). [/QUOTE]