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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5334596, member: 12088"] I can’t imagine actually going to this or any other pep rally. Too old for anything that loud. And I have no interest in watching a broadcast of anything other than the player intros. All the rest is for the players and the students to enjoy, not folks like me. One thing that strikes me in your remarks is the aspect of recruiting out-of-state students for a rural campus. ‘College’ has evolved a lot over the last half century. It used to be that urban campuses had an advantage because there were lots of things to do off campus within walking distance. Nowadays the areas around urban campuses are a bit of a wasteland for students — either catering to an older crowd or the areas around campus are too gritty to be safe. I focus on out-of-state students because they are more dependent on finding resources nearby than the local kids are, especially at breaks and holidays. And lots of our recruits are not local. Our daughter went to Haverford and found it turned into a ghost town at those times, and if she didn’t feel like paying to fly home she’d be stuck practically camping out in an empty dorm. No services running on campus and no useful shops nearby. Anyway, the point is recruits do need to get a chance to see this sort of thing too, if they haven’t already seen it on their official visit. [/QUOTE]