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[QUOTE="BlueMAB, post: 1771696, member: 920"]
I've tried to make sense of the recruiting footprint for years, and it still doesn't hold water.  Miami, Texas, and Florida don't need Rutgers in the B12, ACC or SEC to go into NJ and recruit players.  Penn St and OSU didn't need them in the B1G, to go in there and recruit players.  If anyone has it, I'd like to see the data showing they got any sort of bump in NJ after adding RU.

A school like Texas and Oklahoma can come into CT to recruit and it's not just UConn they'll be challenging.  It's Michigan, Penn State, and (unfortunately) BCU, Saracuse, and some other programs.  The argument is Houston opens up new recruiting ground?  Does UT have difficulty recruiting Texas?  Does Oklahoma?  Kansas struggles recruiting because they've been terrible for decades, not because they don't get to play 2 games in Cincinnati every 4 years.

I'd be surprised if a player picked Texas over Michigan because it came down to playing against UConn twice in his career.  I guess it could happen, but in the list of factors driving realignment, this has to be near the bottom.
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