We recruit a lot more players from Atlanta than from South Bend and I would suspect there are more camps etc in Atlanta than South Bend.
Everything you said is correct.
But consider this. In south Bend he is a tankful of gas away from Brenan Vernon, Sonny Styles, Tengesdahl and Padilla, Dante Moore, Kadyn Proctor, Mack Markway, Christian Gray, and Hoosiers: Bowen, Lauck and Gilbert. Game day, school day, watching football players shoot buckets, talking to coahes, neighbors and janitors.'
But my point was different. Connections and inside info matter, and proximity and schmoozing matter for connections.
Solely because I played buckets at the convo with Greg Blache, I was built into the recruiting of Ross Browner, and why the staff
preferred him to Gary Jeter
and why they were confident they would land him.
When you have lunch with folks, see them at Meier's or at a liturgy they feel more comfortable with sharing stuff from inside the coaches' rooms. And these days, with the size of the staff and all these GAS and personnel, there are a lot of great "leak" sources. it ain't the Pentagon, less security than.
The more inside info you have the better you are able to triangulate an opinion..
Again, everything you said is accurate..