(12-28-2017 05:01 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  

(12-28-2017 03:19 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  

(12-28-2017 02:54 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  

(12-28-2017 02:50 PM)GSUALUM17 Wrote:  

(12-28-2017 02:33 PM)Crump1 Wrote:  I am not overthinking it. I have spoken to a lot of people who have done it and I know there are drawbacks to having an urban campus. College towns have bar hopping too and the bars are full of mostly college students while parents often prefer a bit smaller town for their child's first time on their own. Most of the larger urban schools just don't draw the same support from the community either or at least it isn't visible because of everything else going on. It's why schools like SMU, UNT, FIU, UAB, etc. don't draw well at all despite having FAR more potential customers an supporters in the immediate vicinity.

Man you are all over the place! lol. Are you arguing about recruiting or attendance smack?

Not sure why you cannot follow along but I don't know how long you have been following these things. Attendance and community support are a big part of recruiting. We are getting further into the weeds of the differences in an urban campus and a college town now. As you said facilities, coaching, prestige are all factors as well. No one thing is going to be the sole determinant for recruiting success and winning is naturally the biggest factor no matter where you are located.

It isn't "smack". It's just how the world works.

I can agree that recruits have various priorities with different degrees of emphasis. I can't agree that rural campuses are just simply better than urban campuses; both types of campuses have pros and cons.

As you said, winning tradition is the only factor that really matters. So you essentially agreed with my original argument that you may be overthinking about the urban vs rural aspect.
UCF and other AAC "city schools" seems to be doing just fine.

Agree on the pros and con's with urban vs semi rural, suburban or rural, (most college towns are not considered rural btw), but GT has an actual urban campus your interpretation of campus for GaSt is stretching at best...Nobody outside of GSU people consider that area GSU's "campus". I will check it out again but last time I was down in that area I just happened to look up to see a GSU logo on a building if it was not there you would never know you were on GSU's "campus". With the development of the stadium area that will look more like GSU's actual campus than the loose collection of buildings on the other side of 75/85 and 20.

lets see.....since I spent a lot of summers in Manhattan, closest example I can describe is NYU and Columbia in NYC. In Manhattan downtown, the New York University's buildings are merged in the fabric of everything else; you can't really tell where NYU starts and ends, but you know that downtown is dominated by NYU infrastructures, faculties, and students. In contrast, like Georgia Tech, Columbia in uptown is more isolated within the confines of brick walls; indeed, they have a pretty little campus that seems to ignore the busy NYC life right outside the walls. Both NYC and Columbia are fine academic institutions. Yet, no one in the North have negative perceptions toward the NYU's campus (or Boston U or Georgetown) for being interwoven with the surrounding urban environment.

People just need to get out of the mindset that "traditional campus is a necessity for quality 4-year universities." Just throw that prejudice away guys! lol. I think some people have trouble with erasing the stereotype that college campuses must be isolated from the world.