well maybe HD isn't as far off as I thought.  I guess I always hear about a guard from Cali going to Kansas or one of the Carolina schools (or a NYC kid ending up at Kentucky or the like) and it's clouded my logic.  My intuition says elite schools should be able to recruit cross-country somewhat effectively, but guess that would be hard to program.  At lower D1 tiers, maybe it is more local than I realized.  Guess I'll have to be more observant of this in real life to see if HD is realistic enough.

Posted by reinsel on 5/20/2011 9:28:00 AM (view original):
Recruiting is pretty local in real life.  My school, Wisconsin, pretty much recruitings WI/MN/IL just like in HD, though they get some guys from random places like Arizona every once in a while, which is unlike HD.

Just once, and he's not all that good.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.  Ryan Evans bugs me.

Posted by jdno on 5/20/2011 9:49:00 AM (view original):
well maybe HD isn't as far off as I thought.  I guess I always hear about a guard from Cali going to Kansas or one of the Carolina schools (or a NYC kid ending up at Kentucky or the like) and it's clouded my logic.  My intuition says elite schools should be able to recruit cross-country somewhat effectively, but guess that would be hard to program.  At lower D1 tiers, maybe it is more local than I realized.  Guess I'll have to be more observant of this in real life to see if HD is realistic enough.

I think you also have to remember that real life budgets are not limited at major programs.  UNC can bring a kid in without worrying about its budget.  So from that perspective, I do think it's much easier to recruit nationally in real life.

One person coaching 2 teams in the same world isn't exactly realistic either.