Posted by miami_jefe on 8/4/2015 10:56:00 PM (view original):
Posted by mccarthyizm on 7/31/2015 10:05:00 PM (view original):
Valdosta State has the best proximity to FL. Western New Mexico is closer to SoCal than Humboldt State. I think D2 comes down to where the humans are. You can win anywhere in D2 in my opinion.
I think you hit it on the head here. It comes down to where the humans are. At D3 Colorado, I've had human D2 coaches coming down and getting the quality recruits. But yeah, in the final analysis, you're right. It depends where everyone else is.
This is also why I think people's opinion of Humboldt varies. I was there for a stretch of 4-5 seasons where there were no humans in the pacific northwest or New Mexico. I might have been limited to the west due to the ocean, but I felt like I controlled all of CA, OR, WA, NEV, HI. My game planning was not very good and I was in the semi-finals 3 years in a row in fairly short order. Recruiting felt like cheating.