WildBill
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Sparty has a beautiful campus compared to Michigan (not that Michigan's is bad). It's actually in a great location, midway between Detroit and Grand Rapids. Wasteland is Mount Pleasant (CMU) and north.
I have been to MSU's campus, its nice. Still its East Lansing, if you they don't have Izzo how do you sell that community to a top recruit that isn't from Michigan? I've been to Lawrence and seen KU as well. Like a traditional midwest college town, lots to be said about that for students and even retirees. But its not a place i'd expect inner city kids or kids who have been going through the system of club teams and/or private high school programs that they go travel around playing games. If not for those coaches and their proven success getting kids to the NBA, they aren't going to get many kids to go there.