Dixon offered by ASU?

[thebin]

Healy- they are both very big schools. What on earth do the extra undergrads at ASU offer Dixon? I disagree that Pitt's vastly superior academic reputation (19th public nationally vs 3rd tier public) isn't a much bigger factor in recruiting than a merely big vs massive student body. I think size is only a detriment when the kids you are recruiting are afraid they won't be able to fit in. Clearlyn 17,000 undergrads is plenty for that not to be a problem.

That leaves us with athletic bugets. Well if you go back to what I said originally....of course more money is the only reason Dixon would leave. So that actually speaks to my point. It has nothing to do with some unverifiable notion of ASU just being a bigger sports school just because its a large state school, even though its a FAR less succesful program in a FAR lesser league. I ain't buying that. Of course its money.

[SFHoya99]

"What on earth do the extra undergrads at ASU offer Dixon?"

From what I've seen of Tempe, about seven thousand tons of silicon.

[thebin]

bigdog said:

I simply don't understand why everyone from everywhere doesn't want to live in California. Between the "no place on earth could possibly have anything more to offer than this" attitude, the earthquakes, the flooding, the wildfires, the landslides, the water rationing, the traffic, the pollution, and the cost of living, what more could anybody want?

Cue Randy Newman.

Big Dog...I don't think California is the best place in the States to live. I'll take NYC for one ( I did after school) or Boston barring that over SD or SF. . But compared to Phoenix, a place like San Fran, SD, or yes, even ghastly LA, is friggen Valhalla.

And the earthquakes thing is pretty tired. People in California actually worry less about earthquakes in year than people in Chicago worry about freezing their balls off in a single January afternoon. To a lesser extent, ditto the floods, (midwest anyone?) mudslides (which affect about .00001% of homes) and water rationing (never happened to me or anyone I know in 10 years of living there.) And traffic, pollution and cost of living? Please. You do know LA isn't the whole state right?

[HoyaSox04]

thebin said:

Big Dog...I don't think California is the best place in the States to live. I'll take NYC for one ( I did after school) or Boston barring that over SD or SF. . But compared to Phoenix, a place like San Fran, SD, or yes, even ghastly LA, is friggen Valhalla.

And the earthquakes thing is pretty tired. People in California actually worry less about earthquakes in year than people in Chicago worry about freezing their balls off in a single January afternoon. To a lesser extent, ditto the floods, (midwest anyone?) mudslides (which affect about .00001% of homes) and water rationing (never happened to me or anyone I know in 10 years of living there.) And traffic, pollution and cost of living? Please. You do know LA isn't the whole state right?

Arizona doesn't have a washed-up, man-boobed former juice monkey for its Governor, however.

So they got that going for them... which is nice.

[SFHoya99]

bigdog said:

I simply don't understand why everyone from everywhere doesn't want to live in California. Between the "no place on earth could possibly have anything more to offer than this" attitude, the earthquakes, the flooding, the wildfires, the landslides, the water rationing, the traffic, the pollution, and the cost of living, what more could anybody want?

Cue Randy Newman.

There's lots of great places to live.

Phoenix, however, is Los Angeles without any of the good parts.

[HoyaTejano]

I thought the Ivies had pretty healthy athletic budgets.

ASU is a mid-level Pac-10 school with a $16M budget. Amazing.

[jerseyhoya34]

Dixon leaning toward Dry Hawaii State University, Pitt Lowballing by $100K
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