I tend to consider it a double-edged sword.

by KGB, Belly o. the Beast, Wednesday, February 25, 2009, 11:06 (6299 days ago) @ ReginaldVelJohnson

ND being a national school gives it a larger territory from which to draw recruits, but it also leaves us with a smaller home base where we can expect to land the top players on a regular basis. Northern Indiana doesn't provide much of a pipeline. Chicago helps, but Indy does jack squat for us due to the miserable academic performance of its most bountiful schools.

The wider geographic dispersion also makes coordination of the recruiting effort more of a challenge, and I suspect that it is also a greater burden on our coaches to recruit with larger areas to cover resulting in more travel time. It can be done effectively (and has at times under Weis), but it's definitely more of a chore.